WASHINGTON TIMES
One of former President Donald Trump’s key allies took Hunter Biden’s side on his current gun prosecution.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, agreed with the defense attorney’s claims that the president’s son is being persecuted because of his name.
In remarks Monday to HuffPost, Mr. Graham distinguished between the two federal cases — tax charges in California and firearms charges in Delaware — being pursued against the younger Mr. Biden.
“I think any average American who’s done their taxes like Hunter Biden would have probably faced prosecution,” he said.
“However, I don’t think the average American would have been charged with the gun thing,” said the senator, a former member of the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General’s Corps. “I don’t see any good coming from that.”
In the trial that started this week in Delaware, Mr. Biden faces three charges accusing him of illegally purchasing and possessing a gun while abusing or being addicted to drugs.
Federal law prohibits addicts from purchasing guns and there are questions on gun-purchase forms, filed under penalty of perjury, asking about that. Mr. Biden stated in a 2021 memoir that he was habitually using crack at the time he bought the gun.
