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Hunter Biden Just Faced ‘Devastating Take-Down’ in Court—Attorney
Published Apr 13, 2024 at 10:25 AM EDT
Updated Apr 13, 2024 at 10:59 PM EDT
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President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden just faced a “devastating take-down” in court regarding his federal gun case, attorney Jonathan Turley said on Saturday.Hunter Biden is facing three federal gun charges in Delaware, all of which he has pleaded not guilty to. The charges relate to the president’s son lying about his drug use on a federal form to purchase a handgun in October 2018.On Friday, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected several motions filed by Hunter Biden’s lawyers in an effort to throw out the gun charges against their client—one of the claims being that the president’s son was being subjected to selective prosecution at the behest of Republicans.”These charges are the result of political pressure from President Trump and his MAGA allies to force the Justice Department to ignore the law and deviate from its policies in cases like this one,” Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, said after his client’s arraignment last October.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden departs a court appearance on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware. Hunter Biden just faced a “devastating take-down” in court, attorney Jonathan Turley said on Saturday.
President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden departs a court appearance on Wednesday, July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware. Hunter Biden just faced a “devastating take-down” in court, attorney Jonathan Turley said on Saturday.
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Department of Justice’s (DOJ) special counsel David Weiss, who is prosecuting the case against Hunter Biden, noted in a recent filing that other defendants did not write “a memoir in which they made countless statements proving their crimes and drawing further attention to their criminal conduct.”Hunter Biden’s memoir titled, Beautiful Things, was published in 2021 and tells the story of his life-long struggle with alcohol and drug abuse.Weiss also dismissed many of Hunter’s arguments in the case as “patently false” in the filing, in what Turley called “a devastating take-down of Hunter’s claims” in an opinion piece posted to his website on Saturday.The special counsel was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland from the Biden administration. He was nominated by then-President Donald Trump in 2017 to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware.Newsweek reached out to Turley and Hunter’s lawyer via email for comment. Read more
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Turley is a legal analyst and professor at George Washington University Law School. He has testified in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton and the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump. Turley has emerged as a vocal critic of Hunter throughout his legal challenges.Noreika pointed out that it was the Biden administration who decided to prosecute Hunter Biden, writing in her decision on Friday: “Defendant’s claim is effectively that his own father targeted him for being his son, a claim that is nonsensical under the facts here.”Regardless of whether Congressional Republicans attempted to influence the Executive Branch, there is no evidence that they were successful in doing so and, in any event, the Executive Branch prosecuting Defendant was at all relevant times (and still is) headed by Defendant’s father.”Hunter Biden’s gun charges trial is scheduled to start on June 3. Meanwhile, he is also facing charges for tax evasion in a case brought on by the DOJ and set to go to trial on June 20. Hunter pleaded not guilty to the tax charges as well.
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