Posted on 11/15/2023 10:59:28 AM PST by Red Badger
Biden's legal defense claims that Trump put "incessant, improper, and partisan pressure" on three former DOJ officials.
Hunter Biden requested on Wednesday for a federal court to subpoena documents from former President Donald Trump as well as several senior Justice Department officials as he prepares a legal defense against his gun charges. Biden's legal defense is arguing that Trump put "incessant, improper, and partisan pressure" on three former DOJ officials, including Trump Attorney General Bill Barr.
The 53-year-old son of Joe Biden pleaded not guilty last month to breaking laws that forbid drug users from owning guns after he purchased a revolver in 2018, reports the Daily Mail. He later admitted to having been grappling with addiction at the time.
Papers filed by Biden's legal team at a Delaware federal court called to have subpoenas for Trump, former Trump Attorney General Bill Barr, as well as Richard Donoghue and Jeffrey Rosen, who are another two former senior Justice Department figures.
Biden's legal defense claims that Trump put "incessant, improper, and partisan pressure" on his three officials.
The requested Trump subpoena calls for "All personal records (including diaries, journals, memoirs, memoranda, or notes) from the relevant time period discussing or concerning Hunter Biden, including, but not limited to, reference to any formal or informal decision, discussion, or request to investigate or prosecute Hunter Biden."
Biden's legal case notably marks the first-ever criminal prosecution of a sitting US president's offspring.
"Mr. Biden seeks specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former president that goes to the heart of his defense that this is, possibly, a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden’s Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution," Biden's lawyers argued to the judge.
This comes after the House Oversight Committee earlier this month issued subpoenas to Hunter Biden and a group of his affiliates that included business associates, his art gallerist, and a person who has purchased his expensive art.
Art pieces produced by Hunter Biden have at times commanded incredibly high prices. An unnamed buyer reportedly purchased 11 pieces of his artwork for a whopping $875,000, with a reported total of $1.3 million in sales.
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Just pure BS.
good luck with that.
Hunter’s lawyers may have just opened a can of worms they cannot close.....................
The inmates are running the asylum.
An intelligent person would be laying low
Like dad, Humper is a dumbass
just dumb.
Enforcing the law ... is now illegal.
So? That is literally what he swore an oath to do. A president can order an investigation started, stopped, or even conduct it himself. This sounds like more of that “Independent DOJ and AG” Bullcrap.
-PJ
+1
Fine, then call Bite-me into every Trump case right frigging now.
Hunter doesn’t want to open the issue of was the DOJ pressured and by whom. If the judge is honest, it won’t go well for Hunter.
Which would cause more outcry?
A POTUS calling for an investigation?
OR
A POTUS STOPPING AN INVESTIGATION?..................
Hunter must be desperate.
Hunter. Hunter Biden. King of the phoney lawsuits...
Wow just shameless his Dad uses the FBI as a weapon and worthless Hunter tries this. The rats know. Offense. Always stay in offense.
Very......................
I think that's the plan. The Dims are trying to force Trump to vouch for the veracity of the DOJ to investigate even people with political connections ... so the Dims can quote Trump's legal team when the Dims later say the DOJ can relentlessly attack Trump with bogus charges.
Dad is POTUS. Being a dumbass in today's America is not a hindrance.
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