First son Hunter Biden was indicted Thursday in Delaware by special counsel David Weiss on three counts related to lying about being addicted to crack cocaine when he bought a gun nearly five years ago — two days after House Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry into President Biden’s role in Hunter’s foreign business dealings.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and Hunter, now 53, could face additional criminal cases in DC and Los Angeles for tax fraud and illegal foreign lobbying, among other potential counts.
The first son is accused of lying about his drug use on a gun purchase form in 2018, when he bought a Colt Cobra revolver during a period when he admitted in his 2021 memoir “Beautiful Things” that he was abusing narcotics.
“Hunter Biden knowingly made a false written statement on the Form 4473, intended and likely to deceive the dealer,” Weiss’ office said, and then “during an 11-day period between Oct. 12 and Oct. 23, 2018, Hunter Biden possessed a firearm while knowing he was an unlawful user of or addicted to [drugs], in violation of federal law.” The gun was disposed of in a trash can behind a food store on the latter date by first daughter-in-law Hallie Biden, who was married to Hunter’s brother, Beau, until his death in 2015 and then dated Hunter.
“That’s one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden’s committed, and ironically that’s the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into,” House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) told reporters outside the Capitol.
“So, we’ll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president’s son’s committed.”
Comer added that the case would “absolutely not” cause House Republicans to change course on their impeachment inquiry and urged Weiss to bring indictments “for money laundering, violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act [FARA], tax evasion, the list goes on and on.”
House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), who is spearheading the impeachment inquiry into the president, told reporters outside the Capitol that the gun charges needed to be followed by other indictments.
“That’s one of about a dozen crimes that Hunter Biden’s committed, and ironically that’s the one crime that he committed that you cannot tie Joe Biden into,” Comer said.
“So we’ll see what happens with the other 11 or so crimes that the president’s son’s committed.” --->READ MORE HERE
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Hunter Biden’s lawyer said Thursday that the federal gun charges filed against the first son are politically motivated and barred by an agreement he reached with prosecutors earlier this year.
The comments from lawyer Abbe Lowell followed Hunter Biden’s indictment on three counts: one for being an illegal drug user in possession of a firearm and two for lying about his drug use on a federal background check form when buying a handgun.
Mr. Lowell blamed partisan political interference by Republicans.
“As expected, prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case. The evidence in this matter has not changed in the last six weeks, but the law has, and so has MAGA Republicans’ improper and partisan interference in this process,” he said in a statement.
Mr. Lowell was referring to a recent decision by a federal appeals court in New Orleans declaring that drug use alone should not automatically prevent someone from obtaining a gun. However, the decision is not binding in the Hunter Biden case because the court issuing the decision — the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — does not apply to Delaware.
The statement reiterated previous claims by Mr. Lowell that a plea deal Hunter Biden reached with prosecutors to resolve gun and tax charges was still in effect. --->READ MORE HERE
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