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A lawyer for Hunter Biden said it was “not inevitable” that the investigation into the U.S. president’s son would go to trial, blaming federal prosecutors for failed plea talks last month.
In court documents filed Friday, prosecutors said the administration had reached an “impasse” with Hunter Biden and that the Justice Department “now believes that the case will not be resolved without a trial.”
But in an interview with CBS on Sunday Facing the whole countryHunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, disputed that claim.
“It’s not inevitable,” Lowell said. “We’ve been trying to avoid that. The prosecutors who came up to us also said, is there a solution other than prosecution? So, they want it, maybe they still want it.”
Last month, Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay taxes in 2017 and 2018 and admitting to lying about his drug use when he bought a gun in 2018. But the deal fell apart after a judge questioned how the deal would work. Relating to waivers for potential future charges.
Prosecutors “changed their decision on the spur of the moment,” Lowell said Sunday. He also argued that David Weiss, a Trump appointee who has been investigating Hunter Biden for years and was named special counsel in the case on Friday, should not have brought any new criminal charges against his client. accused.
“I believe that if this prosecutor looked at the facts, the evidence and the law, as he has done for the past five years, the only conclusion would be the July 26 conclusion,” Lowell said. “No new evidence has been found. “
The failure of the plea deal has brought Hunter Biden’s long-running legal woes back into the spotlight, threatening to jeopardize his father’s re-election bid. Despite mounting legal troubles of his own, Donald Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican nomination, has relentlessly attacked Hunter Biden in an attempt to damage his father.
“Wes has been investigating Hunter for four years and gave him the ‘sweetheart’ deal of all the sweetheart deals,” Trump said on his social platform Truth Social on Saturday. “But a brilliant Delaware The judge saw through it all.”
House Republicans have also called for a hearing with Weiss.
“This action by the Biden DOJ cannot be used to impede congressional investigations or whitewash the corruption of the Biden family,” House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said in a post on social media site X on Friday. “If the sweetheart deal Weiss negotiated couldn’t be approved, how can he be trusted as a special counsel?”
“House Republicans will continue to pursue the facts for the American people,” he added.
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