JUST IN: Hunter Biden Requests Judge Subpoena Trump, Bill Barr For ‘Incessant, Improper, and Partisan Pressure’ On Tax Case
Hunter Biden’s legal team requested on Wednesday that the judge overseeing Biden’s federal case issue subpoenas to former President Donald Trump, former Attorney General Bill Barr, and others due to “incessant, improper, and partisan pressure” applied to Biden’s case during Trump’s time as president.
In addition to Trump and Barr, Biden’s team also named former Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue and former acting Attorney General Jeffrey A. Rosen in their request. The filing alleges that the named parties put undue attention on Biden’s case for partisan reasons, citing a “dedicated channel at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh to receive information about Mr. Biden coming from then President Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph Giuliani, and his associates.”
The filing stated:
[P]ublic reporting reveals certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, improper, and partisan pressure applied by then President Trump to Messrs. Rosen, Donoghue, and Barr in relation to an investigation of Mr. Biden. For example, on December 27, 2020, then Deputy Attorney General Donoghue took handwritten notes of a call with President Trump and Acting Attorney General Rosen, showing that Mr. Trump instructed Mr. Rosen and Mr. Donoghue to “figure out what to do with H[unter] Biden” and indicating Mr. Trump insisted that “people will criticize the DOJ if he’s not investigated for real.”
The filing also included this reported outburst by Barr to Trump:
Additionally, former Attorney General Barr’s latest book recalls an instance in mid-October 2020 in which President Trump called Mr. Barr and inquired about the investigation of Mr. Biden, which Mr. Barr says ended with Mr. Barr yelling at Mr. Trump, “Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!”
Cases such as these, the filing asserted, indicate “more than a mere appearance that President Trump improperly and unrelentingly pressured DOJ to pursue an investigation and prosecution of Mr. Biden to advance President Trump’s partisan ambitions.”
The filing also includes text of social media posts by Trump about wanting more pressure put on the Hunter Biden case, including sentencing the president’s son to death for his alleged crimes.
You can read the full filing here.
