Republikaner verbreiten Verschwörungstheorien nach Urteil gegen Hunter Biden: „Ein Scheinprozess“

>Republicans responded to [Hunter Biden](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/hunter-biden)’s [conviction](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jun/11/hunter-biden-gun-charges-verdict) on Tuesday of lying about his drug use to buy a gun by doubling down on conspiracy theories that many senior party figures have been using to try and damage his president father.

>Despite the fact that Joe Biden’s son could now face a hefty jail sentence, Donald Trump’s election campaign and its surrogates repeated unfounded attack lines that the conviction was part of a conspiracy to deflect attention from more serious crimes and represented the use of the Department of Justice (DoJ) as a political weapon.

>Republicans have long sought to use Hunter Biden’s woes and business dealings as a political weapon against Biden, ignoring the fact that Trump himself is also now a convicted felon whose own business empire has been fined hundreds of millions of dollars for fraudulent practises…