The Department of Justice has reached an agreement with the wayward son of the president of the United States, Hunter Biden. He will plead guilty to three crimes in exchange for avoiding his imprisonment, according to a judicial document registered this Tuesday, an arrangement that will surely have an impact on his father’s re-election options and that has not gone down well with the Republican bench. . Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has spoken of double standards in the application of justice.
Biden has reached an agreement after years of investigation and months of conversations with the Delaware Prosecutor’s Office handling the case. Two of the crimes for which he will plead guilty are for tax fraud after failing to pay rent in the years 2017 and 2018, a situation that he later amended. The third is in connection with the purchase of a gun in 2018 during a period in which he was addicted to drugs. The Prosecutor’s Office will not charge him if Biden controls his addiction for 24 months and never buys a weapon again.
The agreement must be approved by a federal judge and the president’s son must appear in federal court in Delaware in the coming days to be arraigned and plead guilty to the tax fraud charges.
“With the announcement of two settlements between my client, Hunter Biden, and the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware, I understand that the five-year investigation into Hunter is resolved,” Biden’s attorney Christopher Clark said. The president and the first lady, for their part, sent a brief statement on the matter through a White House spokesman, Ian Sams, assuring that “they love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will have no more comments”.
Biden, 53, always a controversial figure and difficult for his father to handle, would thus avoid the fearsome imprisonment and would emerge unscathed from a long investigation. It opens, yes, a more than presumable political battle for the agreement. McCarthy has already pointed out that the story calls for an investigation by his party and that the Justice Department should not withhold information about the case based on the fact that it is an open investigation.
He believes that there is a clear double standard after the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump for the case of the classified papers retained in his Florida mansion. “If you are the president’s main political opponent, the Justice Department is literally trying to put you in jail. But if you are the president’s son, you get special treatment,” said the spokesman for the conservatives in Congress.
Not only McCarthy has reacted to the agreement. All the Republican presidential candidates have done it, including Trump, who used his social network, Truth Social, to attack the Biden government. Biden’s corrupt Justice Department just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere traffic ticket. “Our system is BROKEN!” he wrote.
It is the latest chapter in a complicated trajectory, from his alleged shady dealings to his ties to drugs, alcohol and prostitution. His own ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, shared in a book published in June of last year what it was like to live with his addictions and his constant lies. “I found hundreds [of credit card charges] at liquor stores and strip clubs,” she wrote. “The whole time he told me that he was healthy and sober, and that I was crazy.”
Then there’s the matter of the laptop that he went to a store in Delaware for repair and never picked up. Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer at the time, said he had obtained documents from that computer showing that Hunter Biden entered $11 million from a Ukrainian firm accused of corruption, although he has never been formally charged.
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