11/15/2023

In Gun Case, Hunter Biden’s Lawyers Seek to Subpoena Donald Trump

New court filing aims to uncover evidence of probe's political direction

Lawyers for Hunter Biden have asked a federal court in Delaware to approve subpoenas for former president Donald Trump, his former attorney general William Barr and other former senior Justice Department officials, as Biden fights federal gun charges by seeking to show the probe was politically motivated.

In court papers filed Wednesday, Biden's legal team sought permission to issue the subpoenas to try to gather more information about "certain instances that appear to suggest incessant, improper, and partisan pressure applied by then President Trump to" Barr, as well as two of his former top deputies, Jeffrey Rosen and Richard Donoghue.

In a book, Barr has described getting angry at Trump for pressing him over the status of the Hunter Biden investigation, which was opened in 2018.

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