On Sunday, President Joe Biden gave his son Hunter Biden a full and unqualified pardon. Hunter Biden had been facing criminal convictions in California and Delaware on gun and tax charges, which could have led to jail time.
The crimes Hunter Biden did or may have done before January 1, 2014, are covered by his father’s pardon.
In the past, Joe Biden said he wouldn’t get in the way of the Department of Justice making decisions. But in a statement released Sunday, he said that he had seen Hunter Biden “being selectively and unfairly prosecuted” and that politics had “infected the justice system and led to a miscarriage of justice.”
“Hunter was picked on just because he’s my son, which is wrong.” People have tried to break Hunter, who has been sober for five and a half years despite constant attacks and selective punishment. They have tried to break me as well as Hunter, and there’s no sign that it will end here. “Enough is enough.” Biden wrote something in a letter.
In a post on the social media site Truth SocialDJT 3.81%, President-elect Donald Trump called the pardon a “abuse and miscarriage of justice.”
Biden has now freed 26 people from prison while he is president. 144 people were released from prison during Trump’s presidency, including 74 in his last hours in office.
There are also Democrats who don’t like the pardon. “I’m upset that he put his family ahead of the country.” “This is a bad example that could be used by other Presidents, and it will hurt his reputation,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wrote on X.
