The outgoing President alleged that the prosecution of his son was politically motivated and a “miscarriage of justice.”
President Joe Biden, left, and his son Hunter in the Oval Office of the White House on July 24, 2024.
It caps a long-running legal saga for the president’s son, who publicly disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020—a month after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Biden said. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.”
He was set to stand trial in September in the California case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. But he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges in a surprise move hours after jury selection was set to begin.
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