{"id":2031846,"date":"2023-09-14T14:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-criminally-charged-by-special-counsel\/"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:06:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T18:06:11","slug":"hunter-biden-criminally-charged-by-special-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-criminally-charged-by-special-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Counsel files criminal charges against Hunter Biden."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhunter-biden-criminally-charged-by-special-counsel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2031846&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>President\u200d Joe Biden&#8217;s\u200d Son Hunter Biden\u200d Criminally Charged<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s son \u2062 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden was <a title=\"Stacey Abrams Cheers 7.7 Million Registered Voters Ahead of January Run-Off \u2014 REPUBLICANS LEFT LOOKING INEPT AND STUPID\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-cheers-7-7-million-registered-voters-ahead-of-january-run-off-republicans-left-looking-inept-and-stupid\/\">criminally charged<\/a> on Thursday, after efforts \u2063to reach a plea deal failed, leading to the first \u2062ever prosecution of a sitting president&#8217;s child.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The indictment filed on \u200dThursday U.S. District Court in Delaware with three \u200c<a title=\"Ex-Fugees Rapper \u2018Pras\u2019 Found Guilty On Charges Involving International Conspiracy Between China And U.S. Gov\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-fugees-rapper-pras-found-guilty-on-charges-involving-international-conspiracy-between-china-and-u-s-gov\/\">criminal counts related<\/a> to gun possession.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment brought by recently elevated U.S.\u200c Special Counsel\u200d David Weiss comes after a deal for <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden, 53, to plead guilty to two misdemeanor \u2064tax charges and enroll in a\u2064 program to avoid \u2063prosecution on a <a title=\"Special Counsel files criminal charges against Hunter Biden.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-criminally-charged-by-special-counsel\/\">gun-related charge collapsed<\/a> in a\u200d stunning turn in a July hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The charges ensure\u2064 that\u200c courtroom drama will \u2063play an outsized \u2062role in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign\u200b as Biden, 80, \u2063seeks reelection in a likely rematch with his Republican predecessor Donald Trump, 77,\u2063 who faces four upcoming criminal trials.<\/p>\n<p>Weiss was elevated to <a title=\"Hunter Biden plea: Comer lauds IRS whistleblowers, Raskin takes aim at Trump in Oversight hearing.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-plea-comer-to-praise-irs-whistleblowers-in-oversight-hearing-while-raskin-targets-trump\/\">special\u200b counsel status<\/a> in August\u200b after investigating <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden&#8217;s business dealings for years as the U.S. attorney \u2064in\u2064 the\u200b Democratic \u2063president&#8217;s home state of Delaware. Weiss was originally\u2062 nominated by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Biden for years has been the focus of unrelenting attacks by Trump and his Republican allies who have accused him of \u200cwrongdoing relating to Ukraine and China, among other matters.<\/p>\n<p>Committees in \u200bthe Republican-led U.S. House \u200cof Representatives for\u200c months have been probing <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden&#8217;s foreign business dealings. Some \u200dparty \u2063hardliners are pushing for \u2062an impeachment inquiry into President Biden.<\/p>\n<p>While Republican lawmakers have\u2062 collected testimony\u200b that Joe Biden at \u2063times joined calls\u2063 with his\u2064 son&#8217;s business associates, \u2064they have yet to\u2063 produce \u2063evidence that the president \u2064personally\u200d benefited.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden disclosed in December 2020 that Weiss&#8217;s office was investigating \u2063his tax affairs. He has denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p>While most U.S. attorneys appointed by Trump were asked to step down when \u200bBiden took office in January 2021, as is routine, the Justice Department \u200basked Weiss to\u2063 stay \u200bon.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department&#8217;s inquiry has itself come under scrutiny from Republicans after\u200d whistle-blowers from the \u200dInternal Revenue Service\u2064 assigned to the\u200c investigation told\u2062 Congress that the department slow-walked the probe and limited Weiss&#8217;s ability to bring charges. Weiss has denied the \u2062claims.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden never held a position in the White House or on his father&#8217;s \u200dcampaign. The president has\u200b said he has not \u200d<a title=\"NY Post reveals FBI's knowledge in Burisma bombshell, adding to Hunter's tough day.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-burisma-bombshell-breaks-ny-post-adds-to-hunters-very-bad-thursday-by-informing-world-what-fbi-knew\/\">discussed foreign business dealings<\/a> with his son and has\u2062 said his\u2062 Justice Department\u200c would\u2064 have independence in\u200c any investigation\u2062 of \u2062a \u2064member \u200dof his \u2062family.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and other Republicans have alleged\u2062 what they \u200ccalled conflicts \u200cof interest \u2064from <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden&#8217;s \u200dposition\u200b on the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma at the time his father was\u200c vice president to Democratic \u200dPresident Barack Obama. Trump in a July 2020 \u200bphone call with Ukraine&#8217;s\u2063 president asked him to have\u200d his government\u2064 open an investigation into Joe \u200dand <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden in the lead-up to that year&#8217;s U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic-led House of Representatives later voted to impeach Trump on\u2063 charges of abuse of power and\u2063 obstruction of\u2063 Congress stemming from \u2064these efforts, though the Senate ultimately voted to keep Trump\u2064 in office.<\/p>\n<p>Trump during the 2020\u200c election\u2062 campaign \u200ccalled for\u200c China to investigate\u2064 <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden&#8217;s involvement in a\u200d fund that\u2064 sought to raise Chinese capital. Trump accused <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden of using his position \u2062of\u2063 influence to \u200csecure China&#8217;s\u2064 financial \u200cbacking for his investments, though never \u2062provided evidence to support \u2063this claim.\u200b <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden has denied wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> \u2064Biden described in a 2021 \u2064memoir dealing with substance \u200dabuse issues \u200bin his life including crack \u2064cocaine use\u200c and alcoholism. He was\u200d discharged from the U.S. Navy\u200b reserve in 2014 after,\u2064 sources said at the time, testing \u2063positive for cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>The Weiss inquiry \u2063initially examined potential violations of tax\u200b and money\u2063 laundering \u200claws in \u2062foreign \u200cbusiness dealings, principally \u200din China, sources told Reuters.\u200c The investigation headed\u200c by Weiss \u200cbegan as early as 2018, according to \u200cU.S.\u200d media reports.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden initially\u200d agreed to plead guilty to \u2064charges that he failed to pay \u2064more than $100,000\u2063 in income\u200b taxes in 2017 and 2018. The deal collapsed \u200bafter a federal judge questioned\u200d whether the agreement would bar prosecutors \u2063from\u200d bringing charges\u2064 on other issues.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2063 has two surviving children, <span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden and daughter Ashley Biden. His \u200dson Beau Biden died in 2015\u2063 of cancer and his daughter Naomi Biden died as an \u2064infant after a car accident that also killed Joe Biden&#8217;s first \u200dwife.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Hunter<\/span> Biden appears to be the\u2064 first child of a sitting president to be indicted, according to \u2064Aaron Crawford, who\u2062 specializes\u2062 in presidential history at the University of\u2062 Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford said the family of several presidents were\u2063 ensnared in scandals, including George H.W. Bush&#8217;s son Neil, who directed a failed savings and\u2062 loan, \u2064and Richard Nixon&#8217;s brother Don, who was rescued from business failures by wealthy businessman Howard Hughes.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting\u2064 by Sarah N.\u2064 Lynch, Jarrett Renshaw\u200c and Andrew Goudsward in \u200cWashington and Tom Hals in Wilmington, Delaware; editing by Scott Malone)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, faces criminal charges as plea negotiations falter. This marks the unprecedented prosecution of a sitting president&#8217;s child. The indictment, filed in Delaware&#8217;s U.S. District Court, includes three counts linked to firearm possession. The charges were brought forth by the newly appointed U.S. Special Counsel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2031847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Special Counsel files criminal charges against Hunter Biden.","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Special Counsel files criminal charges against Hunter Biden.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2031846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2031847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}