Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Thursday (native time) termed the indictment of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter in a firearms case a “smokescreen”. He stated the indictment was achieved to “deflect attention” from what he described because the “real problem” of the Biden household’s funds.
Hunter Biden was charged by Special Counsel David Weiss with federal gun crimes, together with making a false assertion on the acquisition of a firearm, making a false assertion concerning info wanted to be stored by a federal firearms licensed vendor and one rely of possession of a firearm by an individual who’s an illegal person of or hooked on a managed substance, Fox News reported.
“Today’s indictment of Hunter Biden is a smokescreen. Don’t fall for it. This is a fig leaf designed to deflect attention away from the real problem: the Biden family is selling out US foreign policy for their own family’s private financial gain,” Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old entrepreneur, wrote on X.
“That’s really what’s wrong, and we must hold politicians in both major political parties when they use our foreign policy to enrich their family members,” he added.
Ramaswamy stated the impeachment inquiry initiated by the Republican-dominated House of Representatives “is a step in the right direction”.
“…But the public shouldn’t fall for the trick of diverting attention away from the true problem. It’s also no accident that today’s indictment comes at a moment when President Biden’s own popularity within the Democratic Party is cratering,” he stated.
“I predict this is the first step for the Democrat Party managerial class to pressure Joe Biden out of the race. Biden will become a sacrificial pawn in service to the deep state that wants to keep power at all costs,” he additional stated.
Hunter Biden has additionally been below investigation for his enterprise dealings. The particular counsel overseeing the case has indicated that costs of failure to pay taxes on time may very well be filed in Washington or in California, the place he lives, AP reported.
The indictment got here as congressional Republicans pursue an impeachment inquiry into the Democratic president, largely over Hunter Biden’s enterprise dealings.
Republicans have obtained testimony about how Hunter Biden used the “Biden brand” to drum up work abroad, however they haven’t produced laborious proof of wrongdoing by the president.
Edited By:
Prateek Chakraborty
Published On:
Sep 15, 2023
