Hunter Biden arrives at court for jury selection in federal gun case against him in Wilmington, Delaware, after the collapse of a deal with prosecutors
US president Joe Biden’s son Hunter has arrived at court for jury selection in a federal gun case against him after the collapse of a deal with prosecutors that would have avoided the spectacle of a trial so close to the 2024 presidential election.
The US leader said: “I am the president, but I am also a dad. Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today.”First lady Jill Biden arrives ahead of Hunter Biden’s trial at a federal court in Wilmington, Delaware. Photograph: AP Biden has pleaded not guilty and has argued he is being unfairly targeted by the US justice department, after Republicans decried the now-defunct deal as special treatment for the Democratic president’s son.
Hunter Biden is also facing a separate trial in California in September on charges of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes.Both cases were to have been resolved through a deal with prosecutors last July, the culmination of a years-long investigation into his business dealings. He is also protective: Hunter Biden was with his father all weekend before the case began, biking with his father and attending church together.
Prosecutors are hoping to show Hunter Biden was in the throes of addiction when he bought the gun and therefore lied on the forms. They have said they are planning to use as evidence his published memoir, and they may also introduce contents from a laptop that he left at a Delaware repair shop and never retrieved.
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