Lawyers for scandal-scarred eldest son Hunter Biden have released a new public diatribe complaining that he is the alleged victim of “political prosecution.” This is clearly a last ditch effort to seek clemency for his father.
Abby Lowell, one of Hunter's top lawyers, said two criminal cases against the disgraced 54-year-old son are serious as Republicans seek to politically harm his father, President Biden. This dispelled his well-worn claim that he was under intense external pressure.
“This is a seven-year story driven by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to harm a father,” Rowell said in a statement about the open letter, which was first obtained. washington post.
“This is a wild and horrifying story, as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter are preparing to return to power and intend to use the government's vast powers to go after their perceived enemies. “It serves as a stark warning of what is to come,'' Lowell argued.
Mr. Hunter pleaded guilty in September to nine counts of defrauding Americans out of $1.4 million in taxes, despite his defense team's insistence that he was politically charged. At the time, the presiding judge said Hunter could face up to 17 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.3 million.
Additionally, a jury found Hunter guilty in June of three charges related to possession of a firearm while under the influence of illegal drugs.
Hunter is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 in the gun case and Dec. 16 in the tax case.
President Biden and the White House have repeatedly ruled out both a pardon and a pardon for his troubled son, whom he spent Thanksgiving with on Nantucket.
“I've been asked that question many times, and the answer is no,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters after President-elect Donald Trump's victory.
Hunter's legal team's new public memo is titled “Political Persecution of Hunter Biden,” and in its 52 pages, Lowell claims “a complete and reprehensible history of Hunter Biden's political persecution.”
“The system that was supposed to protect us from abuse has failed to do so and has been corrupted by this country's political leaders,” the memo claims.
“As a result, Hunter faces a felony or misdemeanor charge, far beyond any other misdemeanor or precedent for which a civil settlement or consent decree would normally be required. Face it, this is all based on mistakes I made in the throes of severe drug addiction.”
The document details how Trump's confidants sought to find dirt on Hunter, and the judge's day-to-day battle between prosecutors and defense over whether the first defendant would soon receive broad immunity. It also includes a timeline of how the plea deal that collapsed in court in the summer of 2023 was revived.
At the time, a cacophony of Republicans initially denounced the agreement as a “sweetheart” plea deal and publicly accused prosecutors of exonerating him.
Regarding Hunter's gun case, his defense argued that one of the charges was typically used only against individuals with felony convictions or those who possessed multiple firearms.
Prosecutors now have an astonishing amount of evidence against the troubled eldest son, thanks to his laptop and his book Beautiful Things, which details his crack addiction at the time. . Prosecutors played a clip of Hunter's audiobook in court during the hearing of the firearms case against him.
Hunter's attorneys also emphasized that Hunter “paid all delinquent taxes, including interest and penalties, in 2021 over two years prior to his indictment.” He achieved this with the help of his so-called “sugar brother” friend Kevin Morris.
The eldest son claims he pleaded guilty to these charges to avoid exposing his family to “further distress, invasion of privacy and unnecessary embarrassment.”
“The impact that the unusual and inappropriate events described have had on Hunter and his family is clear,” his attorney added in the new memo.
“However, the influence of partisan politics on the independent prosecutorial decision-making process extends beyond Mr. Hunter’s case,” the letter states. “The outsized role of politicians reveals another chapter in the strategy of politicizing investigations and prosecutions.”
Ironically, many of President Biden's allies ignored similar accusations that President Trump was the victim of political prosecution by the judicial system.
Despite being a hunter suggest Trump supporters They are a “fascist minority,” and the incoming Republican commander-in-chief has likened the president-elect to a dictator and left the door open to pardons.
“I'm not going to take it off the books,” President Trump previously told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.
“There's no question about it. He was a bad kid,” he said of Hunter. “All you had to do was look at the laptop from hell. But I happen to think that's a very bad thing for our country.”
