Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, pleads guilty to tax evasion and illegal possession of a firearm

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden and a recurring target of the Republican opposition, has admitted guilt in two criminal cases involving him, hoping to settle the accounts as his father’s 2024 campaign takes shape.

That “puts an end” in the lawsuit against Hunter Biden, 53, his lawyer assured in a statement on Tuesday. “Hunter is committed to owning up to the mistakes made when he struggled in his life with torment and addiction.” “I am very proud of my son”, declared the American president at the beginning of the afternoon.

Federal income tax fraud

The Republican opposition, for its part, denounced a Ministry of Justice which would go after Donald Trump, recently indicted for his management of top secret documents, while working to avoid at all costs a prison sentence for the son of the current president.

Hunter Biden pleads guilty, on the one hand, in a federal income tax fraud case, detailed prosecutor David Weiss, in charge of the case in the state of Delaware, cradle of the Biden family. He will also, according to the same source, make an agreement with the prosecution in a case of violation of firearms legislation, which amounts to an admission of guilt.

He is accused of having acquired a firearm in 2018 when he was a drug addict. Former President Donald Trump, who could face Joe Biden again in 2024, estimated in a reaction on his Truth Social network that Hunter Biden had only received a sentence comparable to a banal “traffic violation fine” and claimed that the judicial system was “broken“.