Hunter’s Lawyers Claim Their Client’s Prosecution Is Putin’s Bidding

Lawyers of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, recently claimed that Special Counsel David Weiss was following directions from Russian President Vladimir Putin to prosecute the first son.

Hunter’s attorneys, Abbe Lowell and Bartholomew Dalton, issued a scathing rebuke of Weiss for charging the president’s son with tax and gun-related misdemeanors following the implosion of his plea deal in July 2023. The lawyers argued that Weiss’ actions advanced the Kremlin’s interests.

In a six-page filing, the attorneys claimed Weiss was doing Putin’s bidding by prosecuting Hunter.

“The Special Counsel has done exactly what the Russian intelligence operation desired by initiating prosecutions against Mr. Biden,” the lawyers wrote.

The filing was added in Lowell’s motion to try and have the case against Hunter dismissed following Weiss’ indictment of former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) informant Alexander Smirnov in February 2024.

The New York Post pointed out that Smirnov had spread allegations that the president and Hunter received $5 million each in bribes from the corrupt Ukrainian energy company Burisma in exchange for ousting Ukraine’s former Prosecutor-General Viktor Shokin.

Hunter’s lawyers claimed that Weiss’ legal team “reopened” its review of Smirnov’s allegations sometime in 2023 amid pressure from “extremist Republicans and right-wing press outlets.”

Lowell and Dalton formed a connection between this and Hunter’s imploded planned plea deal regarding tax charges in July 2023 and the collapse of the pretrial diversion agreement relating to firearm charges.

“By the end of that month (July), the then-U.S. Attorney’s Office, instead of addressing with Mr. Biden’s counsel the specific questions this Court asked on July 26, instead abruptly backed away from a Plea Agreement that it signed and proposed to this Court and reneged on the Diversion Agreement,” the attorneys wrote.

U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika blasted the plea deal during a court hearing on July 26, 2023, accusing the prosecution and defense of trying to coerce her to “runner-stamp” the agreement.

Days before the hearing, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IO) released an FD-1023 form detailing Smirnov’s allegations to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Smirnov is now facing two felony counts for making a false statement to the bureau and creating a fictitious record. The ex-FBI official has pleaded not guilty to all counts.

Following Smirnov’s indictment, Hunter’s lawyers demanded that the tax charges against the first son be dropped, citing the former FBI informant’s alleged ties to the Kremlin.