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Last week, The Washington Post reported that federal investigators in Delaware looking into Hunter Biden were referring his case for prosecution on a number of crimes, one of which was that he allegedly lied on a federal gun buying form about his addictive use of narcotics. Lying on the form is a felony. But according to NewsNation’s new primetime poster child Chris Cuomo on Tuesday, it wasn’t a big deal because everybody supposedly does it. Does he have a personal reason for doing so?
Denouncing reporting about a leaked 2018 voicemail from an emotional Joe Biden to Hunter, from after when Hunter bought the .38 caliber handgun, Cuomo suggested viewers shouldn’t fret about lying on federal Form 4473 because it was no big deal:
It's not really about Hunter Biden's gun application, is it? Lying and buying. When it comes to gun applications, especially when it's about whether someone is going to tell the truth about using illegal drugs, lying and buying is not uncommon.
“If anything, this voicemail is proof that our system, or even our gun buy system, is inherently flawed,” Cuomo added.
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