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Just a couple hours after his son Hunter was found guilty on three federal gun charges, Joe Biden is set to speak at Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund’s “Gun Sense University” conference.
And even CNN is noting that the timing is particularly awkward for him.
While it’s an important topic for the president’s reelection run, the speech comes at an awkward moment politically and personally for the Biden family: The president’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty Tuesday morning of three felonies related to lying on federal forms that require gun purchasers to affirm they are not addicted to drugs while buying a handgun in 2018 when he was in the midst of a serious addiction to crack cocaine.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the timing of Biden’s address and his son’s federal trial Tuesday morning.
While Biden has largely avoided commenting on his son’s trial – he said in an interview last week that he would respect the trial’s outcome and would not pardon his son – the verdict is sure to be at the top of his mind on Tuesday.
