Now the next indictment against an American with a world-famous name has become public, again it is about big politics. This time, the accused is not called Trump, like the former US President Donald J. Trump, who has been accused several times, but Biden. Allegations by the American judiciary are now leveling at Hunter Biden, the son of the current US President Joe Biden, and this case will also continue to heat up the forthcoming election campaign. Although and because Biden Junior, unlike Trump Senior, reached an agreement with his prosecutors in good time.
Hunter Biden, 53, is accused of tax evasion, apparently rightly so. He will plead guilty in this matter, as has been said since Tuesday. First of all, this distinguishes him from Trump, who considers himself innocent in his very different cases. Second, instead of a trial and possible jail time, the confession will probably only get him a suspended sentence. In addition, Biden Junior was caught with an allegedly illegally acquired weapon, which he also admits, this offense is apparently to be compensated for by participating in a purification program.
So does a deal spare the younger Biden worse consequences? A judge has to decide, which is not unusual. It happens again and again that the public prosecutor’s office and the accused come to an understanding. In the Hunter Biden case, however, an agreement is likely to cause some trouble because the presidential candidate Trump and his Republicans believe that this is a rotten compromise to spare Biden’s father, the Democrat and current resident of the White House.
Opponents of Biden accuse him of corruption, but there is no evidence so far
According to the President’s opponents, the Bidens are involved in a much larger conspiracy, massive corruption, with no real evidence to back it up. What is certain is that Hunter Biden got into personal turmoil, especially after the tragic death of his brother Beau, who succumbed to a brain tumor in 2015. He was an alcoholic and a drug addict, and his use of cocaine and crack is no longer a secret.
In 2018, Hunter Biden bought a pistol, model Colt Cobra 38. He concealed his addiction when buying it, otherwise he would not have gotten the gun, two weeks later his girlfriend at the time is said to have thrown it away. By providing false information when purchasing, he broke the law. On the other hand, Hunter Biden did business with a Ukrainian energy company and a Chinese company during Joe Biden’s time as Barack Obama’s deputy – for the Bidens’ adversaries he turned the family name into money.
The Yale lawyer sat on the board of the Burisma holding company in Ukraine. At the time, the group was led by an oligarch suspected of corruption, and Hunter Biden received a high monthly salary. Joe Biden took care of the country for the Obama administration. To date, apparently no solid evidence of a combination of family and political interests has been found, even if Trump is said to have tried to capitalize on investigations before the 2020 election, which he ultimately lost. He even appears to have withheld military aid to Ukraine to urge Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to screen the Bidens.
In addition, there was a laptop from Hunter Biden in 2019, which he had given to a computer specialist in his home town of Wilmington in Delaware and had never picked up again. The notebook ended up with the FBI, Trump’s lawyer at the time, Rudy Giuliani, and other advisors got copies of the data. The thriller became more and more mysterious in this way.
With vague allegations, Republicans are trying to accuse the Biden administration and its Justice Department of double standards in investigations. Trump was recently charged at the federal level in Miami for hoarding top-secret files from his tenure in his Mar-a-Lago residence, showing them to unauthorized persons and only revealing them during a raid. This is one of the reasons why he is facing a hearing. Hunter Biden’s tax and gun case could end up on probation, but probably only legally.