Biden Plans to Maintain a Low-Profile Approach During Hunter Trial

President Joe Biden and his top advisers are expected to focus on Hunter Biden’s felony gun charges trial starting on June 3 in Delaware, according to a report by NBC News cited on Friday.

While Joe Biden will be traveling overseas during parts of the trial, he will still monitor it as a concerned parent, as reported by NBC News, citing unnamed sources. 

Although the trial is impacting the president as a father, Biden’s advisers will be closely watching for any references to the president and will react accordingly on a case-by-case basis, NBC News reported.

It is expected that Joe Biden will be mentioned in the trial, as Hunter Biden’s text messages include exchanges with his father. Additionally, the trial is likely to shine a light on the family’s personal dynamics, with prosecutors planning to call Hunter Biden’s ex-wife and late brother Beau Biden’s widow to testify.

The trial is also expected to detail Hunter Biden’s struggles with drug addiction, according to the report by NBC News.

“The unknown certainly brings stress,” one Biden adviser told NBC News.

In a scheduled hearing on Friday in Delaware, Hunter Biden’s legal team was to argue for the exclusion of some evidence in the case, as reported by the outlet.

This trial, which marks the first time a sitting president’s child has been indicted, comes just five months before the presidential election and coincides with possible verdicts in Donald Trump’s fraud trial in New York.

The Biden team’s goal is to maintain a “deliberately low-key” approach, as mentioned by an unnamed source to NBC News.

“For the president and first lady, this is really about being there for their son as parents and showing him love and support,” a White House official told NBC News. The Biden campaign declined to comment.

This Delaware trial is the first legal challenge faced by Hunter Biden. Another trial in California, set to begin in September, focuses on tax charges related to the same investigation that began in 2018 under David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware.