Hunter Biden confessed. The son of US President Joe Biden and recurring target of the Republican opposition, has admitted his guilt in two federal cases concerning him, said Tuesday, June 20 the prosecutor in charge of the case.

"The President and First Lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life. We will not have more comment," the White House said.

Hunter Biden, 53, pleads guilty to a federal income tax fraud case, says prosecutor David Weiss.

Guilty plea

He will also, according to the same source, reach an agreement with the prosecution in a case of violation of firearms laws, which amounts to a guilty plea. He is accused of having acquired a firearm in 2018 while he was a drug addict.

Former President Donald Trump, struggling with justice in a series of cases, said in a reaction on his network "Truth Social" that Hunter Biden had received only a banal "fine for violation of the rules of the road" and claimed that the judicial system was "broken".

The youngest son of the US president – the eldest, Beau, died in 2015 of brain cancer – described his addiction problems, including crack cocaine, in a book published in the spring of 2021.

He recounts the first tragedy of his life, the death of his mother and little sister in a car accident in 1972.

Beau and Hunter, still very small boys, were seriously injured in the accident, which occurred just after Joe Biden was elected senator from Delaware.

The Democrat later remarried to Jill Biden, with whom he raised his two sons, and had a daughter.

"My son did nothing wrong"

In his book Hunter Biden, former lawyer and businessman turned artist, also claims to be now weaned from alcohol as well as drugs.

The US president, candidate for the 2024 election, has always supported him publicly and had said he was "proud" of him during a heated debate opposing him to Donald Trump before the 2020 presidential election.

Joe Biden also rejects the accusations of corruption of the Republican parliamentary opposition.

The latter accuses Hunter Biden of having done questionable business in Ukraine and China while Joe Biden was Barack Obama's vice president (2009-2017), capitalizing on the networks and his father's name.

"My son didn't do anything wrong," he said in an interview with MSNBC last May. "I trust him," Biden added.

With AFP

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