Biden Issues “Unconditional Pardon” For Son Hunter

December 2, 2024 Democrats, Joe Biden

The New York Times reports:

President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday night after repeatedly insisting he would not do so, using the power of his office to wave aside years of legal troubles, including a federal conviction for illegally buying a gun and for tax evasion.

In a statement issued by the White House, Mr. Biden said he had decided to issue the executive grant of clemency for his son “for those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024.”

“The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Mr. Biden said in the statement. “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.”

The Washington Post reports:

Biden said he came to the decision over the weekend, which coincided with the family being together in Nantucket, Massachusetts, for Thanksgiving. Hunter Biden’s attorneys this weekend also mounted a vigorous public defense, releasing a 52-page paper on Saturday titled “The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden.”

“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,” Biden said in his statement, which was released shortly after news of his decision was first reported by NBC News. “… I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”

Biden is not the first president to pardon family members and others close to them as their term in office expires. President Bill Clinton on the day he left office pardoned his half brother Roger Clinton for cocaine distribution convictions from 1985. Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, in December 2020 shortly after losing his bid for reelection.

CNN reports:

Given the selection of Kash Patel to head the FBI and Trump’s second pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, there are reasonable grounds to expect that Hunter Biden may have been among those whom the president-elect’s loyalists were likely to target, given their vows to use their powers to go after his enemies.

And now that he’s acted to protect his son, Joe Biden may face calls to cast a much wider net with his pardon authority, perhaps to include prosecutors who worked on cases against Trump, including over his attempt to overturn the result of the 2020 election.

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