May 5, 2023 10:30am EDT
White House reportedly 'worried' over Hunter Biden going rogue with legal defense plan: 'Legitimate headache'
Biden has moved to a more 'combative' legal defense approach as investigations mount
By Gabriel Hays | Fox News
According to an Axios report, Hunter Biden has "clashed" with top aides to President Joe Biden over his legal defense strategy.
The report claimed Friday that "tensions" between Hunter Biden and President Biden's aides over his legal defense have led Hunter Biden to hire a new lawyer for a more "combative approach" without consulting with his father’s legal advisors.
A former top DOJ spokesman noted that the younger Biden going rogue with his legal decisions and perhaps pushing past the "guardrails" that the president’s advisers would have him follow, could be "a legitimate headache the White House."
The tensions between Hunter Biden and the White House over his legal defense have risen as the president’s son is facing investigations on several fronts. There’s the DOJ investigation into his potential charges of tax fraud and illegally purchasing a firearm, investigations into his alleged business corruption by Republicans in Congress, and also a child support court case in Arkansas.
The piece began with the statement, "Top aides to President Biden have clashed with Hunter Biden's team over strategies for dealing with the legal battles and Republican attacks that surround the president's son."
As Axios noted, much of the heartburn over legal strategies has prompted Biden’s decision to hire new lawyer Abbe Lowell – who recently represented former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner – without input from his father’s people.
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