US law professor suggests Biden is genetically predisposed to commit crimes

A US law professor has bizarrely suggested that Joe Biden and his family may be genetically predisposed to commit crimes, pointing to a distant relative of the president as supposed evidence.

In an opinion article for The Hill, Jonathan Turley, an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School, said that the skirting of recent legal troubles by the Bidens was “something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection”.

The president faces a dwindling threat of impeachment, stemming from allegations of corruption and bribery levelled by Republicans. He was also recently found by a special counsel to have willfully retained classified material during his time in office.

Mr Biden has denied wrongdoing and is not facing any criminal charges. An ex-FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens has been jailed as he awaits trial.

In his article, Mr Turley said that the Biden family were considered a “wonder” in Washington, and that over the years had shown “a legendary skill at evading legal accountability”

Jonathan Turley said that recent legal troubles for the Bidens may be ‘something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection’

“Biden family members often marshal political allies and media to kill investigations or cut sweetheart deals… [and] swim in scandal with the ease and agility of a bottlenose dolphin,” he wrote.

“It turns out that it may be something of a family trait acquired through generations of natural selection.”

Mr Turley explores the case of the president’s great-great-grandfather Moses Robinette, a government contractor during the US Civil War, who was found guilty of attempted murder and sentenced to two years of hard labour.

Friends and