Four days after a New York jury handed down a historic guilty verdict against former President Donald Trump, history will be made again in a Delaware courtroom Monday when Hunter Biden becomes the first child of a sitting president to go on trial in a criminal case.

With President Joe Biden up for reelection, the Trump campaign and allies of the presumptive Republican nominee are likely to seize upon the trial to try to damage the president, political experts say.

Hunter Biden is accused of lying about his drug use when he filled out a form in October 2018 while purchasing a gun. He is charged with two counts of making false statements and one count of illegal gun possession. Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted on all three charges. 

He is also set to go on trial in California in September on tax evasion charges. The president’s son has pleaded not guilty to the charges in both cases.

Federal prosecutors in the gun case have said they may present evidence, including photos and texts chroniciling his drug addiction at the time, collected from Hunter Biden’s phone, iCloud account and laptop that he allegedly left at a repair shop.

Bob Clegg, a Republican political strategist, believes the trial will soften the political blow of Trump’s guilty verdict on 34 counts of falsifying business records to hide hush money payments to a porn star during the 2016 election.

“Any time his [Hunter Biden’s] name comes up in the news in any way, shape or form, it just muddies the waters on all of this ‘Donald Trump's bad, he's illegal, he commits crimes,’ etc., etc.,” Clegg told Spectrum News.

Clegg said he does not see a downside in the Hunter Biden trials for the Trump campaign. 

Because Joe Biden is a politician, voters won’t cut him any slack if Hunter Biden is convicted, Clegg said.

“It’s like guilty by association,” he added. 

And if Hunter Biden is acquitted, Republicans could renew allegations of a two-tiered justice system tilted against conservatives. 

“I almost think, in a weird sort of way, it would be worth politically for them to have this trial and have Hunter just get away scot-free,” Clegg said.

While Hunter Biden is a private citizen, his presence has loomed large over his father’s political career in recent years. 

Republicans have complained that stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop, which included salacious photos and emails about his business affairs, were suppressed by social media platforms and the news media before the 2020 election. 

And the GOP-led House has launched an impeachment inquiry into the president that has unsuccessfully sought to prove Joe Biden profited from his son’s or his brother James’ foreign business deals or that their professional interests influenced Joe Biden’s actions in office. 

Anthony Russo, a political analyst for Fox News Radio and host of the podcast “The Truth Will Set You Free,” said Hunter Biden’s trials will provide Republicans with a fresh opportunity to put his laptop back in the spotlight.

“They're going to make sure they talk about what was on the laptop as much as they could get out with the judge allowing,” Russo predicted.

He said it’s also a chance for Republicans to remind voters “about the election interference regarding not allowing the Hunter Biden laptop to be discussed in 2020.” Russo said he believes there is a “middle ground” of voters who could be swayed by the argument.

But Trish Crouse, a political science professor at the University of New Haven, said she doesn't think Hunter Biden’s trials will have much of an impact on the election.

“I think people have been able to sort of separate Joe Biden from Hunter Biden,” she said. “I think that whatever happens with Hunter Biden, people are going to hold Hunter Biden responsible and not Joe Biden.”

Crouse also said the Trump campaign should be “very, very careful” about its attacks on Hunter Biden’s private life.

“If you're going to open a fat can of worms with Hunter Biden, then the Biden campaign is going to fire back with what happened with Trump,” she said. “You're talking about salacious details. You're talking about a porn star and hush money and all of this lying and deceit that went on, the fact that Trump cheated on his wife and all of these things.”

Victoria Nourse, a law professor at Georgetown University, said she expects Republicans to use the Hunter Biden case to counter the Trump verdict. 

“In my view, it's a false equivalency. The president's son is not a public figure and does not command the most powerful nation in the United States, as former President Trump did,” Nourse said, noting that other presidents, including Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, also had immediate relatives get into legal trouble.

The Trump and Biden campaigns did not respond to emails seeking comment for this story.

Spectrum News’ Ashley Gallagher contributed to this report.