In a dramatic turn of events, Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell, launched a blistering counteroffensive on Thursday, asserting that prosecutors succumbed to relentless political pressure exerted by House Republicans to secure an indictment against the President’s son.
Barely hours after a grand jury handed down charges related to gun possession against Hunter Biden, Lowell unleashed a trove of documents to three congressional committees. These documents were accompanied by a scathing cover letter that squarely took aim at the three Republican committee chairs deeply entrenched in their investigations of the Biden family. POLITICO has obtained this revelatory letter, and the contents are nothing short of explosive.
Lowell did not mince words as he began the letter, vehemently accusing lawmakers of single-mindedly pursuing their goal “to move the needle of political support for the 2024 election” instead of conducting genuine oversight. More significantly, Lowell strongly hinted that Hunter Biden’s indictment was an outcome directly influenced by their relentless pressure.
He stated, “Your blatant efforts achieved your goal as the U.S. Attorney in Delaware today filed gun charges against our client — charges that are unprecedented when not part of some other criminal conduct and have been found unconstitutional by a federal court of appeals — and who reversed his earlier decision that such charges were not warranted. Your improper interference now affecting a federal prosecutor is a much greater threat to society than the 11 days that Mr. Biden possessed an unloaded gun.”
This letter signifies a seismic escalation in the escalating battle between the President’s son and the determined Hill Republicans who have made him the central focus of their recently unveiled impeachment inquiry targeting the President himself.
Furthermore, the letter accuses the committee’s witnesses of breaching “federal laws protecting grand jury and tax information” while lambasting Republicans for exploiting their investigation “to dump wholesale protected tax information about Mr. Biden” into the public domain.
Tristan Leavitt, an attorney representing one of the IRS whistleblowers, swiftly came to his client’s defense, asserting, “Here we go again.” He emphasized that Hunter Biden’s legal team had already presented this argument to Judge Maryellen Noreika, who had reviewed the whistleblower materials and dismissed the defense counsel’s unfounded claims, including allegations concerning grand jury secrecy violations. Leavitt underscored that taxpayer privacy laws were crafted by Congress, affording it the authority to consider disclosures about taxpayer information.
As this electrifying legal battle unfolds, the nation waits with bated breath to see how this high-stakes confrontation will impact the political landscape.
