A reporter asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about potential criminal charges against Hunter Biden.
On Thurdsay, federal agents who have been investigating Biden for possible tax and gun crimes said there may be sufficient evidence to charge him. Given this, a reporter asked the press secretary Friday, while on Air Force One, if President Joe Biden still stood by his previous comments in which he claimed his son did nothing wrong and if he had concerns about these details.
Jean-Pierre responded in typical White House fashion, dodging the question, saying, “as you know this is an ongoing investigation being handled independently by the Department of Justice, so I would refer you to the Department of Justice.”
Biden had an investigation opened into him in 2018 by the Federal District of Delaware after he allegedly dodged his taxes in 2015 and lied on a firearm application. The president’s son submitted an application in 2018 to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms where he claimed he did not unlawfully use any substances.
However, Biden’s memoir, released in 2021, contradicted that statement when he revealed he used crack cocaine “every 15 minutes” at the time he purchased the firearm. Biden may have violated 18 U.S. Code § 922, a law prohibiting an individual from making a “false or fictitious oral or written statement” or for an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” to obtain a firearm.
The Internal Revenue Service placed a $112,805 lien on Biden in 2015 while he served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings. Biden paid a “significant” amount in back taxes in late 2020, The New York Times reported.
He also potentially violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), requiring “certain agents of foreign principals who are engaged in political activities … to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal.” Biden and his business partner Tony Bobulinski allegedly texted about setting up to avoid FARA.
Then-candidate Joe Biden defended his son during a Democratic presidential debate in October 2019, claiming “My son did nothing wrong” and saying he “[rooted] out corruption” in Ukraine.
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