Judge In Trump’s J6 ‎Case Worked With Hunter Biden

The judge chosen to oversee the case in former President Donald Trump’s latest indictment previously worked with Hunter Biden at a high-powered Washington, D.C., law firm.

U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is infamous for sentencing January 6 defendants to more jail time than the prosecution requested, has been chosen to oversee Special Counsel Jack Smith’s 2020 election case against Trump.

Chutkan’s official bio states that she was appointed by the Obama administration to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. She also reportedly donated thousands of dollars to former President Barack Obama’s campaign.

Prior to being appointed by Obama, she worked at Boies, Schiller & Flexner from 2002 to 2014 — specializing in litigation and white-collar criminal defense.

In a February 2022 profile posted by the federal judiciary, Chutkan wrote: “For a lot of people, I seem to check a lot of boxes: immigrant, woman, Black, Asian. Your qualifications are always going to be subject to criticism and you have to develop a thick skin.”

During Chutkan’s tenure at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, Hunter Biden got a job at the firm. He worked there as a lobbyist from 2009 to 2014, overlapping Chutkan’s timeframe at the firm for five years. While they did not work in the same position, the notion that the two did not interact — especially in light of the fact that she was later appointed by the Obama administration, where Hunter’s father worked — seems far-fetched.

At the firm, Hunter lobbied primarily for colleges, hospitals, and tech firms, according to the Associated Press. He maintained his job even after his father became vice president in 2008, later leaving the firm in 2014 — the same year he took the position as a board member at Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, and one year after he co-founded Chinese state-backed investment fund BHR Partners alongside Devon Archer and Jonathan Li.

After Chutkan’s connection to Hunter Biden became public, critics expressed concern about her ability to remain impartial in the Trump case and argued that this was just the latest example of the Biden administration’s weaponization of the federal government.

“Political persecution!” political commentator Alex Bruesewitz tweeted.

“The judge in the Trump J6 case – an Obama appointee and donor – worked at the same law firm as Hunter Biden. This is the level of contempt they have for the Constitution, the rule of law – and YOU,” tweeted podcast host Monica Crowley.