The defense team for Hunter Biden, in newly revealed documents, argued that charging the president's son would be 'devastating to the reputation' of the DOJ.
, mostly relating to his fraught tax history. In June, it was announced that a plea deal had been reached by both parties, which would have seen the president's son plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges for not paying his income taxes on time, with a charge of unlawfully owning a firearm as a drug abuser still in play., however, after U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika took issue with the broad immunities that the deal would have granted Hunter Biden in the future.
On Saturday, Politico reported on over 300 pages of previously undisclosed emails and documents pertaining to the tense negotiations between Hunter Biden's defense team and DOJ prosecutors. In one particular exchange highlighted extensively in the report, attorney Christopher Clark threatened to call the president to the stand for his son's defense should charges be brought to trial.
Hunter Biden and President Joe Biden. Newly unveiled documents have revealed the tense back-and-forth between lawyers for Hunter Biden and the Department of Justice , including a threat from the defense team to call the president to the witness stand.
The legal team suggested"constitutional chaos" would ensue if the president was called to testify against a case brought by his own DOJ, something they further said was not justified by the substance of the case. The defense team accused prosecutors of being influenced by pressure from congressional, who have long positioned Hunter Biden's woes as a major scandal undermining his father's political agenda.
because he could be called as a witness in future proceedings about the collapse of the plea agreement he had helped broker.
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