Hunter Biden has been targeted by tax investigators.
The son of the elected US President Joe Biden is taking the investigation first, but is optimistic.
Tax inspectors
investigating the
son
of
Joe Biden
.
Hunter Biden
says: "I take this very seriously."
Donald Trump
had
Hunter Biden
attacked several times during the election campaign.
Now the first calls for a
special investigator are
loud.
Trump
suspects election fraud.
Update from Thursday, December 10th, 2020, 11:15 am:
After
Hunter Biden announced
on Wednesday that he was being investigated for "tax matters", the first political demands were already being made.
Hunter Biden investigation: will a special investigator follow?
For example,
Ken Buck
, MP in the House of Representatives, called for a
special investigator
to be appointed.
Above all, it must be examined what is on Biden's laptop, said Buck.
. @ TheJusticeDept must appoint a Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden's conduct and contents of his laptop.
This needs to be investigated free from political interference.
No matter who is in the White House.
- Congressman Ken Buck (@RepKenBuck) December 7, 2020
He also stressed that this had to happen regardless of
who was the US President
: It doesn't matter who “sits in the White House.” If a
special investigator were to be
appointed, he could be largely independent of the new Attorney General Joe Biden appoints, investigate.
That would give the Republicans the opportunity to use the issue politically.
Donald Trump has already responded to the news that Hunter Biden is under investigation.
Trump
wrote on
that ten percent of voters would have voted differently if they
had been informed
about
Hunter Biden
.
"10% of voters would have changed their vote if they knew about Hunter Biden."
Miranda Devine @nypost @TuckerCarlson But I won anyway!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 10, 2020
Donald Trump
added:
"I won anyway."
He was repeating his allegations of election fraud, which he has been spreading for weeks.
The fact that his son is being investigated and that the subject is receiving such attention could become the first test for Joe Biden even before he is sworn in as US president in January.
Initial report from Wednesday, December 9th, 2020, 11 p.m .:
Hunter Biden
,
the son of the elected US President Joe Biden *
, is being
investigated
at the federal level for
“tax matters”
.
In a statement from his father's transition team, Hunter Biden said on Wednesday (local time) that his lawyers had been informed of the investigation by the Delaware prosecutor's office the day before.
+
Joe Biden (r.) And his son Hunter.
(Archive photo)
© Andrew Harnik / AFP
"I take this very seriously, but I am confident that a professional and objective review of these matters will show that I have handled my affairs legally and appropriately, including with the help of professional accountants," said
Hunter Biden,
according to the AFP news agency.
Investigation against Hunter Biden - Trump attacks in the US election campaign
Biden's son was
repeatedly the target of attacks by the now-elected President Donald Trump *
in the
US election campaign
.
Trump
raised
serious corruption charges
against
Hunter and Joe Biden
- who was Vice President from 2009 to 2017.
The background to this is Hunter Biden's questionable foreign business in Ukraine and China.
Hunter Biden held a lucrative position on the supervisory board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma between 2014 and 2019.
The
future president Joe Biden
had
rejected
the attacks against himself and his family in the
election campaign
as a smear campaign.
Biden's team said he was proud of his son.
Hunter Biden
had to face severe challenges, "including the malicious personal attacks of the past few months".
He emerged stronger from it.
(Svenja Wallocha with agencies)
* fr.de is part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.
List of rubric lists: © Andrew Harnik / AFP