US President Joe Biden and his family are preparing for legal trouble after the latest revelation about his son Hunter's shady foreign dealings, journalist Angie Wong has said.
Last week it emerged that Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent Gary Shapley blew the whistle on a WhatsApp exchange between Hunter Biden and Chinese businessman Henry Zhao in July 2017, in which Hunter demanded to know why their "orders" had not been carried out.
"I am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled," Hunter Biden wrote.
The message has contradicted the president's previous claims he had no knowledge of his son's dealings with foreign millionaires, including payments he received allegedly in return for political influence.
Just days earlier, Biden's son had avoided doing jail time for corruption and influence-peddling with a plea bargain for misdemeanor charges of tax evasion and illegal possession of a handgun.
Angie Wong, who also serves as the president of the Legacy PAC, told Sputnik that Biden and son were "lawyered-up" and ready for battle.
"They can't keep trying to disguise what's actually right there in front of everybody's faces. And now they have to address it," Wong said. "We're going to expect some major legal moves coming up, I would imagine in days."
"When Hunter Biden got a slap on the wrist last week for a gun charge and for tax fraud, that really just fueled the sentiment that was going on in Washington and certainly in American homes," she noted.
"It's not that we want to necessarily get them. It's just that it's just so unfair. I think it's prompted what's happening right now, which is the release of this text message," Wong stressed. "If you and I even lied to our government. That would be a felony. But when our government lies to us, well, that's just politics."
The journalist said Biden was "finally worried" that his son's dodgy dealings would come back to haunt his presidency, and "now needs to address it" because "these are real voter issues and this is an election season."
"Will this take Joe Biden off the ballot?" Wong pondered. "I'm not sure it will, but certainly it's another thing he has to address and he can't hide from this one."
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