Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Seek To Have His Tax Evasion Case Thrown Out, Citing Trump’s Victory in Mar-a-Lago Case

Biden’s lawyers argue that Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling that Special Counsel Jack Smith was illegally appointed should apply to the prosecutor coming for the first son as well.

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Hunter Biden departs from a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, file

A federal judge in California will soon decide the fate of Special Counsel David Weiss’s prosecution of Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to file and pay his taxes between 2016 and 2019, when he was actively addicted to drugs, cavorting with prostitutes, and raking in millions of dollars from overseas business deals. Biden’s lawyers will face the jurist at Los Angeles on Monday and argue that Mr. Weiss was illegally appointed to his position of special counsel, and has no standing to bring the case against the first son. 

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