Biden’s 54-year-old son appeared in court in Delaware to fight charges of multiple gun charges that could also land him in jail.
: Joe Biden has expressed his pride and support for his troubled son Hunter as he became the first child of a sitting president to face trial, in yet another historic court case that could shake up the 2024 election.
But as jury selection began on Monday - and after months of political attacks from Republicans over Hunter’s legal troubles - Biden issued a rare public statement on the criminal trial. The president’s statement is emblematic of the delicate balancing act Democrats face when it comes to Hunter Biden, whose father is known to be fiercely protective of his son, to the point that aides occasionally struggle to advise him politically.Hunter is the only surviving son of Joe Biden, who lost his first wife Neilia and their 15-month-old daughter Naomi in a car crash in 1972.
Judge Juan Merchan has set a sentencing hearing on July 11, about two weeks after the first presidential debate and four days before the Republican National Convention. “The magnitude of this decision is not lost on me but at the end of the day I have a job to do. So as much as I don’t want to impose a jail sanction … I want you to understand that I will if necessary and appropriate.”
The Biden-Harris campaign seized on the comments, saying that “yet again, diminished man, white-collar crook, and convicted felon Donald Trump suggested his supporters engage in violence”.Hunter Biden’s trial comes after Republicans spent months investigating a so-far unproven claim that the president profited from his son’s foreign business deals, which included lucrative contracts in Ukraine and China.
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