Hunter Biden Indicted On Gun Charges
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🗓️ 14 September 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:52.7 | I'm Siamese and Davis. I cover politics. I'm Kelsey Snelli. I also cover politics. And I'm |
| 0:56.8 | Tamer Keith. I cover the White House. And we are coming to you a little bit later than usual |
| 1:00.9 | today because there was some late breaking news. President Biden's son Hunter was indicted on |
| 1:05.9 | three federal felony gun charges. Two counts are related to false statements he made while |
| 1:10.9 | purchasing a firearm in one count of possession of a firearm while addicted to a controlled substance. |
| 1:16.8 | The charges were brought by special counsel David Weiss who was appointed last month by attorney |
| 1:21.1 | General Merrick Garland, but who had been already investigating Hunter Biden for years at this |
| 1:25.6 | point. The charges come after a plea deal for Hunter Biden fell apart earlier this summer. |
| 1:31.3 | Tam, these charges are not directly related to House Republicans new impeachment inquiry of |
| 1:36.4 | President Biden, but they do seem to undercut one of the core claims outlined by Speaker McCarthy |
| 1:42.6 | alleging that the Justice Department has given Hunter Biden special treatment in their |
| 1:47.2 | investigation of him. Yeah, I don't think that this is going to change the argument of House |
| 1:52.0 | Republicans because they want the Justice Department to go even harder on Hunter Biden. They obviously |
| 1:58.6 | thought that the plea agreement, which has now gone away, that that was too lenient, but they're |
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