A jury on Tuesday found Hunter Biden, President Biden’s son, guilty of three felonies related to the purchase of a gun at one of the low points of his troubled life. Katie Rogers, a White House correspondent for The Times, explains what the verdict could mean for the 2024 presidential race.
Welcome back.
We're getting breaking news into our newsroom this morning.
The jury in Delaware has reached a.
Verdict in the federal trial for President.
Joe Biden's son, Hunter Biden.
On count one, the verdict is guilty.
On count two, the verdict is guilty.
And on count three, the verdict is guilty.
It is the first time in history that the child of a sitting president has been convicted of federal charges.
From the New York Times, I'm Michael barbaro.
This is the daily today why a jury found Hunter Biden guilty on federal gun charges, what it will mean for his father and what it could do to the presidential race.
White House reporter Katie Rogers is our guest.
Its Wednesday, June 12.
Katie, I think we have to start by just recognizing the extraordinary and really improbable situation that were in as of today, which is that over the past two weeks, the former president of the United States was found guilty of a crime and the son of the current president of the United States was found guilty of a crime, all during a presidential race between those two presidents.
It's just kind of staggering.
It's remarkable.
I was in a hotel lobby next door to the courthouse yesterday after the jury went to deliberate and happened to glance over at CNN and saw former President Trump walking to attend a probation appointment.
And just the starkness of that really hit home where we're in this moment, where the former president has a probation officer and the president's son is on the precipice of being convicted of three felony gun charges.
Right.
And there was never any doubt that Trump's case was going to go to trial because he made very clear he was never going to accept a plea deal.