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(RepublicanWire.org) – Federal investigators believe they have enough evidence to charge President Joe Biden’s son Hunter with tax fraud and lying about his drug use on a federal gun purchase form, according to sources familiar with the investigation who spoke to the Washington Post.

Federal authorities began looking into Hunter Biden’s foreign business activities in 2018. Sources for the investigation told the Washington Post their efforts have recently focused on whether he correctly report all of his income, and whether he lied on federal gun purchase paperwork in 2018. The sources said they now have enough evidence to pursue charges.

The decision to actually charge Hunter Biden will reportedly now go to U.S. Attorney in Delaware, David C. Weiss, an appointee of former President Donald Trump. Attorney General Merrick Garland has already made clear that Weiss is in charge of the case and vowed there would be no political interference in Weiss’s decision-making.

The potential tax fraud charges relate to whether or not Hunter Biden declared all of his income from his various foreign business dealings.

The potential gun charges reportedly stem from a handgun purchase the president’s son made in October of 2018, in which Biden allegedly marked “no” to a question on a federal gun purchase form about whether he was “an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?”

Hunter Biden has admitted to past drug use, including smoking crack cocaine. A case over whether he lied on the federal form would focus on whether Biden’s drug use overlapped with the time he purchased the gun.

In March, CNN reported federal investigators were looking into a 2018 incident in which Hunter Biden’s then-girlfriend Hallie Biden — the former wife of Joe Biden’s late son Beau Biden — took a handgun belonging to Hunter Biden and threw it in a garbage can behind a grocery store located near a high school. 

Politico reported last year that U.S. Secret Service agents had intervened after the 2018 incident, reaching out to the owner of the Delaware gun store where Hunter Biden reportedly purchased the gun and asking him to turn over the purchase records. Rob Palmieri, the gun store owner, reportedly refused, questioning the agents’ motives and suspecting they were trying to take and conceal Hunter Biden’s gun purchase records.

These reported charges against Hunter, have caused suspicion from many in the press, that they are just a deflection.

Joe Biden and his team have repeatedly denied that the president was involved in any way with Hunter Biden’s business activities. Bobulinski, however, produced documentation saying that Hunter Biden held ten percent for “the big guy,” who he claims is Joe Biden.

Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland has refused to say whether a special counsel should be placed over the investigation to maintain a just probe. A special counsel would provide distance from Joe Biden and the investigation into Hunter and the Biden family business dealings.

Sixty-two percent of registered voters believe Joe Biden likely consulted and perhaps profited from Biden family business deals. Sixty percent said Hunter Biden has sold “influence and access” to the president.

Questions still remain if any probe into Hunter will implicate President Joe Biden. Joe Biden and his staff have claimed seven times the president has had no part in the family business, but he has been involved in at least 17 instances.

(RepublicanWire.org) – On Friday, Joe Biden made a statement about former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s assassination that raised eyebrows. While the president was initially criticized for his extremely slow response to the tragic news, attention quickly shifted to his mention of “gun violence” in this horrific incident.

“I am stunned, outraged, and deeply saddened by the news that my friend Abe Shinzo, former Prime Minister of Japan, was shot and killed while campaigning,” Biden said. “This is a tragedy for Japan and for all who knew him. I had the privilege to work closely with Prime Minister Abe. As Vice President, I visited him in Tokyo and welcomed him to Washington. He was a champion of the Alliance between our nations and the friendship between our people. The longest serving Japanese Prime Minister, his vision of a free and open Indo-Pacific will endure. Above all, he cared deeply about the Japanese people and dedicated his life to their service. Even at the moment he was attacked, he was engaged in the work of democracy. While there are many details that we do not yet know, we know that violent attacks are never acceptable and that gun violence always leaves a deep scar on the communities that are affected by it. The United States stands with Japan in this moment of grief. I send my deepest condolences to his family.”

The problem, of course, is that gun violence is practically unheard of in Japan, which has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world due to its strict laws. The suspect even used a homemade gun.

As tributes poured in from around the world, noticeably absent were any statements from President Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, or White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Abe is Japan’s longest-serving prime minister. He served from 2006 to 2007 and again in 2012 until he resigned in 2020 after his ulcerative colitis, a chronic condition, resurfaced, calling his decision at the time “gut-wrenching.”

During his term, he focused on the economy, rebuilding Japan’s military and being a larger player in international affairs. 

Abe was the first world leader to meet with President Trump after his 2016 election and the two had a warm relationship.

(RepublicanWire.org) – Hunter was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve in 2014 after he tested positive for cocaine. Eleven days after, Hunter illegally purchased a firearm.

On a firearm transaction report, Hunter answered no when questioned if he was an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance.

Making a false statement on a federal criminal background check, known as ATF Form 4473, is a violation of federal law under Section 922(a)(6) of the U.S. criminal code.

It also could violate Section 922(g)(3), which prohibits a drug user from possessing a firearm with ammunition.

It was later discovered that Hunter’s lover Hallie, the widow of his late brother Beau Biden, threw the gun into a supermarket garbage can, which triggered a Secret Service, FBI, and Delaware State Police investigation.

In leaked text messages from 2019, Hunter said the FBI had gotten involved in the case.

“She stole the gun out of my trunk lock box and threw it in a garbage can full to the top at Jansens,” he said.

“Then told me it was my problem to deal with. Then when the police the FBI (and) the secret service came on the scene she said she took it from me because she was scared I would harm myself due to my drug and alcohol problem and our volatile relationship and that she was afraid for the kids.”

In another chain of text messages, Hunter added: “I freaked when I saw it was missing 10 minutes after she took it and when she went back to get it after I scared the s*** out of her it was gone which led to the state police investigation of me. True story.”

Nobody was ever charged or arrested.

Now a new video has been leaked. In the video, a naked Hunter casually waves around a handgun and even points it at the camera while cavorting with a nude hooker in a swank hotel room.

The video of Hunter Biden holding the apparently illegally obtained weapon emerged amid the rash of mass shootings — and random gun violence in major cities  — that included 11 incidents on Saturday and Sunday alone that left at least 15 people dead and 61 injured across the U.S., data shows.

It also came just days after his dad called on Congress to pass new gun-control measures to stem the slaughter, declaring in a televised, primetime address last week that “the Second Amendment, like all other rights, is not absolute.”

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) slammed the apparent hypocrisy.

“Before proposing or passing any new federal gun legislation the Biden administration sought to enforce existing laws, regardless of who is violating them, even if that person is the president’s son.

“I’ve written oversight letters to the U.S. Secret Service, FBI and ATF regarding the incident involving Hunter’s gun dumped in a trash can behind a grocery store across from a high school in Delaware,” added Johnson, who’s been investigating the Biden family’s controversial overseas business dealings. 

“Unsurprisingly, I have not gotten a satisfactory response from these agencies.”