WASHINGTON (AP) – President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, sparing the younger Biden potential prison time on federal felony firearms and tax convictions and making the president’s decision to benefit his family. He rescinded his previous promise not to take advantage of his privilege. member.
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The Democratic president previously said he had no intention of pardoning or commuting his son’s sentence after he was convicted in two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden is scheduled to be punished following his trial conviction in a gun case and guilty plea to tax charges, and ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s expected return to the White House. It took place within two months.
This ends a years-long legal battle for the president’s son, who publicly revealed in December 2020, a month after Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, that he was under federal investigation. It is something.
In June, while his son Hunter was on trial in a Delaware gun case, Biden ruled out pardoning or clemency for his son in an interview with ABC News.
As recently as Nov. 8, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre denied any possibility of a pardon or pardon for the younger Biden, saying, “We’ve been asked that question many times. Our answer is… is no.”
