On Sunday, Hunter Biden’s lawyer implied that the collapse of his client’s plea offer last month was the result of political pressure rather than fresh information.
Last month, the son of former President Joe Biden was scheduled to join a diversion arrangement relating to a felony gun charge and plead guilty to misdemeanour tax charges. However, problems arose at the federal court hearing, and the judge in Delaware ultimately ruled against approving the agreement.
Abbe Lowell, Biden’s counsel, offered three potential explanations for the mishap on Sunday.
In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Lowell speculated that the prosecutors “either wrote something and weren’t clear what they meant; they knew what they meant and misstated it to counsel; or, thirdly, they changed their view as they were standing in court in Delaware.”
“One of the possibilities is the prosecutor stood up and decided for lots of reasons that might be apparent to the viewer, they didn’t like what people were saying about the deal they approved,” Lowell elaborated.
The probes into Hunter Biden’s professional and private life have persisted for five years. Federal prosecutor David Weiss, who has been leading the investigation, was designated as a special counsel on Friday by Attorney General Merrick Garland.
Lowell said on Sunday that after years of investigation, he has no reason to anticipate any new evidence will surface against his client, and that if Weiss’ findings do alter, it will be due not to facts but to political pressure from the right.
“I’m confident that if this prosecutor has done what has been done for the last five years, then the only conclusion can be what was concluded on July 26th,” Lowell added. “No fresh evidence has surfaced.”
Even if Mr. Weiss’s title changed last week, he is still the same person he has been for the past five years, Lowell emphasised. There were career prosecutors working on this case for five years, investigating every transaction in which Hunter was engaged, and he was appointed to his position as U.S. attorney by a Republican president and attorney general. His conclusion was two tax misdemeanours and a misdirected firearms charge; if there is a change from that, we must inquire, “What infected the process that was not the facts in the law?”