In talks with prosecutors, Hunter Biden's lawyers vowed to put the president on the stand

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

It was Halloween of 2022, and Hunter Biden’s lawyer, Chris Clark, didn’t sound happy. Just three weeks earlier, news had leaked that federal agents believed they had enough evidence to charge his client with illegally buying a gun as a drug user.

The leak was “illegal,” the lawyer wrote to the U.S. attorney overseeing the probe. The prosecution, he argued, would be seen as purely political, and it might even violate the Second Amendment.

Then he issued a warning: If the Justice Department charged the president’s son, his lawyers would put the president on the witness stand.

“President Biden now unquestionably would be a fact witness for the defense in any criminal trial,” Clark wrote in a 32-page letter reviewed by POLITICO.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/19/hunter-biden-plea-deal-collapse-00111974

[BWdem4life]

1. Way. Too. Long.

Kudos to anyone who can actually wade through it - I waved the white flag about halfway.

[ificandream]

2. It's clear that Hunter won't let this case be the political chess piece Repughs want it to be.

And for that I say good one, Hunter.

[louis-t]

3. Why hasn't the NRA leapt to his defense?