https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...rges-rcna39623

Federal prosecutors have indicted Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, on gun charges, court documents show.

Biden was indicted in Delaware federal court on three counts tied to the possession of a gun while using narcotics.

Two counts are tied to Biden allegedly filing a form claiming that he was not using illegal drugs at the time he purchased a Colt Cobra revolver in October 2018. The third count alleges that he possessed a firearm while using a narcotic. The three charges Hunter Biden faces carry a maximum prison sentence of 25 years, when added together.

The historic indictment against the son of a sitting president comes after a plea deal that might have ended a years-long probe into Hunter Biden fell apart and just as House Republicans have launched an impeachment inquiry in an effort to seek bank records and other documents from the president and his son.

The case is being overseen by special counsel David Weiss, who also headed the investigation. Weiss is a Trump appointee who was kept on as U.S. attorney for Delaware because of the sensitive and unique nature of the investigation into a president's son by the Justice Department, a part of the executive branch headed by the president. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland named Weiss special counsel in August, as negotiations over the tax and gun charges collapsed.

Weiss’s investigation was opened in 2018, the year before Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president, according to a source familiar with the inquiry, and focused on the younger Biden’s finances.

The two sides reached a plea agreement in July which called for Hunter Biden to plead guilty in Delaware federal court to two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes in return for prosecutors recommending a sentence of probation. A separate felony gun charge for illegally owning a Colt Cobra .38 Special handgun would have been dropped in two years if Biden honored the terms of what’s known as a diversion agreement.

The agreement started to fall apart at the court appearance where it was expected to be finalized after the judge presiding over the case raised questions about some details. “The agreements are not straightforward and they contain some atypical provisions,” U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika noted, including one that could theoretically protect Biden from other tax-related crimes in the same time period.

Prosecutors said the provision in the diversion agreement would not protect him from different charges, while attorneys for Hunter Biden said it would. Noreika, a Trump-appointed judge, asked both sides for more information, and the agreement — which Republicans were already blasting as a “sweetheart deal” — subsequently fell apart.

In subsequent court filings, Weiss’s office noted that without the plea agreement in place, there were venue issues and the case would most likely have to go to trial in California or Washington, D.C. Prosecutors also suggested that they might bring different charges in the new case.

Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell, meanwhile, argued the diversion agreement is still in effect because it had already been signed by his client and prosecutors and said it “prevents any additional charges from being filed against Mr. Biden.”

“We expect a fair resolution of the sprawling, 5-year investigation into Mr. Biden that was based on the evidence and the law, not outside political pressure, and we’ll do what is necessary on behalf of Mr. Biden to achieve that,” he said last week.

Prosecutors dispute that the agreement is in effect, arguing it lacks a necessary signature from the probation department.

Attachments to the plea agreement and the diversion agreement that were filed in court blamed Biden’s conduct in the tax and gun cases on his drug and alcohol addiction. The documents say that he got sober in May of 2019, and with the help of a third-party paid off about $2 million in back taxes and penalties by October of 2021.

The White House has been largely silent on the investigation, but the president defended his son in an interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle on May 5.

“First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,” the president said. “I trust him. I have faith in him.”

Asked by Ruhle how charges against his son would impact his presidency, Biden said, “It impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”

Hunter Biden told CBS News in a 2021 interview that he was “cooperating completely” with the federal probe. “And I’m absolutely certain, 100 percent certain,” he said, “that at the end of the investigation, I will be cleared of any wrongdoing.”

Will Biden pardon him?

Here's the actual indictment:https://www.scribd.com/document/671292965/Indictment#Political suicide if he does. GOP attack ads write themselves

He could have a long time ago if he wanted to. But apparently the Biden Administration doesn't just automatically pardon people connected to them like the previous administration.

I wonder what occupies Phil68's mind the most: Trump, kids, or goats.

How the heck do they prove addiction in 2018? (I only read the first count) - but still … really?

Edit: all the counts have to prove he was addicted in 2018.

LMAO, good luck.

Go eat another pizza, fat boy. Adults are currently talking.

5+ years of hearing about Hunter Biden and this is what we got.

The "prosecution" is being led by the same guy who wanted to let him off and slip in immunity for other unrelated crimes into the sweetheart plea deal they almost snuck by a judge.

A new plea deal will be struck and he'll see no jail time. Bookmark this

Drip drip

I’m ready for all these crooks and swindlers to gtfo.

That's an excellent point..i bet you're gonna be correct lol. Srs

Lock him up!

They're testing the waters to see how far they have to throw Hunter under the bus until the public is satisfied that justice was served so they don't have to keep investigating the corruption angle, much more serious charges of which Hunter and most likely Joe are guilty. Sentence him to 25 years, put him in prison for a year then pardon him after the election? Is that enough for everyone to look the other way and get distracted by something else?

In b4 nothing happens

And why might a prosecutor not want to take this to trial? Maybe because it’s a weak case. Prosecutors do this ALL the time. Seriously, good luck proving - beyond a reasonable doubt - Hunter was addicted in 2018. Some pictures of him using drugs aren’t going to cut it.

If you can’t convince 12/12 randoms from Delaware that in 2018 Hunter was, to a moral certainty, addicted to an illegal drug - pffffh he gets nothing and never can be tried again over it.

Documented videos and pics of him smoking crack all of 2018 on his laptop. Where have you been?


What happened to all the tax charges? Did they run the clock out on those?


Who gives a fuсk about a gun charge?

Bill Clinton pardoned Roger Clinton.

There's like video evidence dude. Time stamped at that

We need pardon reform. Presidents should not be able to unconditionally pardon family members or administration associates.

I would have loved to party with Hunter Biden. Rock, Crys, and 4/10 whores...those must have been some wild week long benders back to back to back...

Of these charges, the gun charges are far more important. Lying on a gun permit application? Buying guns high on crack? These are critical parts of the background checks that Iwantthe government to throw the book at people for violating. The more effective we are at keeping dangerous or unstable people from getting firearms, the less cause there is to push for restrictions on the guns themselves. No one should get a pass or plea deal for violating these laws.

The most serious crimes are those related to corruption and bribery, which weren't part of the original deal or this indictment and are still being stonewalled. That is the ultimate goal here. Do whatever possible to keep the serious issues hidden in the shadows.

They made Donald trump guilty for rape of an ugly woman from years ago with 0 proof.

I only have one account.

Trump was found guilty of rapein a civil trial?



You really are phucking retarded.

When have I ever defended the Bidens? The only thing I ever defended the Bidens over is the retarded p3do-and-tranny-obsessed-cult CT that Joe Biden is actually molesting children on camera during photo ops in the WH. Otherwise, he's still a corrupt dementia patient and terrible president.

They made him pay out for rape in a civil trial with 0 proof.


You feel better now?

Woah, 0 proof? You should be Trump's lawyer and get this straightened out. Thinking you can be found guilty of rape in a civil trial definitely makes you qualified to be a Trump lawyer.

Why did Trump lie about now knowing her? Why did Trump say she is not his type then said he thought she was his wife (when shown a picture of him with her)?