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After months of saying he wouldn’t, President Joe Biden finally granted his son Hunter Biden’s pardon on Sunday.
The president said he would not reduce his son’s sentence after a Delaware jury found Hunter Biden guilty in June of knowing he had the pistol while addicted to drugs and making false claims on the purchase paperwork.
In a statement announcing the pardon, Biden claimed that his son had been singled out throughout the legal proceedings due to their connection.
“It is incorrect for any reasonable person to conclude that Hunter was picked out based only on the fact that he is my son after considering the circumstances of his cases.
Despite relentless assaults and selective prosecution, Hunter has been clean for five and a half years. Attempts have been made to break him.
They have attempted to break me in an attempt to break Hunter, and there is no reason to think that this will be the end of it. There must be more. The president wrote.
“I have always operated on the straightforward tenet of telling the American people the truth. They will be impartial.
The fact is that, while I have faith in the legal system, I have also struggled with the idea that raw politics have corrupted this process and caused a miscarriage of justice.
I decided this weekend that there was no use in further postponing it. The message went on, “I hope Americans will understand why a president and a father would make this decision.”
In September 2023, special counsel David Weiss filed charges against Hunter Biden, claiming that the president’s son made false claims about his drug usage on the purchase form and willfully owned the Colt Cobra while under the influence of narcotics.
Hunter Biden had originally intended to enter a diversion agreement for the felony gun charge in exchange for no jail time and enter a guilty plea to the two misdemeanor tax charges.
However, the agreement fell apart in July after District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika voiced concerns about an immunity clause in the diversion agreement.
The president and his administration have made it plain that Hunter, 82, had no intention of pardoning his son since he was accused.
“I’m quite proud of Hunter, my son. He is no longer addicted. In June, Biden said, “He’s one of the smartest, most decent men I know.”
And I’m content that I won’t take any action. I indicated that I would follow the jury’s verdict. I’ll do it, and I won’t forgive him.
Before she left office in November, the White House press secretary adamantly said that the president would not be pardoning his son.
“That question has been posed to us many times. “No, that’s our answer,” Jean-Pierre said.
In his statement, Biden explained his decision to pardon his son, claiming that his “political opponents” were responsible for the allegations against Hunter.
He added, “The charges in his cases only arose after a number of my congressional political rivals incited them to attack me and oppose my election.”
“After that, a well-worked plea agreement that had been approved by the Department of Justice fell apart in court, with some of my congressional rivals claiming responsibility for applying political pressure to the proceedings.
Hunter’s charges would have been fairly and rationally resolved if the plea agreement had been upheld, Biden adds in his statement.
Biden was seen this weekend on Nantucket with his kids, Ashley and Hunter Biden, ahead of the pardon.