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The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

Hunter Biden lawyer accuses prosecutors of ‘bowing to Republican pressure’

Hunter Biden was charged with tax fraud in California on Thursday evening.
Hunter Biden was charged with tax fraud in California on Thursday evening. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

Hunter Biden’s defense attorney Abbe Lowell has condemned prosecutors who charged the US president’s 54-year old son with tax fraud on Thursday, accusing special counsel David Weiss of “bowing to Republican pressure”.

“Based on the facts and the law, if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Lowell said in a statement.

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