


Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) defended President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign, saying he does not think the investigation into Hunter Biden, which is expected to produce new charges soon, will have an impact on the president’s bid to stay in the Oval Office.
“There's no ties between President Biden and his conduct as president and these regrettable matters with Hunter Biden,” Coons said on ABC's This Week on Sunday.
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“I frankly admire the fact that Pres. Biden stands by his son,” Sen. Chris Coons tells @JonKarl as Hunter Biden faces legal trouble.
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“But it doesn’t implicate his leadership as president and I don’t believe it will have an impact on his reelection.” https://t.co/hPpTISPgYd pic.twitter.com/xkX7Be3AHD
“Hunter is looking forward to resolving this to moving forward with his life and his recovery, and I frankly admire the fact that President Biden stands by his son, but it doesn't implicate his leadership as president, and I don't believe it will have an impact on his reelection,” Coons continued.
The Democrat candidate and ally of the president pointed out that Hunter Biden is not running for office, but former President Donald Trump is, citing his four ongoing legal battles and dozens of criminal counts.
“Hunter Biden is not going to be on the election polls,” Coons said. “He is not standing for election next November. Donald Trump likely is, and the four different legal matters where Donald Trump has been charged with 83 counts stand in stark contrast.”
Coons said that Biden is committed to staying out of David Weiss’s investigation. Federal prosecutors have spent five years investigating Hunter Biden, with a wave of new testimony from former colleagues and affiliates coming out this year.
“He is committed to staying out of this, to allowing the Department of Justice to conduct what has now been a five-year investigation and to move forward with this matter as they should,” Coons said. “And I think that stands in sharp contrast to his predecessor who interfered in lots of matters at the Department of Justice.”
Earlier this summer, the DOJ announced Hunter Biden had been charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm offense. He pleaded not guilty to two tax crimes after a plea bargain to resolve gun counts with federal prosecutors fell apart in July. Additional pressure fell on the Biden family when Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel to probe his son in mid-August.
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The special counsel investigating the president’s son said they plan to indict him on a gun charge by the end of the month.
Concerns about Biden's reelection viability have been growing after his approval rating dropped to 39% this week, according to a CNN poll, the lowest the outlet has ever surveyed for the president.