Most voters in the U.S. (60%) believe that President Joe Biden was involved in an “illegal cover-up to hide his involvement in his son Hunter’s foreign business deals,” according Rasmussen Reports poll results released Monday.
This poll was conducted online and via telephone late last month.
In June, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that the U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware filed charges against Hunter. These included with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a felony firearm offense. Although the DOJ said at the time that the president’s son had entered into a plea deal, it had fallen apart by late July.
He “ended up pleading not guilty to federal tax charges when the judge began asking questions about the terms of the plea agreement,” per KNX Radio.
Reuters/Ipsos poll results from last month also indicated that 77% of Americans “say it is believable that Hunter Biden did not pay taxes in an effort to hide his income,” including a majority (66%) of Democrats. Even more Republicans (88%) and independents (80%) said they could believe it.
Approximately half of Americans (51%) said they thought Hunter Biden’s legal troubles are independent of and unrelated to Joe Biden’s service as president. Half of those polled by Reuters/Ipsos also believed that Hunter Biden “is receiving favorable treatment from U.S. prosecutors because he is President Joe Biden’s son,” though just 33% of Democrats believed that, compared to 75% of Republicans.
According to a Monday CNN report, Hunter Biden’s former business partner Devon Archer told the House Oversight Committee that Hunter “was selling the ‘illusion’ of access to his father,” citing a unnamed source.
“The source also reiterated that Archer provided no evidence connecting President Joe Biden to any of his son’s foreign business dealings,” said CNN. It also said the source clarified that the president’s son sold the illusion of access to Washington D.C. and knowledge about it.
White House spokesperson Ian Sams said in a statement Monday that “it appears that the House Republicans’ own much-hyped witness today testified that he never heard of President Biden discussing business with his son or his son’s associates, or doing anything wrong,” according to CBS News.
Last Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika gave federal prosecutors and Biden’s defense team 30 days to brief her and present a potential revised plea agreement regarding the charges announced by the DOJ. CBS said a ruling in that case could be delayed for weeks.
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