Lawyers representing Hunter Biden, who has been embroiled in scandal, recently issued a fresh public complaint, claiming he is the target of politically motivated prosecutions. This move seems to be a final attempt to sway his father, President Joe Biden, into granting him a pardon, the NY Post reports.
Abbe Lowell, one of Hunter’s chief legal advocates, revived his long-standing accusations that the two criminal cases facing the 54-year-old Hunter have been driven by external political forces aiming to damage the President. According to Lowell, Republicans have sought to exploit Hunter’s situation to politically undermine his father.
“This is a seven-year saga propelled by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to hurt his father,” Lowell stated in a comment about the public statement, which was first disclosed by the Washington Post.
Lowell went on to describe the ordeal as a disturbing and cautionary tale. “It is a wild and terrifying story that serves as a stark warning of what is to come as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to resume power and have stated their intention to use the government’s vast power to pursue their perceived enemies,” he said.
Hunter Biden pled guilty in September to nine charges connected to defrauding American taxpayers out of $1.4 million in taxes. This occurred despite his legal team’s assertions that the prosecution was politically motivated. At the time, the judge overseeing the case remarked that Hunter could face as much as 17 years in prison and penalties amounting to $1.3 million in fines.
Additionally, in June, a jury convicted Hunter on three charges related to firearm possession while he was addicted to drugs. He is scheduled to be sentenced for the gun-related charges on December 12 and for the tax violations on December 16.
The White House has firmly ruled out any potential pardon or clemency for Hunter Biden. President Biden has spent time with his son over the Thanksgiving holiday in Nantucket, but his administration has repeatedly answered no when asked about a pardon. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made the administration’s stance clear, saying, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no.”
Hunter’s legal team recently released a new document titled “The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden,” which spans 52 pages and is described by Lowell as a comprehensive “reprehensible history of the political persecution of Hunter Biden.”
The memo argues that a system meant to protect against abuses of power instead allowed political leaders to corrupt the process. “A system that is supposed to protect against abuses failed to do so and was corrupted by political leaders in this country,” the document asserts.
It further claims that Hunter faces unusually harsh sentences for offenses that typically result in more lenient outcomes, citing his mistakes made during a period of severe drug addiction. “As a result, Hunter faces significant sentences for felonies and misdemeanors far beyond precedents of others committing less serious offenses or where civil resolutions or consent judgments are normally sought — all on the basis of his mistakes, made while in the throes of serious drug addiction,” the memo continues.
The memo includes a timeline detailing how allies of former President Trump searched for damaging information on Hunter and revisits the failed plea deal from the summer of 2023. During that court session, a judge revealed a significant gap between the prosecutors and the defense regarding whether Hunter would be granted broad immunity.
At that time, many Republicans criticized the plea agreement as a “sweetheart” deal and accused prosecutors of being overly lenient.
Regarding the gun charges, Hunter’s defense team contended that one of the accusations typically only applies to people with prior felony convictions or those caught with multiple firearms.
Prosecutors had gathered an extensive body of evidence against Hunter, partly due to his laptop and his memoir, “Beautiful Things,” which detailed his struggles with crack addiction. During the proceedings for the gun case, prosecutors even played excerpts from Hunter’s audiobook in court.
Hunter’s defense team also emphasized that he had fully paid his overdue taxes with interest and penalties in 2021, more than two years before any charges were filed. He received assistance from his wealthy benefactor, Kevin Morris, also known as his “sugar brother.”
The first son has argued that his guilty plea was made to spare his family further public scrutiny and humiliation. “The impact that the extraordinary and improper events described have had on Hunter and his family is obvious,” his lawyers remarked in the new memo.
They also claim that the role of partisan politics in the decision-making process of what should be an impartial judicial system extends far beyond Hunter’s case. “However, the effect that partisan politics can have on what is supposed to be an independent prosecutorial decision-making process extends beyond Hunter’s case,” the document states. “Politics’ outsize role reveals a new page in the playbook of politicizing investigations and prosecutions.”
Ironically, many of President Biden’s allies had dismissed similar accusations made by Donald Trump, who claimed to be the victim of politically motivated prosecutions by the justice system.
Despite Hunter Biden’s critical remarks about Trump supporters, whom he referred to as a “fascist minority,” and his comparison of the president-elect to a dictator, Trump has left open the possibility of pardoning him. “I wouldn’t take it off the books,” Trump remarked on conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt’s show. “There’s no question about it, he’s been a bad boy,” Trump said about Hunter. “All you had to do is see the laptop from hell. But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.”
{Matzav.com}