Washington DC, USA.- Republicans loyal to Donald Trump have attacked President Joe Biden following the Hunter Biden verdict and have repeated the former President’s claim that the Justice Department has been treating the President’s son leniently, while Trump has been treated leniently. treated harshly.
Capitalizing on the attention surrounding Hunter Biden’s guilty plea over allegations that he lied about his drug addiction when he filled out a form to buy a gun, Republicans have been making false or disproven claims that Joe Biden, when he was Vice President , promoted the business interests of his relatives abroad.
“Remember, this was the same corrupt Joe Biden Justice Department that tried to negotiate immunity unrelated to this case,” said Elise Stefanik, a Republican representative from New York and a contender to be Trump’s running mate.
“Today is the first step in holding the Biden crime family accountable.”
In a deal reached with prosecutors last year, Hunter Biden was to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax crimes in exchange for not being prosecuted for the gun purchase as long as he stayed out of trouble with the law for two years. But the agreement fell apart when the judge, who was appointed by Trump, questioned aspects of the agreement and lawyers were unable to resolve the matter.
JD Vance, Republican of Ohio and another candidate to be Trump’s running mate, shared a post by Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno that the accusations over the gun purchase sought to “isolate and protect” the President.
Trump’s campaign issued a statement saying the verdict was “nothing more than a distraction from the true crimes of the Biden crime family.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson said the verdict was “appropriate” and does not refute his criticism that there has been unequal treatment of Trump and the Bidens.
“Every case is different,” Johnson said. “And here the evidence was overwhelming. I don’t think that was the case in the Trump trial, and all the charges brought against him were obviously for political purposes. Hunter Biden’s case is completely different.”
The charges against Hunter Biden stemmed from a dark chapter in his life, as he himself has acknowledged, following the death of his brother from cancer in 2015.
The jury found him guilty of lying to a gun dealer when he bought a gun in 2018 by filling out a form saying he did not use drugs. He illegally possessed the gun for 11 days.
Separately, Hunter Biden will go on trial in California in September on allegations that he evaded paying $1.4 million in taxes, and Republicans have indicated they will continue to investigate him in their stalled effort to impeach the president. President Biden has not been accused of any wrongdoing by prosecutors investigating his son.
Biden emphatically ruled out the possibility of pardoning his son in an interview with ABC News last week. On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did not rule out the President commuting or reducing the sentence, leaving the verdict intact.
Hunter Biden’s guilty plea comes just weeks after Trump was found guilty by a New York jury of 34 counts related to payments to a porn actress to suppress unfavorable news during the 2016 election campaign. Trump has falsely said that that verdict was “rigged.” In the case against Hunter Biden, President Biden has said that he accepts the ruling against his son.
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