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.
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View on RumblePapers 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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