The sudden new indictment of Hunter Biden could spell trouble for President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, with at least one legal analyst predicting the president is going to have a difficult time squaring the alleged crimes with his years of denials that his son committed any crime.
Jonathan Turley, a professor at George Washington University, told Sean Hannity on Fox News late Thursday that special counsel David Weiss’s latest charges “shatter years of denials” by President Biden related to his son’s drug addictions and business activities.
Weiss earlier in the day charged Hunter with three counts each of evasion of a tax assessment, failure to file and pay taxes, and filing a false or fraudulent tax return. The 56-page indictment, which covers alleged crimes committed in California, builds on earlier tax and firearms charges that Weiss brought in Delaware.
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“The fact is that this is a circle that is getting tighter around the president,” Turley told Hannity. “It is clear that the president has lied. He obviously lied during the first campaign when he said he had no knowledge of these dealings. Hunter himself contradicted that….
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