Posted on 12/08/2023 6:10:26 PM PST by Libloather
By Brandon Gillespie, Houston Keene, Andrew Mark Miller, Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Paul Steinhauser, Brooke Singman, Thomas Catenacci Fox News
Multiple candidates hoping to replace Joe Biden as president in next year's presidential election pulled no punches Friday in response to the indictment of his son, Hunter, a day earlier.
The indictment, which was handed down Thursday by DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, included nine charges alleging a "four-year scheme" when Hunter did not pay his federal income taxes from January 2017 to October 2020 while also filing false tax reports.
"The timing of the Hunter Biden tax indictment is one more sign that the deep state is planning to sideline Biden & pick a new puppet for 2024, all the while using this indictment as a perfect fig leaf to claim that the Trump prosecutions aren’t politically motivated. Kills two birds with one stone," Republican entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote in a post on X.
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley also a Republican, agreed in her own X post on the timing of the indictment, describing it as a sign of deeper issues within the DOJ.
"The fact that the Justice Department slow-walked the Hunter Biden case despite serious allegations & nearly gave him a slap-on-the-wrist plea deal a few months ago shows how damaged the Justice Dept. has become. We need to clean it out from top to bottom," she wrote, referencing Hunter's plea agreement on two federal tax charges and a gun charge that fell apart in July.
When asked about the indictment during a press gaggle in Iowa, Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he didn't trust the DOJ, and that he was unsure how it ultimately reached the point of the indictment when it did.
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Took 7 people to write this?
IF he is sent to prison, can Secret Service stay in adjoining cell?
I think I heard this on news today, but Hunter won’t have have to answer any questions to Congress about his tax cheating, cuz of new charges.
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