Hunter indicted, 3 gun charges -- (edited)
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Sep 14 '23, 10:53
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Hunter Biden Indicted on Gun Charges
The Justice Department charged President Biden’s son after the collapse of an earlier plea deal and amid an impeachment investigation by House Republicans.
By Michael S. Schmidt and Glenn Thrush
Sept. 14, 2023, 1:39 p.m. ET
Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was charged on Thursday by federal prosecutors with lying about his drug use in connection with his purchase of a handgun in 2018, a move that could put him on trial next year as his father runs for re-election.
The decision to file criminal charges against President Biden’s troubled youngest son was an extraordinary step for the Justice Department and the lead prosecutor on the case, David C. Weiss, whom Attorney General Merrick B. Garland named as a special counsel last month. Mr. Garland gave Mr. Weiss that status after the last-minute collapse of a previous deal that would have resolved the long-running investigation without Mr. Biden serving prison time.
The collapsed deal also would have resolved an investigation into Mr. Biden’s late filings of his tax returns for several years. Prosecutors did not file tax charges against Mr. Biden on Thursday but could still do so. Mr. Weiss’s team has also signaled that it continues to investigate other elements of Mr. Biden’s business activities, most likely including whether any of his work with foreign interests violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires disclosure of lobbying activities for other countries.
The three counts lodged by prosecutors in the gun case were related to whether Mr. Biden had lied on a federal government form that he was required to complete when he purchased a handgun in Delaware in 2018. In response to a question on the form about whether he was using drugs, Mr. Biden had said he was not — an assertion that prosecutors concluded was inaccurate.
The indictment comes as House Republicans are stepping up their efforts to use Hunter Biden’s work abroad to build a case for impeaching his father. And it puts the Biden Justice Department in the remarkable position of prosecuting cases against both the president’s son and former President Donald J. Trump, the current front-runner for the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nomination.
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So Joe Biden has weaponized the DoJ against his own son. Got it.
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Jovian
Sep 14, 11:51
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'He wound up possessing the gun for 11 days, and during that time “he purchased and used crack cocaine regularly,” the filing continued' -- nm
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decline
Sep 14, 11:36
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What about DeeDee McCall? -- nm
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Dano
Sep 14, 11:17
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Between Trump's Multiple Felony Convictions and a Biden's Plea Deal, It's Hard For These Swing Voters to Figure Out Which Candidate Is The Real Criminal -- nm*
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NYT Pitchbot in a year
Sep 14, 11:17
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LookING forward to the "if they can charge him, they can charge you" calls from the GOP. -- nm
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TWuG
Sep 14, 11:15
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So conservatives will now be pushing for harsher penalties for gun possession charges. Got it.
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howie
Sep 14, 11:13
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ok -- nm
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Qale
Sep 14, 11:12
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I am trying to think what my perspective would be if Erik or Don Junior were the ones being charged.
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Beryllium
Sep 14, 11:03
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Glad we set up a special counsel for that. -- nm
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pmb
Sep 14, 10:58
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