The US President-elect Donald Trump marked the decision of the outgoing President Joe Biden, which pardoned his son Hunter, for abuse and miscarriage of justice.
“Does Joe’s pardon for Hunter include the J-6 hostages (of the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol by Trump sympathizers) who have been imprisoned for years?” Trump asked in a status on the social network Truth, adding that he called Biden’s decision a miscarriage of justice. TASR informs about it based on a report from the Independent newspaper.
Several Republican congressmen also expressed indignation at Biden’s decision. House of Representatives member James Comer said on the X social network that President Biden “lied from beginning to end about his family’s corrupt activities.”
“Not only did he falsely claim that he had never met his son’s foreign business partners and that his son had done nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he wouldn’t pardon Hunter Biden,” Comer declared.
The Legislative Committee of the House of Representatives also drew attention to this aspect, recalling the statements of President Biden and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. that Hunter Biden will not be pardoned. “You have been lied to time and time again,” the committee said in a statement.
Senator Charles Grassley wrote on the X social network: “I’m shocked that President Biden pardoned his son Hunter because he said many times he wouldn’t do it and I believed him.”
However, not all congressmen for the Democratic Party supported Biden’s decision. Colorado Governor Jared Polis said he understood Biden as a father, but was “disappointed that he put his family above the interests of the country.” “This is a bad precedent that can be abused by future presidents,” varoval Polis.
A member of the House of Representatives, Democrat Greg Stanton, also believes that Biden Sr. “was wrong on this issue.” “It was not a politically motivated prosecution,” wrote Stanton on the X social network, adding that Hunter Biden committed serious crimes and was found guilty by a jury.
Biden announced the pardon for his son Hunter on Monday night. In his statement, he expressed the hope that Americans will understand why he made this decision as a father and president.
The president’s son, Hunter Biden, was found guilty of unlawful possession of a firearm in June. According to the indictment, he lied that he was not using drugs when he bought a gun in 2018.
In September, he admitted that in 2016-19, he failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes. According to prosecutors, he instead spent the money on his luxurious life, escort services and drugs. By confessing, he avoided a public trial that would likely have involved unflattering details of his personal life and would have been embarrassing not only for himself but also for his family.
The American president pardoned the son despite the fact that his office still claimed on November 8 that he would not do so, AP writes. He thus put an end to his son’s long legal disputes, which stretched practically throughout his term of office. Hunter Biden publicly admitted to an investigation by federal authorities in December 2020 – only a month after his father won the presidential election.
Several commentators speculate that many of the people who were arrested for their role in the 2021 Capitol riots Trump will grant the pardon as soon as he returns to office in January.
In connection with the incident during which Almost four years ago, Trump whipped the passions of a group of his supporters, more than 1,500 people were accused, added the Independent.
