Hunter Biden trial live: Jill Biden returns to court to hear opening statements in stepson’s trial

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Hunter Biden will return to federal court Delaware this morning for opening statements in his weapons trial.

Attorney General Merrick Garland will appear Congress to defend his handling of the special counsel’s report on Biden’s handling of classified documents.

The president will also sign an executive action at the border later on Tuesday to crack down on migrant crossings, a move his critics are calling an election stunt.

Hunter Biden has arrived in court in Delaware for opening statements in his federal gun trial.

He walked hand in hand with his wife Melissa Cohen into the building and was followed by stepmother Jill and half-sister Ashley.

President Joe Biden says he wishes he had ended Donald Trump’s border policies even sooner — despite making many of his reversals on day one.

In conversation with Time MagazineBiden emphasized that the implementation of humanitarian policies for illegal immigrants has not worsened the migrant crisis at the southern border.

He stood by his decision to reverse Trump’s restrictive border policies and says he only wishes he did so sooner — even as the president prepares to issue an executive order this week to close the border once it reaches 4,000 border crossings per day.

“If I was wrong, it’s because it took too long,” the president told Time.

Nearly 8 million illegal immigrants have crossed the southern border since he took office in January 2021, and recent estimates put the number of undocumented immigrants living in the U.S. at over 20 million.

Biden says he is not exploring reintroducing Trump’s so-called Remain in Mexico program.

Senior Hamas official Sami Abu Zuhri said Tuesday that the Palestinian militant group frowns on Washington and the West’s calls to accept President Joe Biden’s proposal on Gaza “as if it is Hamas that is obstructing the deal.”

In comments reported by Hamas media, Abu Zuhri said Israel is not serious about reaching an agreement in Gaza and is still maneuvering under the guise of the US.

Joe Biden hit back at concerns that he won’t be an effective president at 85.

In an extensive interview with Time magazine81-year-old Biden was asked about many Americans who already think he is too old.

“I can do it better than anyone you know. You’re looking at me, I can take you too, he told the reporter.

When asked if he wasn’t considering running because of his age, he replied bluntly, “No.”

DailyMail.com breaks down all the evidence federal prosecutors will use against the president’s son when opening statements begin.

Hunter also faces federal tax charges Los Angeles and will stand trial in that case in September, just weeks before the presidential election.

If Hunter BidenThe historic gun case started in Wilmington, Delaware On Monday, all eyes will be on the Trump-appointed judge hearing the case: Judge Maryellen Noreika.

Politico reported this on Sunday that Noreika last month doubled the recommended sentence of a defendant who pleaded guilty to a similar weapon charge crime.

On May 2, Noreika ruled that defendant Zhi Dong should receive a year in prison – not the six months prosecutors had suggested.

Dong was accused of lying on government forms about his address when he bought guns in Delaware.

He purchased 19 handguns and 10 lower receivers in Delaware using a Newark, Delaware address and a Delaware driver’s license from several federal firearms licensees in the state.

After nearly eight million apprehensions at the southern border since taking office, President Joe Biden is finally prepared to take an executive action this week that would crack down on illegal immigration.

But with just five months until the 2024 presidential election, Speaker of the House of Representatives Mike Johnson says it’s “too little, too late” and Republicans have called the move an election stunt.

He also claims that despite plans for just one executive order, Biden and the DHS secretary could close the border Alejandro Mayorkas have already taken 64 other actions since January 2021 ‘to open the border.’

Illegal immigration and the crisis at the southern border remain a top issue for voters in November — and Biden wants to finally take action after years of pressure to crack down.

By some estimates, the number of illegal immigrants in the United States exceeds twenty million. And the number of escapes continues to elude even top immigration officials.

President Joe Biden broke cover after son’s first day Hunter Biden‘s trial by fire to raise money for his re-election bid at a glitzy house in Greenwich, Connecticut.

After spending a day in Wilmington, Delaware With nothing planned, the president addressed high-dollar donors at the former president’s home Monday evening HBO boss Richard Plepler.

He warned of the “uncharted territory” the campaign was entering after the former president Donald Trump became a felon – and raised a whopping $141 million in May.

“This man does not deserve to be president, whether I run or not,” the 81-year-old presumptive Democratic nominee said.

Biden noted that “for the first time in American history, a former president who is a convicted felon is now seeking the office of president.”