Hunter Biden ’s lawyers motioned Monday to again ask a judge to push back his federal gun trial that’s slated to begin next month in Delaware , arguing in part there’s no need for the case to push forward so quick. His lawyers are also arguing the trial, scheduled to begin June 3, would push too close to a separate trial the president’s son faces in California on tax charges. “There is no urgency in having an immediate trial of Robert Hunter Biden, but the district court is pressing forward with a June 3, 2024 trial and imposing all the pretrial burdens that come with that,” Biden’s lawyers wrote in Monday’s filing.
Hunter has already tried, and failed, to postpone the proceedings in Delaware. Those efforts drew comparisons to Donald Trump, who has also tried a bit of everything—with some success—to have his quartet of criminal trials constantly pushed back. Hunter’s trial is expected to be embarrassing for him and Joe Biden, as the charges stem from him allegedly lying about his drug use while purchasing and possessing a gun in 2018.
Those charges threaten to put him in prison for up to five years if convicted. Hunter has pleaded not guilty, claiming he possessed the firearm for less than two weeks and that the charges aren’t appropriate, despite him acknowledging he was addicted to crack cocaine at the time of the purchase. Monday’s motion asked a federal appeals court to re-hear his bid to have the indictment thrown out entirely—a particularly l.
