OnPolitics: Hunter Biden indicted on gun charge
Hello OnPolitics readers. Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, has been indicted on a federal gun charge.
Didn’t that already happen? The move comes less than two months after a plea agreement fell apart over tax and gun charges, Paste BN’s Bart Jansen reports.
The president’s son is charged with knowingly deceiving a firearms dealer when he bought a gun in 2018. He is also charged with falsely filling out a federal firearms form denying he was addicted to any narcotics. Hunter Biden has since acknowledged he was using drugs at the time.
Biden was supposed to plead guilty in July to two misdemeanor charges for not filing taxes in 2017 and 2018, which he has since paid. He was also set to enter a pretrial program for a gun charge, but the plea agreement fell apart in court.
GOP response: Republicans have long criticized the plea agreement as a "sweetheart deal." And they didn’t stop after the deal crumbled. Three House Republican chairmen sent a letter to Biden’s lawyers asking for documents related to the plea deal.
Read more here: Hunter Biden indicted on federal gun charge for allegedly lying about drug addiction
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