Trump says Biden is ‘not too old’ to be president but claims he is ‘grossly incompetent’ – US politics live

Here’s a recap of today’s developments:

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• Federal prosecutors indicted Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over illegally possessing a firearm in Delaware. The indictment comes a month after the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed the US attorney David Weiss, a Trump nominee, to oversee the investigation as special counsel. Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.

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• The charges against Hunter Biden come in the same week as House Republicans formally opened an impeachment inquiry into the president, seeking to tie Joe Biden to his son’s business dealings. James Comer, the chair of the House oversight committee leading the Republican charge for the inquiry, said the charges against Hunter Biden are “a very small start”.

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• Joe Biden has said Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry against him because “they want to shut down the government”.

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• A Georgia judge has ruled that Donald Trump and 16 others will be tried separately from two defendants, lawyers Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who are set to go to trial next month in the case accusing them of participating in an illegal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The Fulton county district attorney, Fani Willis, had been pushing to try all 19 defendants together.

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• Mark Meadows, the former Trump White House chief of staff, withdrew his motion for an emergency stay in proceedings against him in the Fulton county court. Meadows had requested to transfer his Georgia 2020 election interference case from state to federal court on the basis that some of the charged conduct was within the scope of his official duties.

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• Nancy Pelosi seemed to offer a less-than-ringing endorsement when asked if Kamala Harris was the best running mate for Joe Biden next year, saying: “He thinks so, and that’s what matters.” Pelosi, however, spoke glowingly of her fellow Californian’s political skills.

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• Donald Trump said Joe Biden is “not too old at all” to be president but that he was “grossly incompetent”. In an interview with Megyn Kelly, the former president also said he didn’t know who gave top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation – despite the fact that it was him.

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Trump impeachment: Trump seeks to divert attention from his impeachment inquiry towards Hunter’s business dealings in China and Ukraine.

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2020 presidential election: Trump repeatedly attacks Joe Biden over his family’s overseas business ties.

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December 2020: A month after his father wins the presidential election, Hunter confirms a Delaware attorney has been investigating his “tax affairs”. He says he had learned of the investigation, overseen by Trump-appointed US attorney David Weiss, from his lawyer a day before he confirmed it publicly. The investigation had been temporarily paused in the months leading up to the election.

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April 2023: An anonymous IRS whistleblower sends a letter to Congress saying the investigation into Hunter’s finances was mishandled.

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20 June 2023: Hunter is expected to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors after a federal court in Delaware announced it had reached a deal that was set to shield him from jail time over gun charges in a separate case.

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19 July 2023: Two former agents at the IRS, including the previously anonymous whistleblower, testify at a GOP-lead House oversight hearing that DoJ officials “constantly hamstrung, limited and marginalized” the US attorney, Weiss, in his investigation into Hunter.

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26 July 2023: In a reversal, Hunter pleads not guilty to two tax misdemeanor charges after the judge, Maryellen Noreika, says she cannot accept the deal over a disagreement between the prosecution and Hunter’s legal team.

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The two sides settled a disagreement over whether Hunter could face future charges for violating foreign lobbying laws. After a short recess, his lawyers said they agreed with the DoJ’s interpretation that he could face additional charges, subject to further investigation.

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But Noreika again raises a question regarding a diversion agreement – where the prosecutor agrees to dismiss charges, with conditions – that would have cleared Hunter of his gun charges after two years if she found him to be compliant with the terms. Noreika said that power belonged to the DoJ, not her, and thus could not approve the deal.

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August 2023: This is the deadline Noreika sets for the two sides to file additional briefs defending the constitutionality of the original plea deal.

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Republican lawmakers are separately targeting the entire Biden family. The GOP-led House oversight committee is investigating whether the family’s business dealings harm US national security, and some extreme members are calling for impeachment.

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11 August 2023: Merrick Garland, the attorney general, appoints special counsel David Weiss to oversee Hunter’s case.

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14 September 2023: Hunter Biden is federally indicted with three felony counts, for illegally possessing a gun and making false statements when filling out paperwork to do so in 2018.

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Hunter Biden’s lawyer has responded to the indictment, releasing a statement that said special counsel David Weiss’ “bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice”.

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The statement by Abbe Lowell, reported by NBC News, says:

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As expected, prosecutors filed charges today that they deemed were not warranted just six weeks ago following a five-year investigation into this case.

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The evidence in this matter has not changed in the last six weeks, but the law has and so has Maga Republicans’ improper and partisan interference in this process. Hunter Biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 day was not a threat to public safety, but a prosecutor, with all the power imaginable, bending to political pressure presents a grave threat to our system of justice.

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We believe these charges are barred by the agreement the prosecutors made with Mr Biden, the recent rulings by several federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the facts that he did not violate that law, and we plan to demonstrate all of that in court.

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By a party-line vote, the Republican-dominated Wisconsin state senate has voted to oust the state’s top elections official, MeaganWolfe.

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The move advances the goal of election deniers and conspiracy theorists who falsely claim the 2020 election was stolen by Joe Biden. It’s the latest example of Wisconsin politicians repeatedly revisiting the 2020 election, despite the fact that numerous recounts and reviews of the last presidential election in Wisconsin affirmed Biden’s victory over former president Donald Trump.

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Josh Kaul, the Wisconsin attorney general, objected to the proceedings, which Republicans in the Senate advanced despite the bipartisan commission failing to put forward Wolfe’s recommendation to the legislature. Nonpartisan attorneys agreed with Kaul’s legal objection and the status of Wolfe’s position will almost certainly be decided in court.

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During the floor session, the Democratic senator Mark Spreitzer, who serves on the shared revenue, elections and consumer protection committee called the nomination “fake”, and accused Republicans in the senate of indulging conspiracy theorists by “relitigat[ing] the 2020 election”.

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Elections observers fear the transfer will harm voters’ confidence in Wisconsin elections. And if Wolfe is eliminated or steps down, her emptiness will affect elections clerks across the state who depend on her workplace’s steerage throughout elections.

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James Comer, the chair of the House oversight committee leading the Republican charge for an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, said today’s charges against the president son, Hunter Biden, are “a very small start”.

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Posting to X, formerly known as Twitter, Comer wrote:

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Unless U.S. Attorney [David] Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.

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🚨STATEMENT🚨

At this time’s expenses towards Hunter Biden are a really small begin, however until U.S. Lawyer Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.

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— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) September 14, 2023

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Federal prosecutors indicted Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over illegally possessing a firearm in Delaware on Thursday. The indictment comes a month after the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, appointed the US attorney David Weiss, a Trump nominee, to oversee the investigation as special counsel.

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Hunter Biden has been at the center of a years-long investigation into his tax affairs that was set to close with a guilty plea. But that plea deal fell apart at a Delaware courthouse after the Trump-appointed judge said she could not agree to the agreement, which ensured Biden would avoid jail time in a separate case of illegally possessing a gun while using drugs.

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Amid the controversy, the president has repeatedly said he supports his son and Hunter has been seen regularly at family events. Asked if President Biden would pardon his son in the event of any conviction, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, told reporters: “No.”

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But the younger Biden has been embroiled in a list of unrelated controversies for years, including his overseas dealings and struggles with addiction, which ex-President Trump and his allies have regularly sought to use as fodder for attacks.

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Here’s a comprehensive timeline of the moments that have propelled Hunter Biden into the limelight.

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Hunter Biden has been charged with three counts: two counts of making false statements by checking a box falsely saying he was not a user of or addicted to drugs and of illegally possessing the gun as a drug user, and one count for possessing the gun as a drug user.

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Two counts are punishable by up to 10 years in prison while the third carries up to five years in prison, upon conviction, AP reported.

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Hunter Biden has also been under investigation for his business dealings. The special counsel overseeing the case has indicated that charges of failure to pay taxes on time could be filed in Washington or in California, where he lives.

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Hunter Biden has been indicted by federal prosecutors on three criminal counts on firearm possession, according to court documents.

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The indictment was filed at the US district court in Delaware on Thursday and charges President Joe Biden’s 53-year-old son with unlawfully possessing a firearm as a drug addict.

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“Robert Hunter Biden, provided a written statement on Form 4473 certifying he was not an unlawful user of, and addicted to, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and any other controlled substance, when in fact, as he knew, that statement was false and fictitious,” the indictment said.

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The indictment brought special counsel David Weiss follows the collapse of a plea deal for Hunter Biden in July that would have seen him plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges and register in a program that would avoid prosecution on a gun-related charge.

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Mark Meadows, the former Trump White House chief of staff, has withdrawn his motion for an emergency stay in proceedings against him in the Fulton county court.

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Meadows had requested to transfer his Georgia 2020 election interference case from state to federal court on the basis that some of the charged conduct was within the scope of his official duties.

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From Politico’s Kyle Cheney:

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JUST IN: Mark MEADOWS has withdrawn his emegency motion to stay the Fulton County proceedings now that the state judge has officially severed him from the speedy trial group. https://t.co/x3q5dDuqMOpic.twitter.com/Q2ZsE41szD

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 14, 2023

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Donald Trump, in the interview with Megyn Kelly, said Joe Biden is “not too old at all” to be president but that he was “grossly incompetent”.

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Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Megyn Kelly Show, Trump said:

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Age is interesting because some people are very sharp and some people do lose it, but you lose it at 40 and 50, also.

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“But no, he’s not too old at all. He’s grossly incompetent,” he added.

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Trump, who at 77 is just a few years younger than 80-year-old Biden, said he had friends “that are in their 90s and they’re sharp as a tack”. He added:

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You know, there’s a great wisdom if you’re not in a position like [Biden] . However if you happen to return 25 years, he wasn’t the sharpest tack both.

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A Wall Avenue Journal poll earlier this month discovered that 73% of voters mentioned Biden is “too outdated to run for president” however simply 47% of voters mentioned the identical about Trump.

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Donald Trump said he didn’t know who gave Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease official who became the face of the US’s Covid-19 pandemic response, a presidential commendation in an interview with the ex-Fox News host Megyn Kelly.

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In a clip circulating on social media ahead of the interview’s release, Kelly questioned Trump over his elevation of Fauci during the pandemic. She said:

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Not only did you not fire Fauci, who is loathed by many – millions of Republicans in particular, but also some Democrats – you made him a star.

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Kelly said the former president had made Fauci the face of the White House coronavirus task force. “You think so?” Trump said. Kelly went on to say: “You actually gave him a presidential commendation before you left office. Wouldn’t you like a do-over on that?”

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Trump responded:

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I don’t know who gave him the commendation. I really don’t know who gave him the commendation.

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Trump, in an interview with Megyn Kelly, says he doesn't know who gave Fauci the presidential commendation pic.twitter.com/LRZnFXqMWO

— Joel Weingart (@JoelWeingart_) September 14, 2023

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Trump awarded a presidential commendation to Fauci in January 2021, a day before he left office.

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Florida governor and Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis traveled on private jets and enjoyed luxury travel and leisure time with wealthy donors that he failed to properly disclose, according to a Washington Post report.

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The report about DeSantis’s travel arrangements concerned “at least six undisclosed trips on private jets and … lodging and dining in late 2018”, when DeSantis was Florida governor-elect, having won power with Donald Trump’s endorsement.

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One of the undisclosed flights was to Augusta National in Georgia, home of the Masters golf tournament, the report said. The donor who supplied the jet, Mori Hosseini, also supplied a golf simulator for the governor’s mansion in Tallahassee.

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DeSantis also took four other flights on a plane registered to donor John Cwik, the paper said, adding that the governor did not report the flights or accommodations as gifts or campaign contributions.

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The report continues:

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The undisclosed trips, which have not been previously reported, reflect how DeSantis fueled his political rise through close bonds with rich patrons and had a taste for luxurytravel, in contrast to his campaign’s portrayal of DeSantis’s humble blue-collar roots and aversion to moneyed interests. His preference for private jet travel has continued into his White House bid, even as his campaign has struggled to rein in spending. In an unusual arrangement, the campaign is sharing some costs for private plane travel with the super PAC supporting him.

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Nancy Pelosi seemed to offer a less-than-ringing endorsement when asked if Kamala Harris was the best running mate for Joe Biden next year, saying:

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He thinks so, and that’s what matters.

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But the former House speaker also had praise for the vice-president, telling CNN:

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And, by the way, she’s very politically astute. I don’t think people give her enough credit. She’s … consistent with the president’s values and the rest.

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Anderson Cooper: "Is VP Kamala Harris the best running mate for this president?"

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): "He thinks so, and that's what matters. And by the way, she's very politically astute … People shouldn't underestimate what Kamala Harris brings to the table." pic.twitter.com/4VWW3unGd1

— The Recount (@therecount) September 14, 2023

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As Biden knows after eight years under Barack Obama, the vice-presidency has never been easy to fill. Harris may or may not agree with John Nance Garner’s famous observation, that the job he did for Franklin D Roosevelt wasn’t worth “a pitcher of warm piss”, but she has experienced familiar trials.

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Speculation over her performance and possible replacement has been constant. In a deeply sourced new book about the Biden White House, the author Franklin Foer describes Harris’s struggles to define her role.

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Nor does Harris enjoy favourable polling. Her approval rating – like Biden’s – has long been stuck at around 40%.

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The speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy, issued a challenge to hardline Republicans who have threatened to oust him during a closed-door GOP conference meeting this morning, according to reports.

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“If you want to the file the motion (to vacate),” McCarthy is reported by Axios to have said to a room of his colleagues, “file the fucking motion.”

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From Politico’s Olivia Beavers:

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Another source in room says this is the correct quote: “If you think you scare me because you want to file a motion to vacate, move the fucking motion” https://t.co/Qgw4n1JQCe

— Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) September 14, 2023

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A Georgia judge has ruled that Donald Trump and 16 allies will be tried separately from Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro in the 2020 election interference case.

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Powell and Chesebro had filed demands for a speedy trial. Fulton county superior judge Scott McAfee set their trials to begin 23 October, rejecting prosecutors’ request to try all 19 defendants at the same time.

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From my colleague Hugo Lowell:

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NEW: Judge Scott McAfee has ruled that former Trump lawyers Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell will go to trial on Oct. 23 in Fulton County without the other co-defendants in the 2020 election case. Not the outcome that the Fulton County FA wanted.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) September 14, 2023

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Good morning, US politics blog readers. Joe Biden brushed off the House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry over unproven corruption allegations relating to his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings, saying that he was “focused on the things the American people want me focused on”.

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In his first remarks since the speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy,announced on Tuesday he would formally open a Biden impeachment inquiry, the president linked the inquiry to the looming showdown over funding the government.

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“I don’t know quite why, but they just knew they wanted to impeach me,” Biden told donors at a Democratic fundraiser in Virginia on Wednesday night.

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Now, the best I can tell, they want to impeach me because they want to shut down the government.

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He insisted that instead of being concerned about the inquiry, “I get up every day, not a joke, not focused on impeachment. I’ve got a job to do.” Biden’s remarks came hours after White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre called the inquiry a “political stunt”.

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McCarthy’s move kicks off what are expected to be weeks of Republican-led hearings intended to convince Americans that the president profited from the business dealings of his son and other family members, but it is unclear if the GOP has the evidence to substantiate the long-running claims, or even the votes for impeachment.

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Here’s what else we’re watching today:

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• 8.30am Eastern time: House Republicans will hold a closed conference meeting

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• 11am: House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries will hold his weekly news conference.

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• 1.30pm: Joe Biden will leave for Largo, Maryland, where he will speak about Bidenomics at Prince George’s county community college.

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• 6.15pm: Biden will hold a call with rabbis in honor of Rosh Hashanah, which begins on Friday night.

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Right here’s a recap of at this time’s developments:

• Federal prosecutors indicted Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over illegally possessing a firearm in Delaware. The indictment comes a month after the US legal professional basic, Merrick Garland, appointed the US legal professional David Weiss, a Trump nominee, to supervise the investigation as particular counsel. Hunter Biden might withstand 25 years in jail if convicted.

• The fees towards Hunter Biden are available in the identical week as Home Republicans formally opened an impeachment inquiry into the president, in search of to tie Joe Biden to his son’s enterprise dealings. James Comer, the chair of the Home oversight committee main the Republican cost for the inquiry, mentioned the costs towards Hunter Biden are “a really small begin”.

• Joe Biden has mentioned Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry towards him as a result of “they wish to shut down the federal government”.

• A Georgia choose has dominated that Donald Trump and 16 others will probably be tried individually from two defendants, legal professionals Sidney Powell and Kenneth Chesebro, who’re set to go to trial subsequent month within the case accusing them of collaborating in an unlawful scheme to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 election. The Fulton county district legal professional, Fani Willis, had been pushing to strive all 19 defendants collectively.

• Mark Meadows, the previous Trump White Home chief of workers, withdrew his movement for an emergency keep in proceedings towards him within the Fulton county court docket. Meadows had requested to switch his Georgia 2020 election interference case from state to federal court docket on the idea that a number of the charged conduct was throughout the scope of his official duties.

• Nancy Pelosi appeared to supply a less-than-ringing endorsement when requested if Kamala Harris was the most effective working mate for Joe Biden subsequent 12 months, saying: “He thinks so, and that’s what issues.” Pelosi, nonetheless, spoke glowingly of her fellow Californian’s political abilities.

• Donald Trump mentioned Joe Biden is “not too outdated in any respect” to be president however that he was “grossly incompetent”. In an interview with Megyn Kelly, the previous president additionally mentioned he didn’t know who gave prime infectious illness official Anthony Fauci a presidential commendation – even supposing it was him.

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A timeline of moments that propelled Hunter Biden into the limelight

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Trump impeachment: Trump seeks to divert consideration from his impeachment inquiry in the direction of Hunter’s enterprise dealings in China and Ukraine.

2020 presidential election: Trump repeatedly assaults Joe Biden over his household’s abroad enterprise ties.

December 2020: A month after his father wins the presidential election, Hunter confirms a Delaware legal professional has been investigating his “tax affairs”. He says he had realized of the investigation, overseen by Trump-appointed US legal professional David Weiss, from his lawyer a day earlier than he confirmed it publicly. The investigation had been temporarily paused within the months main as much as the election.

April 2023: An nameless IRS whistleblower sends a letter to Congress saying the investigation into Hunter’s funds was mishandled.

20 June 2023: Hunter is anticipated to plead responsible to 2 tax misdemeanors after a federal court docket in Delaware introduced it had reached a deal that was set to defend him from jail time over gun expenses in a separate case.

19 July 2023: Two former brokers on the IRS, including the previously anonymous whistleblower, testify at a GOP-lead Home oversight listening to that DoJ officers “always hamstrung, restricted and marginalized” the US legal professional, Weiss, in his investigation into Hunter.

26 July 2023: In a reversal, Hunter pleads not responsible to 2 tax misdemeanor expenses after the choose, Maryellen Noreika, says she can not settle for the deal over a disagreement between the prosecution and Hunter’s authorized group.

The 2 sides settled a disagreement over whether or not Hunter might face future expenses for violating overseas lobbying legal guidelines. After a brief recess, his legal professionals mentioned they agreed with the DoJ’s interpretation that he might face further expenses, topic to additional investigation.

However Noreika once more raises a query relating to a diversion settlement – the place the prosecutor agrees to dismiss expenses, with circumstances – that might have cleared Hunter of his gun expenses after two years if she discovered him to be compliant with the phrases. Noreika mentioned that energy belonged to the DoJ, not her, and thus couldn’t approve the deal.

August 2023: That is the deadline Noreika units for the 2 sides to file further briefs defending the constitutionality of the unique plea deal.

Republican lawmakers are individually focusing on your entire Biden household. The GOP-led Home oversight committee is investigating whether or not the household’s enterprise dealings hurt US nationwide safety, and a few excessive members are calling for impeachment.

11 August 2023: Merrick Garland, the legal professional basic, appoints particular counsel David Weiss to supervise Hunter’s case.

14 September 2023: Hunter Biden is federally indicted with three felony counts, for illegally possessing a gun and making false statements when filling out paperwork to take action in 2018.

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Alice Herman

In Wisconsin, Democratic legal professional basic Josh Kaul introduced he had filed a lawsuit towards Republican leaders, over the ousting of nonpartisan elections administrator Meagan Wolfe.

Wolfe turned lightning rod for conspiracy theories throughout the 2020 elections. Teams and people that unfold falsehoods about widespread voter fraud within the 2020 election obsessed over Wolfe, publishing missives in Gateway Pundit, a web site that peddles misinformation and incomes a warning from state capitol police for allegedly stalking her.

State lawmakers, largely focusing their criticisms on pandemic-related insurance policies just like the expanded use of poll drop packing containers and the steerage for nursing dwelling voting, joined the chorus calling for Wolfe’s ouster.

“The story at this time just isn’t what the senate has presupposed to do with its vote,” he mentioned in a press release. “It’s that the senate has blatantly disregarded state legislation to be able to put its full stamp of approval on the continued baseless assaults on our democracy.”

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Hunter Biden lawyer says indictment resolution is ‘bending to political strain’

Hunter Biden’s lawyer has responded to the indictment, releasing a press release that mentioned particular counsel David Weiss’ “bending to political strain presents a grave menace to our system of justice”.

The assertion by Abbe Lowell, reported by NBC Information, says:

As anticipated, prosecutors filed expenses at this time that they deemed weren’t warranted simply six weeks in the past following a five-year investigation into this case.

The proof on this matter has not modified within the final six weeks, however the legislation has and so has Maga Republicans’ improper and partisan interference on this course of. Hunter Biden possessing an unloaded gun for 11 day was not a menace to public security, however a prosecutor, with all the ability conceivable, bending to political strain presents a grave menace to our system of justice.

He added:

We imagine these expenses are barred by the settlement the prosecutors made with Mr Biden, the latest rulings by a number of federal courts that this statute is unconstitutional, and the info that he didn’t violate that legislation, and we plan to show all of that in court docket.

No less than half a dozen Home Republicans say they’re open to supporting a movement to oust the speaker, Kevin McCarthy, within the occasion of a flooring vote, based on a CNN report.

The subject has come up in latest Home Freedom caucus conferences, with some members feeling like McCarthy violated his phrases to turn into speaker, the report says. It writes:

If all Democrats assist the transfer, as a lot of them are signaling they’d, it might take simply 5 Republicans to succeed, thrusting the Home into chaos. At that time, the Home can be paralyzed till a brand new speaker is elected.

The Republican Florida congressman Matt Gaetz dismissed the indictment of Hunter Biden, evaluating it to charging the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer with littering.

Matt Gaetz: "Getting Hunter Biden on the gun cost is like getting Jeffrey Dahmer on littering."
MTG needs Biden inquiry to take a "very long time"
Dem Dan Goldman says Hunter ought to be held accountable if he dedicated crimes. "You don't hear any Republicans" saying that about Trump pic.twitter.com/fAQsmcm6BH

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 14, 2023

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Matt Gaetz: “Getting Hunter Biden on the gun cost is like getting Jeffrey Dahmer on littering.”
MTG needs Biden inquiry to take a “very long time”
Dem Dan Goldman says Hunter ought to be held accountable if he dedicated crimes. “You do not hear any Republicans” saying that about Trump pic.twitter.com/fAQsmcm6BH

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) September 14, 2023

Hunter Biden has been charged by federal prosecutors with mendacity about his drug use when he purchased a gun in 2018, in the identical week as Home Republicans formally opened an impeachment inquiry into the president, in search of to tie Joe Biden to his son’s enterprise dealings.

A court filing within the US district court docket in Delaware alleged Biden, 53, illegally obtained and possessed a Colt revolver in October 2018 after falsely declaring that he was not a person of, or hooked on, narcotic medicine. He has been charged with two counts of constructing false statements by checking a field falsely saying he was not a person of or hooked on medicine and a 3rd depend for possessing the gun as a drug person.

The firearms indictment comes weeks after a plea deal collapsed that might have ensured Hunter Biden would keep away from a prison trial as his father runs for reelection for the 2024 presidential election.

On Tuesday, Home speaker Kevin McCarthy introduced he’s launching a proper impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden. Based on McCarthy, findings from Republican-led investigations over the summer time recess revealed “a tradition of corruption”, and that Biden lied about his lack of involvement and information of his household’s abroad enterprise dealings.

Most of the allegations heart on Hunter Biden, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian vitality firm, Burisma, throughout his father’s time period as vice-president. Republicans allege that Joe Biden improperly benefited from his son’s overseas connections however, after a number of months, have produced no proof. Watchdog teams say Republicans don’t even have proof to again up their claims.

Wisconsin Republicans vote to fireside prime election official

Alice Herman

By a party-line vote, the Republican-dominated Wisconsin state senate has voted to oust the state’s prime elections official, MeaganWolfe.

The transfer advances the aim of election deniers and conspiracy theorists who falsely declare the 2020 election was stolen by Joe Biden. It’s the most recent instance of Wisconsin politicians repeatedly revisiting the 2020 election, even supposing quite a few recounts and evaluations of the final presidential election in Wisconsin affirmed Biden’s victory over former president Donald Trump.

Josh Kaul, the Wisconsin legal professional basic, objected to the proceedings, which Republicans within the Senate superior regardless of the bipartisan fee failing to place ahead Wolfe’s advice to the legislature. Nonpartisan attorneys agreed with Kaul’s authorized objection and the standing of Wolfe’s place will virtually actually be determined in court docket.

Throughout the flooring session, the Democratic senator Mark Spreitzer, who serves on the shared income, elections and shopper safety committee referred to as the nomination “faux”, and accused Republicans within the senate of indulging conspiracy theorists by “relitigat[ing] the 2020 election”.

Elections observers fear the transfer will harm voters’ confidence in Wisconsin elections. And if Wolfe is eliminated or steps down, her emptiness will affect elections clerks across the state who depend on her workplace’s steerage throughout elections.

James Comer says Hunter Biden indictment is ‘a really small begin’

James Comer, the chair of the Home oversight committee main the Republican cost for an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden, mentioned at this time’s expenses towards the president son, Hunter Biden, are “a really small begin”.

Posting to X, previously referred to as Twitter, Comer wrote:

Except U.S. Lawyer [David] Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.

🚨STATEMENT🚨

At this time’s expenses towards Hunter Biden are a really small begin, however until U.S. Lawyer Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.

Learn👇 pic.twitter.com/XA7IbQFtyy

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) September 14, 2023

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🚨STATEMENT🚨

At this time’s expenses towards Hunter Biden are a really small begin, however until U.S. Lawyer Weiss investigates everybody concerned within the fraud schemes and affect peddling, it is going to be clear President Biden’s DOJ is defending Hunter Biden and the massive man.

Learn👇 pic.twitter.com/XA7IbQFtyy

— Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) September 14, 2023

Timeline of moments that pushed Hunter Biden into the highlight

Federal prosecutors indicted Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, over illegally possessing a firearm in Delaware on Thursday. The indictment comes a month after the US legal professional basic, Merrick Garland, appointed the US legal professional David Weiss, a Trump nominee, to supervise the investigation as particular counsel.

Hunter Biden has been on the heart of a years-long investigation into his tax affairs that was set to shut with a responsible plea. However that plea deal fell aside at a Delaware courthouse after the Trump-appointed choose mentioned she couldn’t comply with the settlement, which ensured Biden would keep away from jail time in a separate case of illegally possessing a gun whereas utilizing medicine.

Amid the controversy, the president has repeatedly mentioned he helps his son and Hunter has been seen repeatedly at household occasions. Requested if President Biden would pardon his son within the occasion of any conviction, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White Home press secretary, advised reporters: “No.”

However the youthful Biden has been embroiled in a listing of unrelated controversies for years, together with his abroad dealings and struggles with dependancy, which ex-President Trump and his allies have repeatedly sought to make use of as fodder for assaults.

Right here’s a complete timeline of the moments which have propelled Hunter Biden into the limelight.

Hunter Biden might face most of 25 years in jail if convicted on gun expenses

Hunter Biden has been charged with three counts: two counts of constructing false statements by checking a field falsely saying he was not a person of or hooked on medicine and of illegally possessing the gun as a drug person, and one depend for possessing the gun as a drug person.

Two counts are punishable by as much as 10 years in jail whereas the third carries as much as 5 years in jail, upon conviction, AP reported.

Hunter Biden has additionally been beneath investigation for his enterprise dealings. The particular counsel overseeing the case has indicated that expenses of failure to pay taxes on time might be filed in Washington or in California, the place he lives.

Republican reactions to Hunter Biden’s indictment are beginning to emerge on-line, with far-right Georgia consultant Marjorie Taylor Greene asking:

“However the place are the indictments for tax fraud, FARA abuse, cash laundering, and intercourse trafficking???”

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Hunter Biden has been indicted for 3 counts of federal gun expenses

However the place are the indictments for tax fraud, FARA abuse, cash laundering, and intercourse trafficking??? pic.twitter.com/tOGdH6Uku1

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 14, 2023

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🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Hunter Biden has been indicted for 3 counts of federal gun expenses

However the place are the indictments for tax fraud, FARA abuse, cash laundering, and intercourse trafficking??? pic.twitter.com/tOGdH6Uku1

— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) September 14, 2023

FARA refers back to the Overseas Brokers Registration Act which requires people who interact in specified actions throughout the US on behalf of a overseas principal to register with and disclose these actions to the justice division.

Hunter Biden has drawn ire because of his abroad enterprise dealings involving nations together with Ukraine and China.

Hunter Biden indicted on gun expenses – court docket paperwork

Hunter Biden has been indicted by federal prosecutors on three prison counts on firearm possession, based on court docket paperwork.

The indictment was filed on the US district court docket in Delaware on Thursday and expenses President Joe Biden’s 53-year-old son with unlawfully possessing a firearm as a drug addict.

“Robert Hunter Biden, supplied a written assertion on Kind 4473 certifying he was not an illegal person of, and hooked on, any stimulant, narcotic drug, and every other managed substance, when actually, as he knew, that assertion was false and fictitious,” the indictment mentioned.

The indictment introduced particular counsel David Weiss follows the collapse of a plea deal for Hunter Biden in July that might have seen him plead responsible to 2 misdemeanor tax expenses and register in a program that might keep away from prosecution on a gun-related cost.

Throughout the interview between Megyn Kelly and Donald Trump, they mentioned the query Kelly requested Trump in 2015 throughout the Republican main debate by which Kelly requested:

“You’ve referred to as ladies you don’t like fats pigs, canines, slobs and disgusting animals.”

Recalling the query, Trump mentioned, “That was a badd query.”

Kelly replied, “That was an awesome query,” to which Trump mentioned, “That was a nasty query.”

Trump continued to defend his 2015 reply to the query (“Solely Rosie O’Donnell”) and mentioned, “I got here up with a great reply.”

Donald Trump and @MegynKelly rehash THAT debate second from 2015:

"That was a nasty query…"

"That was an awesome query…"

"You dealt with it effectively, your ballot numbers went up…"

"…I got here up with a great reply."

FULL one-hour interview tomorrow:https://t.co/YJPxz5Gu8dpic.twitter.com/QpxFG13W0O

— The Megyn Kelly Present (@MegynKellyShow) September 14, 2023

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Trump co-defendant Mark Meadows withdraws movement to pause Georgia case

Mark Meadows, the previous Trump White Home chief of workers, has withdrawn his movement for an emergency keep in proceedings towards him within the Fulton county court docket.

Meadows had requested to switch his Georgia 2020 election interference case from state to federal court docket on the idea that a number of the charged conduct was throughout the scope of his official duties.

From Politico’s Kyle Cheney:

JUST IN: Mark MEADOWS has withdrawn his emegency movement to remain the Fulton County proceedings now that the state choose has formally severed him from the speedy trial group. https://t.co/x3q5dDuqMOpic.twitter.com/Q2ZsE41szD

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) September 14, 2023

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Martin Pengelly

Joe Biden has mentioned Republicans launched an impeachment inquiry towards him as a result of “they wish to shut down the federal government”.

With out settlement on new funding by 30 September, the federal authorities will not less than partly shut down. Laborious-right Republicans are demanding cuts to some spending and will increase in different areas, notably immigration enforcement. Some made an impeachment inquiry – relating to the enterprise affairs of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, and unsubstantiated allegations of corruption involving Joe Biden – a situation of assist for maintaining the federal government open.

Given he should run the Home with only a five-seat majority, the Home speaker, Kevin McCarthy, is on the mercy of such strain.

With greater than 5 Republicans having expressed skepticism about whether or not impeachment can be merited, McCarthy skipped a vote on whether or not to open an inquiry.

That adopted the instance of Nancy Pelosi, his Democratic predecessor, who did not hold a House vote earlier than proceedings towards Donald Trump started in 2019. Notably, it additionally opened McCarthy to accusations of hypocrisy, on condition that he excoriated Pelosi and advised rightwing information shops on the time that he would maintain a vote.

After an inquiry, impeachment have to be voted on by the complete Home. A sure vote sends the president to the Senate for trial. A vote there decides if the president will probably be acquitted, or convicted and eliminated.

Trump was impeached twice, first for in search of political grime on the Biden household and others in Ukraine, then for inciting the January 6 assault on Congress. The second Trump impeachment was essentially the most bipartisan in historical past, with 10 Home Republicans voting to question and 7 Republican senators voting to convict. However sufficient Senate Republicans stayed loyal to see Trump acquitted.

The opposite impeached presidents – Andrew Johnson (1868) and Invoice Clinton (1998) – additionally survived Senate trials. As Democrats now maintain the Senate, the hassle towards Biden stands subsequent to no probability of succeeding.