Hunter Biden’s indictment this week on charges related to an alleged gun crime has resurfaced concerns about how law enforcement handled the incident in 2018 when it occurred.
The president’s son faces three federal charges for allegedly lying on paperwork he filled out to buy a firearm from a gun store in Delaware. On the purchase forms, Hunter Biden stated that he was not addicted to an illegal substance, even though he went on to detail how severely he was abusing drugs at that time in a 2021 memoir and in media interviews.
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But in the immediate aftermath of the gun purchase and the bizarre manner in which Hunter Biden lost the weapon less than two weeks after buying it, Delaware police did nothing to punish him, and the Secret Service agents reportedly attempted to make the problem disappear.
Hunter Biden’s gun purchase turned into a debacle in October 2018 when Hallie Biden, the widow of Hunter Biden’s late brother Beau, tossed the firearm into a dumpster outside a luxury food market after discovering the gun in Hunter Biden’s truck.
Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden were romantically involved at the time.
When Hunter Biden learned what his then-girlfriend had done, he ordered Hallie to return to the store and retrieve the gun; the firearm had disappeared when she did so just a few hours later, according to a Politico report in 2021.
That report said Hallie Biden notified the food market, whose general manager called Delaware police.
The disposal of the gun in the store’s dumpster raised additional alarms because the food market was located across the street from a high school.
Citing a police report, Politico noted that Hunter Biden attempted to shift the blame for the missing gun onto the “prolly [sic] illegal” Hispanic workers at the store.
But a troubling element of the report involved what Secret Service agents were doing at the same time that police were questioning Hunter Biden and Hallie Biden about the missing gun.
Unnamed sources said agents showed up at the gun store where Hunter Biden had purchased the firearm and demanded to take the purchase paperwork with them. The gun store owner reportedly refused to hand it over.
While neither Hunter Biden nor his father were Secret Service protectees at that time, Joe Biden reportedly maintained an unofficial working relationship with Secret Service agents stationed in Wilmington, Delaware, during those years between his vice presidency and his selection as the Democratic nominee for president.
Whether Joe Biden asked Secret Service agents to track down the gun paperwork, which is key to the federal charges Hunter Biden currently faces, will likely emerge as a topic of concern as Hunter Biden’s gun cases progress.
Unanswered questions also remain as to why Delaware police took no action on the case.
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House Republicans expressed skepticism on Thursday, when special counsel David Weiss filed his indictment against Hunter Biden, that the charges represented a serious attempt to hold Hunter Biden accountable.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) noted that the gun offense is the only alleged crime of Hunter Biden’s in which Joe Biden cannot be implicated.