In Washington, Hunter Biden and his father continue to face a GOP-led congressional investigation into what House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says are the Biden family's 'shady business deals.'
Biden is accused of lying about his drug use when he bought a firearm in October 2018, a period when he has acknowledged struggling with addiction to crack cocaine.
Federal authorities with the U.S. attorney's office in Delaware, led by U.S. Attorney David Weiss, a Trump-era appointee, have been investigating Hunter Biden since 2018, before Joe Biden announced his 2020 presidential bid. He appeared before a federal judge to formally agree to the plea deal, but Judge Maryellen Noreika deferred the deal, taking issue with the structure of the arrangement and lamenting the deal's "form over substance." Noreika requested additional briefings from the parties in the coming weeks before she would determine next steps. In the meantime, Hunter Biden entered a plea of not guilty.
"As expected, prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted just six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case," Hunter Biden attorney Abbe Lowell said in a statement. "We believe these charges are barred by the agreement the prosecutors made with Mr. Biden, the recent rulings by several federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the facts that he did not violate that law, and we plan to demonstrate all of that in court.
Since then, Republicans have embarked on a sprawling effort to connect the president to his son's controversial overseas business deals.
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