Hunter Biden’s lawyers launch what appears to be an eleventh-minute attempt to obtain a pardon from Dad

Lawyers for scandal-scarred first son Hunter Biden have issued a new public diatribe complaining that he is the alleged victim of “political prosecutions” – an apparent final attempt by his father to pardon him.

Abbe Lowell, one of Hunter’s top lawyers, brushed off his well-worn claims that the two criminal cases against the 54-year-old disgraced son faced significant outside pressure as Republicans sought to politically damage his father, President Biden .

“This is a seven-year saga driven by a relentless political desire to use a son to harm his father,” Lowell said in a statement accompanying the public letter, first obtained by The Washington Post.

“It is a wild and frightening story that serves as a stark warning of what is to come, as some of the Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to regain power and have declared their intention to use the enormous power of the “Using government to persecute their perceived enemies.” Lowell claimed.

Hunter pleaded guilty in September to nine counts of bilking Americans of $1.4 million in taxes – although his defense team stubbornly insisted he was being politically persecuted. At the time, the presiding judge determined that Hunter would face up to 17 years in prison and a fine of up to $1.3 million.

Additionally, a jury in June found Hunter guilty on three counts related to possessing a firearm while addicted to illegal drugs.

Hunter is scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12 in the gun case and Dec. 16 in the tax case.

President Biden and the White House have repeatedly ruled out both a pardon and clemency for his troubled son, with whom he spent time on Nantucket on Thanksgiving.

“We’ve been asked this question several times and our answer is no,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters after President-elect Donald Trump’s victory.

The new public memo from Hunter’s defense team, titled “The Political Persecution of Hunter Biden,” is 52 pages long and was described by Lowell as a “complete and reprehensible history of the political persecution of Hunter Biden.”

“A system that was supposed to protect against abuses has failed to do so and has been corrupted by political leaders in this country,” the memo said.

“As a result, Hunter faces severe penalties for felonies and misdemeanors that far exceed the precedents where others have committed less serious offenses or where civil judgments or consent judgments are typically obtained – all based on the mistakes he made during his time a serious drug addiction.”

It includes a timeline of how Trump’s confidants searched for Hunter and rehashed the plea deal that imploded in court in the summer of 2023 when a judge exposed disagreements between prosecutors and the defense over whether the former would soon receive broad immunity.

At the time, a cacophony of Republicans initially dismissed that agreement as a “sweetheart” plea deal and publicly accused prosecutors of letting him off the hook.

Regarding Hunter’s gun case, his defense argued that one of the charges was typically only brought against people who had been convicted of a felony or owned multiple guns.

Thanks to his laptop and his book “Beautiful Things,” which laid out the details of his crack addiction at the time, prosecutors had an extraordinary wealth of evidence against the troubled first son. During the gun case against him, prosecutors played excerpts from Hunter’s audiobook in the courtroom.

Hunter’s defense team also emphasized that he “paid his delinquent taxes in full, including interest and penalties, in 2021 – over two years before charges were filed.” He did this with the help of his so-called “sugar brother” pal Kevin Morris.

The first son claimed he pleaded guilty to the charges so as not to subject my family to “more pain, further invasion of privacy and unnecessary embarrassment.”

“The impact that the extraordinary and inappropriate events described have had on Hunter and his family is obvious,” his lawyers added in the new memo.

“However, the impact that partisan politics can have on a supposedly independent prosecutorial decision-making process goes beyond Hunter’s case,” the letter said. “The outsized role of politics reveals a new page in the playbook of the politicization of investigations and prosecutions.”

Ironically, many of President Biden’s allies had brushed aside Trump’s similar accusations that he was a victim of political persecution by the judiciary.

Despite Hunter suggesting that Trump’s supporters are a “fascist minority” and comparing the president-elect to a dictator, the new Republican commander-in-chief is keeping the door open to pardoning him.

“I wouldn’t take it off the books,” Trump previously told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt.

“There’s no question he was a bad boy,” he said of Hunter. “All you had to do was see the laptop from hell. But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.”