New emails reveal that the U.S. Secret Service may have “protected” President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, from a police probe involving his gun.
Conservative nonprofit Judicial Watch obtained 487 pages of Secret Service records about the October 2018 incident, when Hallie Biden, Hunter’s brother’s widow and then-girlfriend, left his .38 handgun in a supermarket trash can in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Secret Service emails started in October 2020 when an agent—whose identity has been withheld—sent a colleague a link to a story from The Blaze about the gun incident.
“It’s kind of odd that we were involved in the missing gun investigation when neither Hunter or Joe were even receiving USSS protection at the time? Hmmm,” a specialist in the agency’s Protective Intelligence and Assessment Division wrote to their colleagues.
“Maybe we were asked for a favor?” another agent replied to the thread.
As a former vice president, Joe Biden and his family were not being protected by the Secret Service at the time of the incident.
“The Secret Service is being cagey about what it did for Hunter and I believe Hunter when he said the FBI and Secret Service had intervened for him,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
“In my view this is another example of Hunter and the Bidens getting taken care of and getting protected from the consequences of bad behavior — in this case this domestic issue which led to this gun being disposed of in an unsafe manner,” he continued.
Hunter’s 2018 purchase of a gun is thought to be connected to the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation into his personal and professional activities. David Weiss, a U.S. attorney from Delaware, is in charge of the probe.
This comes as Republican lawmakers seek to investigate Hunter’s infamous laptop, which allegedly revealed a scheme to sell his father’s influence for millions of dollars to American adversaries.
“With respect to the investigation we’re conducting, we have reason to believe that Hunter Biden has had some contacts that would be of concern to our national security,” Republican Kentucky Rep. James Comer said.
The younger Biden is also currently under federal criminal investigation after banks flagged four of his transactions as “potential criminal activity,” including a suspicious deposit of $100,000 that came from China.
