AP/WASHINGTON PresidentJoe Biden has reversed his previous pledges not to utilize the exceptional powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members by pardoning his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden from a potential prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax offenses.
Prior to his convictions in the Delaware and California cases, the Democratic president had declared that he would neither commute his son’s sentence nor pardon him. The action was taken less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to arrive to the White House, and weeks before Hunter Biden was scheduled to be punished for his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax crimes.
It brings to a close a protracted legal battle for the president’s son, who revealed in public that he was being investigated by the federal government in December 2020, one month after Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
In an interview with ABC News in June, Biden denied his son Hunter a pardon or clemency while his son was on trial in the gun case in Delaware.
As recently as November 8, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times,” ruling out a pardon or mercy for the younger Biden. Our response remains unchanged: no.
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