Hunter Biden’s Attorneys, Ahead of Sentencing, Decry ‘Political Prosecutions’ of First Son, Signaling the President Should Issue a Pardon

‘The prospect that Trump will turn his vengeance on the Special Counsel prosecutors if they fail to take a harder line against Hunter no doubt exerts considerable pressure on them not to let up on Hunter,’ Biden’s defense writes.

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Hunter Biden departs from a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, file

Hunter Biden’s attorneys are making a last-minute public defense of the first son just days before he is due to be sentenced in two different federal criminal cases, calling the prosecutions of Biden politically motivated. The defense — in a not-so-thinly veiled call for a pardon from the defendant’s own father — also says these two cases could be just the beginning for President Biden’s only son with President Trump set to return to the White House. 

The document, titled “The Political Prosecutions of Hunter Biden,” is 52 pages long. It was first reported by the Washington Post. 

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