After pleading ‘Guilty’ in his $1.4 million dollar federal tax evasion case this week, embattled First Son Hunter Biden released a statement explaining his actions, insisting he made the choice to save his family from further embarrassment.
“I went to trial in Delaware not realizing the anguish it would cause my family, and I will not put them through it again,” Biden said. “When it became clear to me that the same prosecutors were focused not on justice but on dehumanizing me for my actions during my addiction, there was only one path left for me.”
“I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment. For all I have put them through over the years, I can spare them this, and so I have decided to plead guilty,” he added.
“Like millions of Americans, I failed to file and pay my taxes on time. For that I am responsible. As I have stated, addiction is not an excuse, but it is an explanation for some of my failures at issue in this case. When I was addicted, I wasn’t thinking about my taxes, I was thinking about surviving,” Biden continued.
“But the jury would never have heard that or know that I had paid every penny of my back taxes including penalties.I have been clean and sober for more than five years now because I have had the love and support of my family. I can never repay them for showing up for me and helping me through my worst moments. But I can protect them from being publicly humiliated for my failures,” he said.
“This has been a difficult moment for him and especially his family,” Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell told federal Judge Mark Scarsi of the sudden change of plea. “He and his family don’t want to spend one more day on a period when he was addicted to drugs.”
“Hunter decided to enter his plea to protect those he loves from unnecessary hurt and cruel humiliation,” Lowell said later Thursday outside of court.
Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in his gun case and another 17 years in the tax case; he likely won’t face the maximum.
Sources told The Post that President Biden is expected to pardon Hunter, despite previous comments to the contrary.
More over at The New York Post:
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