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Hunter Biden’s tax indictment presents fresh political challenge as his father arrives in LA

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, departs the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building and United States Courthouse on July 26, 2023, in Wilmington, Delaware.

LOS ANGELES — As President Joe Biden arrived in Los Angeles on Friday for a weekend of fundraising among Hollywood elite, his only living son was hit with his second grand jury indictment this year — with the special counsel accusing the younger Biden of various tax crimes.

Hunter Biden has long served as a political punching bag for his father’s opponents, and the latest indictment, in L.A., along with another in Delaware charging him with firearms violations, has the president’s son facing two trials on opposite coasts while his father makes the case for reelection to the country.

The younger Biden asserted in an interview for the podcast “MobyPod,” released Friday, that the

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