With just weeks until Hunter Biden is sentenced by California and Delaware judges, his lawyers on Saturday released a lengthy document titled “The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden” that argued his gun and tax evasion convictions this year were politically motivated. The 52-page document pushed for clemency by alleging President-elect Donald Trump would turn the country’s justice system against Hunter Biden once he takes office on Jan. 20, 2024. 

“A system that is supposed to protect against abuses failed to do so and was corrupted by political leaders in this country,” the document said. “As a result, Hunter faces significant sentences for felonies and misdemeanors far beyond precedents of others committing less serious offenses or where civil resolutions or consent judgments are normally sought — all on the basis of his mistakes, made while in the throes of serious drug addiction.”

Special counsel David Weiss has overseen the investigation into Hunter Biden for over a year. President Joe Biden’s head of the Department of Justice, Attorney General Merrick Garland, appointed Weiss to lead the investigation in August 2023. Weiss’s team is staffed with attorneys from the Biden administration’s DOJ.