“The president and the first lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will have no further comment,” the White House reacted on Tuesday about Hunter Biden, Joe Biden’s youngest son, fighting with justice.
Hunter Biden, son of the US president and a recurring target of the Republican opposition, admitted his guilt in two federal cases that concern him: a case of tax evasion on the one hand, and on the other of having violated the law when buying a firearm. in 2018 while he was a drug addict, the prosecutor in charge of the case said.
Former President Donald Trump, who is fighting for justice in a series of cases, estimated in a reaction on his “Truth Social” network that Hunter Biden had only received a “banal fine for violating the highway code” and affirmed that the judicial system It was broken”.
The youngest son of the US president – the eldest, Beau, died in 2015 of brain cancer – described his addiction problems, particularly to crack, in a book published in the spring of 2021.
It recounts the first drama of his life, the death of his mother and his little sister in a car accident in 1972.
Beau and Hunter, still very young, were seriously injured in the accident, which happened just after Joe Biden was elected senator from Delaware.
“My son did nothing wrong”
The Democrat later remarried Jill Biden, with whom he raised his two sons and had a daughter. In his book, Hunter Biden, a former lawyer and businessman turned artist, also claims that he has now turned away from alcohol and drugs.
The US president, a candidate for the 2024 elections, has always publicly supported him and said he was “proud” of him in particular during a heated debate that pitted him against Donald Trump before the 2020 presidential election.
Joe Biden also rejects allegations of corruption by the Republican parliamentary opposition. The latter accuses Hunter Biden of having done dubious business in Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was vice president of Barack Obama (2009-2017), capitalizing on the networks and the name of his father.
“My son hasn’t done anything wrong,” he said in an interview with MSNBC last May. “I trust him,” Joe Biden added.
Source: BFM TV
