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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Joan E Greve

Republicans want it both ways: less gun control and Hunter Biden gun charges

Taken from below, so the background is a wash of cloudy sky, is a middle-aged white man, with gray hair slicked back, wearing sunglasses, a black trench coat, and a button-up shirt open at the neck.
Hunter Biden disembarks from Air Force One in Syracuse, New York, on 4 February 2023. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

After spending years attacking Hunter Biden over his allegedly illegal behavior, Republicans reacted to the news of his indictment last week with a measure of disappointment.

Congressman James Comer, the Republican chair of the House oversight committee who has focused his investigative work on the president’s son and his business dealings, described the three-felony gun charges filed against Hunter Biden as “a very small start”. In a post shared to his social media platform Truth Social, Donald Trump lamented that the gun charges were “the only crime that Hunter Biden committed that does not implicate Crooked Joe Biden”.

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