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US President Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden, has pleaded guilty in two federal cases involving him. He pleaded guilty to a federal income tax fraud case, and will also make a deal with the prosecution in a gun violation case.

Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden and a recurring target of the Republican opposition in the United States, has pleaded guilty in two federal cases concerning him, the prosecutor in charge of the case said Tuesday. He pleaded guilty to a federal income tax fraud case, said prosecutor David Weiss. Hunter Biden, 53, will also, according to the same source, make a deal with the prosecution in a case of violation of the laws on firearms, which amounts to a guilty plea.

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Hunter Biden, then a drug addict, allegedly acquired a firearm

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 only received a "fine" 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 unvarnished his addiction problems, including crack, in a book published in the spring of 2021. In this book, Hunter Biden, former lawyer and businessman turned artist, also claims to be now weaned from alcohol and drugs.

Joe Biden said he was "proud" of his son during a debate

The US president 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.

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Joe Biden also rejects the accusations of corruption of the Republican parliamentary opposition who accuse Hunter Biden of having done questionable business in Ukraine and China while his father was vice president. "My son didn't do anything wrong," he said in an interview with MSNBC last May. "I trust him," Biden added.