President Biden’s son faces two federal cases in June involving a gun purchase and allegations of tax evasion.
By Matt Viser and Tyler Pager, The Washington PostPresident Biden and his son Hunter at this year's White House Easter Egg Roll.
The legal vise tightening around Hunter Biden has also aggravated tensions between White House advisers and Hunter Biden’s legal team, and it has renewed concerns over how and whether some of Hunter’s lawyers will be paid. Those close to the Biden family worry that, after years of relative stability in his life as a recovering addict, Hunter now faces the real possibility of a federal conviction that could result in a prison sentence.
Rarely in the history of the presidency have political drama and personal anguish converged in this way: An aging president who has lost two children faces the trial of a third during perhaps the most important month of his reelection campaign. Biden has in the past cleared his schedule during key moments involving his son, such as when Hunter Biden was set to plead guilty last July - an agreement that ultimately collapsed, leading to the upcoming trials. The president has generally tried to avoid commenting on the ongoing investigations, but he has also declared his son’s innocence. “My son did nothing wrong,” Biden said during a presidential debate in October 2019.
U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Delaware last week issued a scheduling order setting up the gun purchase trial to begin on June 3, rejecting attempts by Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell to push it back. Judge Mark C. Scarsi, the judge in California, has indicated that the tax case will also move forward as planned, with the current schedule providing for it to get underway on June 20.
The trials come after Hunter Biden has weathered a lengthy investigation by House Republicans, who complained that he improperly benefited from his father’s position when Joe Biden was vice president - and that the elder Biden benefited from his son’s business dealings. But Republicans have struggled to present any direct evidence and have largely dropped their impeachment plans.
That case is fairly straightforward, attorneys on both sides say, and the president’s son has already admitted to using drugs during this period. Prosecutors have even submitted passages from Hunter Biden’s own memoir as evidence of his addiction.
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