Special counsel says Hunter Biden's claim that charges against him are fueled by politics is "conspiratorial"

Special counsel David Weiss' office has rebuffed the claim from Hunter Biden's attorneys that the federal tax charges facing the president's son represent a "selective and vindictive," politically-motivated prosecution, according to a series of legal filings submitted Friday. 

Weiss' office slammed claims that the charges were fueled by politics and were pursued to appease Republicans, calling the assertion "conspiratorial" and "nothing more than a house of cards."

"Former President Trump is not the President of the United States," prosecutors argued in the court filings. "The defendant fails to explain how President Biden or the Attorney General, to whom the Special Counsel reports, or the Special Counsel himself, or his team of prosecutors, are acting at the direction of former President Trump or Congressional Republicans."