‘It’s Bad News for Hunter Biden’: Elie Honig Reacts To Possible Second Indictment of President’s Son

Special Counsel David Weiss is using a California grand jury to obtain documents and testimony from potential witnesses in his investigation into Hunter Biden, according to a CNN report published Thursday night. The report further stated that James Biden, who is Hunter’s uncle and President Joe Biden’s brother, received a subpoena in recent weeks.

The case is believed to center on Hunter Biden’s failure to pay taxes – a matter that was set to be resolved in a plea deal in federal court in Delaware in August, only to fall through at the last moment. Subsequently, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Weiss as special counsel, thus broadening his powers, which he appears to be using to expand the scope of his inquiry to southern California.

CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig said these developments bode poorly for the president’s son.

“It’s bad news for Hunter Biden any way you slice this,” he said. “Let’s remember, he already has a pending indictment in the federal district court in Delaware for the firearms-related charges.”

Honig went on to note that the convening of a grand jury does not mean an indictment is certain, but “more likely”:

And now he potentially is looking at a second indictment out of California. And if we think about the potential tax charges here, it’s important to keep in mind, when Hunter Biden went into court a few months ago with DOJ, they had a deal that he was going plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses, and they agreed. DOJ and Hunter Biden agreed that he had failed to pay over $1 million in income taxes that he owed.

So assuming, which I think is a fair assumption that DOJ has evidence of that, that feels like the minimum charges he may face. It may get worse. But it’s important to understand the fact that there’s a grand jury does not ensure that there will be an indictment, but it certainly does make it more likely. And that’s a problem.

Watch above via CNN.