Hunter Biden’s attorney said on Friday that his client was “in the midst of a horrific addiction” during an investigation conducted by the Department of Justice (DOJ), and that his behavior at the time and what Joe Biden had to do with “what has nothing to do with it,” he said.

The documents revealed Thursday that an IRS whistleblower testified that Hunter Biden threatened Chinese business people with text messages in 2017 about sitting next to Joe Biden. The alleged text messages were part of a large Justice Department investigation into Hunter Biden that began in 2018 “as an outgrowth of an investigation being conducted by the IRS against a foreign-based amateur online pornography platform.” It’s been found.

The president has repeatedly claimed he knew nothing of his son’s business dealings.

Hunter Biden’s attorney, Chris Clark, said, “The DOJ investigation was targeted at what has been a period of turmoil and addiction for my client. I am in the midst of a horrible addiction. ‘s client’s verifiable words and actions are all his own and have nothing to do with anyone in his family.”

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Clark also alleged that the IRS whistleblower’s congressional testimony was “illegal,” suggesting that one of the whistleblowers was “a very biased person.”

“Any conclusions or inferences based on this document are misleading and dangerous,” Clark said.

Gary Shapley said: “The Delaware Attorney’s Office, the Office of Justice and Taxation, and the Department of Justice offered preferential treatment and flouted conflicts in the important and high-profile investigation of the President’s son, Hunter Biden. I came forward as a whistleblower.” ” (Related article: U.S. prosecutor accuses whistleblower that ‘optics’ are weighted in Biden’s home search in hunter investigation)

The president has repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about his son’s business dealings, and the White House announced Friday that “the president did not do business with his son.”