EyeQ Tech review EyeQ Tech EyeQ Tech tuyển dụng review công ty eyeq tech eyeq tech giờ ra sao EyeQ Tech review EyeQ Tech EyeQ Tech tuyển dụng seafood export seafood export seafood export seafood export seafood export seafood export seafood food soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crab soft-shell crabs soft-shell crabs soft-shell crabs soft-shell crabs soft-shell crabs double skinned crabs
Politics

Joe and Hunter Biden attend church, visit Beau Biden’s grave days before first son’s federal trial

By
Steven Nelson
Published May 30, 2024, 10:25 a.m. ET

WILMINGTON, Del. — President Biden and first son Hunter Biden attended church together Thursday morning, four days before jury selection begins in the younger Biden’s trial on federal gun charges.

Biden, 81, and Hunter, 54, attended Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church on the ninth anniversary of the death of Joe Biden’s elder son, Beau.

Photographers captured Hunter and his father walking near each other outside the church’s cemetery, where Beau is buried, though it was unclear if any words were exchanged.

US President Joe Biden, in a suit and tie, walking outside of Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware, near the cemetery where his son Beau is buried.
President Biden and first son Hunter Biden attended church together Thursday morning. AFP via Getty Images
Hunter Biden walking outside Saint Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church in Wilmington, Delaware on the ninth anniversary of Beau Biden's death
Jury selection for Hunter Biden’s federal trial will begin in four days. AFP via Getty Images

Hunter and Joe Biden then took the presidential helicopter, Marine One, to the first family’s holiday home at nearby Rehoboth Beach, where Biden will remain for the rest of the day.

On Sunday, the president made a surprise visit to the home of Beau’s widow, Hallie Biden, who dated Hunter after his brother died, and who is one of a dozen expected witnesses at the trial.

Hunter Biden is accused of illegally purchasing a .38-caliber Colt revolver in October 2018 by lying about his drug addiction on federal paperwork. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all three counts.

Hunter Biden and family members walking towards Beau Biden's gravesite at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church on the anniversary of his death, with U.S. President Joe Biden present
Biden and Hunter attended Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Roman Catholic Church on the ninth anniversary of the death of Joe Biden’s elder son, Beau. REUTERS
U.S. President Joe Biden with family walking towards the gravesite of late son Beau at St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church, on the anniversary of Beau's death
Photographers captured Hunter and his father walking near each other outside the church’s cemetery. REUTERS

Hallie disposed of the gun in a public dumpster days after its purchase. Prosecutors say the gun’s holder tested positive for cocaine, which the first son admitted in his 2021 memoir he was using about the same time.

Hunter agreed to a probation-only plea deal to gun and tax crimes last June, but walked away from the “sweetheart” bargain during a dramatic court hearing at which he demanded broad immunity for past conduct, including possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act — which could implicate his father.

Hunter also is scheduled to stand trial in Los Angeles in September for allegedly failing to pay more than $1.4 million in federal taxes from 2016 to 2019 on foreign income received from overseas relationships in which he frequently involved his father, including during Joe Biden’s vice presidency.