Deal? No Deal? Wanna Bet?

 The news accounts are all pretty much the same.

This is Breitbart quoting MSNBC:

The original plea deal fell apart after the judge questioned if it covered future potential charges of the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation. The prosecution reportedly said the deal did not include any alleged Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) violations.

MSNBC reported the court took a ten-minute recess to determine if the two parties could quickly come to an agreement. When the deal got back on track, reports indicated it would “be more limited in scope,” only including specific charges related to tax and gun wronging. “The two sides have agreed that this deal does not shield him from potential future charges,” CNN reported.

But the judge said she was not ready to accept the plea deal and asked both the prosecutor and Hunter Biden to submit additional briefs, according to reporters inside the courthouse.

Most likely not all true.  Given the slimeball lawyers at DoJ and at Latham, it's more realistic to think that the original deal had a Get Out of Jail Free card in perpetuity for any related violation, or any violations found through ongoing investigation.

But the judge saw it and blew the whistle on both sets of lawyers.  She was smart enough to realize that such a "deal" would have thrown matches into the pool of gasoline.