Former President Donald Trump is taking aim at the Justice Department over its indictment of President Biden's son Hunter Biden on federal firearms charges
in an indictment filed Thursday in federal court in Delaware by a special counsel overseeing the case, is accused of lying about his drug use when he purchased a weapon in 2018, during a time when he's acknowledged struggling with a crack cocaine addiction.
The charges, which come weeks after a plea deal collapsed, are the latest twist in a long-running investigation into the president's son which could result in a high-profile trial ahead of a likely rematch between the elder Biden and Trump in the 2024 presidential election. President Biden's son Hunter Biden exits in J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on July 26, 2023. Trump, taking to social media moments after the news broke of the Hunter Biden indictment, reiterated his unproven claims that the Justice Department is working to undermine him in the 2024 election. GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announced on Wednesday that he was directing a committee to open an impeachment inquiry intoHouse Republicans charge that the president — when he was serving as vice president in the Obama administration — profited off his son's foreign business deals. Trump also slammed the Justice Department, and Democrats, for what he claimed are the"horrible, very unfair, and mostly illegal Witch Hunts," as he referred to his own federal indictments related to the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol and his handling of classified documents after leaving the White House. Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump arrives at the Monument Leaders Rally hosted by the South Dakota Republican Party on September 8, 2023 in Rapid City, South Dakota. Trump wasn't the only Republican presidential candidate to react to the bombshell Hunter Biden developments.
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