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.
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.
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.
He has testified in the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton and the two impeachments of former President Donald Trump.
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.
Attorney Jonathan Turley stated on Saturday that Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, recently faced a “devastating take-down” in court in relation to his federal gun case.
In Delaware, Hunter Biden is being prosecuted on three federal gun charges, to which he has entered not guilty pleas. The allegations center on the president’s son’s October 2018 federal form-buying handgun purchase, during which he allegedly lied about using drugs.
The following Friday, U. S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika denied a number of motions submitted by Hunter Biden’s attorneys seeking to have the gun charges against their client dismissed. Among the arguments made was that the president’s son was being unfairly singled out for prosecution on the advice of Republicans.
After his client’s arraignment in October of last year, Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, stated, “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.”.
David Weiss, the special counsel for the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the person leading the prosecution of Hunter Biden, pointed out in a recent document that other accused parties did not compose “a memoir in which they made countless statements proving their crimes and drawing further attention to their criminal conduct.”. ****.
Hunter Biden wrote about his lifelong battle with alcohol and drug abuse in his memoir Beautiful Things, which was released in 2021.
As “patently false” in the filing, Weiss also rejected a number of Hunter’s arguments in the case, in what Turley called “a devastating take-down of Hunter’s claims” in an opinion piece that was posted on his website on Saturday.
The United States appointed the special counsel. s. From the Biden administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland. In 2017, the then-President Donald Trump nominated him to be the U.S. s. lawyer for Delaware’s District.
To get more information, Newsweek emailed the attorney for Turley and Hunter.
Turley teaches at George Washington University Law School and works as a legal analyst. Both former President Donald Trump’s two impeachments and the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton saw him testify. As a result of Hunter’s legal battles, Turley has become a prominent critic.
Noreika wrote in her decision on Friday that the prosecution of Hunter Biden was an act of the Biden administration: “Defendant’s claim is effectively that his own father targeted him for being his son, a claim that is nonsensical under the facts here.”.
“The Executive Branch that is prosecuting the defendant was led by the defendant’s father at all relevant times and continues to be so, regardless of whether Congressional Republicans attempted to influence the Executive Branch or not. There is no proof that they were successful in doing so. “.
