Joe Biden, president of the United States until early 2025, signed in the last few hours a pardon in favor of his son Hunter Biden, who last June was found guilty of three offenses related to gun possession and hiding his drug addiction. The reason given by the US president was that his son’s judicial setbacks have been used by his political rivals.
Some explanations that Joe Biden has given through a statement: “No reasonable person who looks at the facts in Hunter’s cases can come to any other conclusion than that Hunter was singled out simply because he is my son.” From his point of view, the opposition tried to “break” his son, who was also “selectively and unfairly prosecuted.”
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“It was an attempt to break Hunter, who has been sober for five and a half years, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective persecution. In trying to break Hunter, they were also trying to break me,” the US president added in the statement.
However, in the past he insisted that he would not use this presidential pardon to resolve Hunter’s legal issues. Now, Biden has changed his mind to carry out this prerogative of pardon. “The charges in his case only arose after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated attacks against me and in opposition to my election,” the president stressed.
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Donald Trump, the future president of the United States and Joe Biden’s successor in the White House, commented on social media on this controversy comparing Hunter Biden’s crimes with those of those convicted of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot. “Does that pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the 6E (January 6) hostages, who have been in prison for years? What an abuse and failure of Justice!” the businessman wrote on the social network Truth Social.
On that day, a violent mob stormed the Capitol following Joe Biden’s 2020 election victory. More than 1,500 people have been charged over the events and Trump has already promised to pardon all the rioters.