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Joe Biden, the outgoing president of the United States, has broken his earlier pledge to not pardon his son Hunter for the criminal charges he faces.
Prosecutors said that Hunter Biden lied on his form by saying he was not addicted to or using drugs unlawfully, leading to his conviction in June on three charges linked to purchasing a pistol in 2018.
In addition, he entered a guilty plea to allegations that he had failed to pay at least $1.4 million (£1.1 million) in taxes, stating that he had done so to protect his family from humiliation after the crack cocaine addiction was made public during the prior trial over the gun charges.
The maximum penalty for the firearms conviction was 25 years in jail, but the maximum penalty for the tax charges was 17 years.
Sentencing rules, however, would have probably called for much less time than that, and it’s perhaps conceivable.
That Hunter Biden would not have been imprisoned. However, his father has now forgiven him, even if he had earlier promised otherwise.
Since his party lost the election, Donald Trump and the Republicans will be returning to the White House for a second term to succeed Joe Biden.
Who said last month that he would not be running for a second term. Several times, including on November 8, when the election results made.
It apparent that Trump would soon be taking the White House once again, Biden’s staff denied that the president would pardon his son.
The White House press secretary said that day: “That question has been posed to us on many occasions. Our response, “no,” remains unchanged.
Since then, the US president has released a statement stating that he has changed his mind and pardoned his son “fully and unconditionally,” claiming that the prosecution was politically motivated and a “miscarriage of justice.”
“The charges in his cases only arose after a number of my congressional political rivals incited them to attack me and oppose my election,” he said.
“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.” “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”
Hunter Biden issued the following statement: “I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction – mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport.”
In one sense, the U-turn is surprising given Biden’s repeated denials that he would pardon his son, but in another.
It is not surprising given that the US legal system is set to be taken over by a man who has claimed that the “Biden Crime Family” is operating a “criminal enterprise.”
Following the issuance of the pardon, Donald Trump issued a statement calling the attempted uprising on January 6, 2021, “an abuse and miscarriage of justice” and mentioning those who were imprisoned at that time.
Trump stated: “Are the J-6 Hostages, who have been detained for years, included in Joe’s pardon of Hunter? What a travesty of justice and abuse!”
Trump pardoned a large number of people close to him who had been involved in criminal investigations during his government when he last left office.
The 82-year-old Biden will ultimately not be president again, and even though he still has the authority to do so, he has eliminated the chance that his son would be imprisoned. As a result, Joe Biden will not bear any political repercussions.