Hunter Biden steps into a vehicle as he leaves federal court, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles, after pleading guilty to federal tax charges. (AP Photo/Eric Thayer)
THE HILL | Published December 2, 2029
President Biden’s announcement that he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, rattled the political world late Sunday.
The president argued in a statement on Sunday that the charges brought against his son, which included three felony charges on his purchase and possession of a gun in 2018, came about due to political reasons.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” Biden said.
Reactions from both sides of the aisle poured in in the wake of the announcement, with Republicans expressing furor over the president’s pardon of his son.
President-elect Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform, called Biden’s pardon of his son “an abuse and miscarriage of justice” Sunday.
“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” the president-elect said, seemingly referring to rioters who have been accused of storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack.
Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), said in a statement posted to the social platform X on Sunday that the president “has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence peddling activities.”
“Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden,” Comer continued.
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
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WASHINGTON EXAMINER | Published December 1, 2029
President Joe Biden announced Sunday he signed a pardon for his son Hunter, a sharp reversal from his previous position that he would not do so after the first son was convicted of tax and gun felonies this year.
The president said in a statement that he struggled with the decision but concluded over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that his son was “treated differently” during the Department of Justice‘s nearly six-year investigation and prosecution of his son.
Hunter Biden was set to be sentenced in less than two weeks for three gun felonies after he was convicted by a jury of unlawfully possessing a firearm while addicted to drugs. He also had a second sentencing hearing scheduled later in December in a tax case, in which he had pleaded guilty to nine charges, including failing to pay income taxes on millions of dollars worth of income.
Joe Biden revealed his surprise pardon decision, effectively erasing his son’s charges and preventing him from being sentenced, less than two months before he exits the White House and right before he was about to leave for a long-awaited trip to Africa.
“Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,” Joe Biden said.
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SOURCE: www.washingtonexaminer.com
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