President Biden made a statement on Tuesday defending his son Hunter and claiming Hunter didn’t commit a gun-purchase crime that the US attorney in Delaware reportedly is considering charging.
Biden simply stated, “Hunter is on the straight and narrow now. He has no connection to their accusations of committing gun-purchase.”
CNN host Jake Tapper asked Biden to give his first public response to reporting last week by the Washington Post that the FBI believes there’s enough evidence to charge Hunter, 52, with tax fraud and lying on a gun-purchase form by denying his drug use.
“Personally and politically, how do you react to that?” Tapper asked Biden, whose own involvement in his family’s overseas dealings will be a top focus of Republicans if they retake Congress in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.
“Well, first of all, I’m proud of my son. This is a kid who got, not a kid, he’s a grown man. He got hooked on, like many families have had happen, hooked on drugs. He’s overcome that. He’s established a new life,” Biden told Tapper. “He is, I’m confident that he is, what he says and does are consistent with what happens. And for example, he wrote a book about his problems and was straightforward about it. I’m proud of him.”
“He came along and said, by the way, this thing about a gun, I didn’t know anything about it. But turns out that when he made an application to purchase a gun, what happened was he say, I guess you get asked, I don’t guess, you get asked a question, are you on drugs or do you use drugs? He said no. And he wrote about saying no in his book,” Biden added.
Biden then concluded, “So I have great confidence in my son. I love him and he’s on the straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now. And I’m just so proud of him”
A Hollywood attorney associated with Hunter Biden, recently paid the IRS about $2 million in back taxes on foreign consulting income in an effort to head off criminal charges, though doing so does not absolve the crime of non-payment.
Critics say the potentially limited charges against Hunter Biden would be a best-case scenario for the Bidens.
“Neither prosecutors nor the press have seemed interested in pursuing allegations of criminal or corrupt practices by some members of the Biden family. Now we have this FBI leak,” George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley wrote last week. “Those charges may be the best-case scenario for the Bidens and many others in Washington. Indeed, the reported narrow scope of the indictment is strikingly similar to what I previously described as the ideal ‘controlled demolition’ of the scandal.”
Authorities have said they are considering bringing charges against Hunter Biden for money laundering and illegal foreign lobbying, but the status of those inquiries remains unclear.
Republicans say that President Biden was involved in his son’s business dealings, resulting in either corruption or conflicts of interest in his pursuit of foreign affairs.
While vice president, Joe Biden attended with his son a 2015 DC dinner whose guest list included Russian billionaire Yelena Baturina and her husband, ex-Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov.
Baturina is one of a dwindling number of Russian oligarchs yet to face US sanctions over Russia’s seven-month-old invasion of Ukraine. She paid $3.5 million in 2014 to a Hunter Biden-linked firm.
At that same dinner, documentation proves Joe Biden met with an executive from the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden up to $1 million per year to serve on its board as his VP father led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy.
Also a picture was taken at the dinner venue showing Joe Biden and his son with a trio of the then-second son’s Kazakhstani business partners.
Hunter Biden reportedly still owns a 10% stake in the Chinese investment fund BHR Partners, which is controlled in part by Chinese state-owned entities. Hunter Biden co-founded BHR in 2013, about two weeks after flying with his father to Beijing aboard Air Force Two. While in Beijing, Hunter introduced his dad to BHR CEO Jonathan Li. Joe Biden later wrote college recommendation letters for Li’s son and daughter.
Republicans say Biden is too soft toward China on a variety of issues, including on Chinese exports of fentanyl, which drove a record 107,000 US drug overdose deaths last year. Biden also rarely mentions an interest in determining the origins of COVID-19, which killed more than 1 million Americans after possibly leaking from a Chinese lab.
At his 2020 impeachment trial for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens, then-President Trump’s defense team cited visitor logs that showed Joe Biden met with his son’s partner Devon Archer in 2014 around the time both Hunter Biden and Archer joined the Burisma board.
Since his father became president, Hunter Biden launched an art career seeking as much as $500,000 for his novice works. The White House developed a plan for those sales to be “anonymous” to theoretically prevent possible influence-peddling. Hunter received at least $375,000 last year for five prints at a Los Angeles art show attended by one of his father’s ambassador nominees, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti. It’s unclear how many additional sales he may have made.
This is like going after Al Capone for unpaid parking tickets. Joe will give him a pardon that covers all crimes named or unnamed.
Still covering for your baby boy huh Joe!!
If this had been one of Trump’s sons instead, the FBI and the MSM would have crucified him long ago! Of course, Republicans have always been held on higher standards.
Democrats will NEVER be held accountable for their actions.
The Comander and Idiot is backing his son, whom he (The Big Guy) has participated in all his felonies, and the Media is silent. We can’t allow this dirty, lying media to attack conservatives and allow this selective (Democrat) silince to ever happen again, we have to destroy the media, along with the Democrats to have any justice ever again.
When their covering any situation , they should be ran off by any means neccessary. We should have their homes and families targeted, alomg with thier corporate advertisers and parent companies. We need to fight back NOW.
fucknuts Biden says a lot of things. All of which are lies!