Fox News legal analyst Jonathan Turley said Thursday that the Department of Justice may end up tripping “the wire” for President Joe Biden as they prosecute his son Hunter.
Hunter Biden is set to be arraigned Thursday in California on nine federal tax charges after prosecutors alleged he failed to pay $1.4 million in federal taxes.
Fox’s John Roberts asked Turley whether the court would “delve into the money trail,” noting a comment from a guest in 2023 who said the financial documents would show Biden’s brother and a family friend would be outed. (RELATED: Reporter Asks Hunter Biden What Kind Of Crack He Smokes)
“Do you expect the court will get into that level of detail in this case, and if it does, what could come out?”
“It really depends on the Department of Justice. But when you look at this indictment, the twists and bends they take, is it really rivals Nadia Comaneci, the gymnast. This is an indictment that carefully avoids bringing up the influence peddling, corruption scandal and its basis. It can’t avoid it to some extent, as you’ve noticed, because some of these unindicted figures are, in fact, Biden family members.”
“But the Department of Justice has avoided opening up a special counsel investigation of influence peddling. They have avoided charging him on FARA, which many of us don’t understand, that he was an unregistered foreign agent. All of those moves have served to protect the president. It’s insulated the president to a degree in these trials. So they indeed may trip some wires because it’s very hard to deal with some of these issues without acknowledging that the funds were coming from a massive influence-peddling scheme. But so far, they seem to be intent to try and avoid doing that.”
Hunter also faces three federal gun charges in Delaware and pleaded “not guilty” to those charges in October.
Hunter unexpectedly showed up at the Oversight Committee hearing on Wednesday as the committee was planning to hold him in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena for a closed-door deposition.