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President Joe Biden's son, Hunter, pleaded guilty Thursday to federal tax charges, a surprise move he said was meant to spare his family another painful and embarrassing criminal trial after his gun case conviction just months ago.
拜登总统的儿子亨特周四对联邦税务指控认罪，他说这一意外举动是为了避免他的家人在几个月前因枪支案被定罪后再次经历痛苦和尴尬的刑事审判。
Hunter Biden's decision to plead guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges without the benefits of a deal with prosecutors came hours after jury selection was supposed to begin in the case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes.
亨特·拜登决定在没有与检察官达成协议的情况下对轻罪和重罪指控认罪，而就在几个小时前，陪审团选拔本应开始，指控他未能缴纳至少 140 万美元的税款。
The president's son is facing potential prison time after his June conviction on felony gun charges in a trial that aired unflattering and salacious details about his struggles with a crack cocaine addiction. The tax trial was expected to showcase more potentially lurid evidence as well as details about Hunter Biden's foreign business dealings, which Republicans have seized on to try to paint the Biden family as corrupt.
总统的儿子在 6 月因重罪枪支指控被定罪后可能面临牢狱之灾，审判中曝光了他与可卡因成瘾斗争的丑陋和淫秽细节。预计税务审判将展示更多可能耸人听闻的证据以及有关亨特·拜登海外商业交易的细节，共和党人抓住了这些细节，试图将拜登家族描绘成腐败分子。
"I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment," Hunter Biden said in an emailed statement after he entered his plea. "For all I have put them through over the years, I can spare them this, and so I have decided to plead guilty."
“我不会让我的家人遭受更多的痛苦、更多的隐私侵犯和不必要的尴尬，”亨特·拜登在认罪后通过电子邮件发表声明说。 “这些年来，我让他们受了这么多苦，现在我可以让他们免于受这样的罪，所以我决定认罪。”
Although President Biden's decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential election muted the potential political implications of the tax case, the trial was expected to carry a heavy emotional toll for the president in the final months of his five-decade political career.
尽管拜登总统决定退出 2024 年总统大选，削弱了这起税务案件的潜在政治影响，但预计这场审判将给这位总统在他五十年政治生涯的最后几个月带来沉重的情感打击。
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