On Monday, June 3 in a Wilmington, Delaware courtroom — with U.S District Judge Maryellen Noreika presiding — jury selection in Hunter Biden's trial on gun charges got underway.
Right-wing media outlets have been playing up the case, repeatedly pointing out that Hunter Biden is President Joe Biden's son and that he suffered from drug problems in the past. In California, the younger Biden is also facing tax charges.
But Hunter Biden, HuffPost reports, has found an unlikely defender: conservative Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina).
The GOP senator told HuffPost, "I think any average American who's done their taxes like Hunter Biden would have probably faced prosecution. However, I don't think the average American would have been charged with the gun thing. I don't see any good coming from that.”
HuffPost reporter Igor Bobic notes that Hunter Biden, in his 2021 memoir, "admitted…. that he was habitually using crack cocaine at the time of the gun purchase."
"He has pleaded not guilty, and has argued he's being unfairly targeted by the Justice Department," Bobic explains. "Opening arguments in his trial are expected to begin on Tuesday, (June 4). Biden's lawyers previously argued that the charges violate the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, citing a recent opinion by the conservative majority on the Supreme Court which declared that gun restrictions are unconstitutional unless they can trace their origins to sometime between the signing of the Bill of Rights and the end of the Civil War."
Bobic adds, "Hunter Biden has also described the charges as politically motivated, claiming that Republicans are trying to 'kill' him in order to destroy his father’s presidency."
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The HuffPost reporter also points out that the case "represents the first prosecution in U.S. history of the child of a sitting president."
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