Joe Biden responds to report Hunter Biden could be charged with gun and tax crimes: ‘He’s on the straight and narrow.’

Democratic President Joe Biden responded to a report that federal agents believed they had collected enough evidence to charge his son Hunter Biden with gun and tax crimes.

Biden was asked by CNN’s Jake Tapper about the report on his show Tuesday.

“Our reporting, CNN’s reporting and the Washington Post reporting suggests that prosecutors think they could, they have enough to, charge your son Hunter for tax crimes and a false statement about a gun purchase. Personally and politically, how do you react to that?” Tapper asked the president.

“Well, first of all, I’m proud of my son,” responded Biden.

“This is a kid who got – not a kid, he’s a grown man – he got hooked on, like many families have had happen, hooked on drugs. He’s overcome that. He’s established a new life,” he added.

“I’m confident that he is – what he says and does are consistent with what happens. And for example, he wrote a book about his problems and was straightforward about it. I’m proud of him,” Biden continued.

“He came along and said, by the way, this thing about a gun – I didn’t know anything about it. But turns out that when he made application to purchase a gun, what happened was he – I guess you get asked – I don’t guess, you get asked a question, ‘are you on drugs, or do use drugs?’ He said no. And he wrote about saying no in his book,” he added.