Federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys entered a courtroom late last month hoping a judge would approve the plea deal they’d struck, even though they had already publicly disagreed about a key element: what immunity it offered the president’s son from potential additional criminal charges.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
How a fight over immunity unraveled Hunter Biden’s plea deal
By Perry Stein
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Updated August 17, 2023 at 2:56 p.m. EDT|Published August 17, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT