Hunter Biden with his parents
“I hope Americans understand why a father and a president would come to this decision,” Biden said after granting a pardon to his son, convicted of three crimes.
This Sunday, US President Joe Biden granted a “total and unconditional” presidential pardon to his son, Hunter Bidenafter he was tried for three crimes involving possession of weapons and concealment of drug consumption to the authorities. According to Biden, the American court’s decision was motivated by politics.
“I believe in the justice system, but as I grappled with this issue, I also I believe raw politics infected this process and led to a miscarriage of justice — and since I made that decision this weekend, it didn’t make sense to delay it any further,” says one from the White House.
“No reasonable person analyzing the facts of the Hunter cases can come to any other conclusion than that Hunter was chosen just because he was my son — and that’s wrong,” Biden writes.
Biden also says he hopes “Americans understand why a father and a president would come to this decision.” Still, by pardoning his son, Biden is go against your own wordhighlights .
“I will not forgive him,” the president assured in June, after a jury found Hunter Biden guilty of three federal weapons charges. In September, Hunter had also pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges.
After that, more than once the president’s response remained unchanged, always guaranteeing that noHe would not pardon his son or commute the sentence.
Biden also assured that his son has been sober for five and a half years, and his son, in another statement, also stated that he admits and takes “responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction —mistakes that were exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport“.
According to , if he were not pardoned, Hunter Biden could face up to 25 years in prison. He was the first son of a sitting president to be convicted by American justice.
Trump also wants to pardon
Donald Trump reacted to the situation on the social network What an abuse of justice!”
Trump has already assured that he wants to pardon people convicted of carrying out the assault on the Capitol, on January 6, 2021which guaranteed that they are subject to “abuse and miscarriage of justice”.
According to , Trump was marked by several decisions made without regard to the Department of Justice. Some of them benefited close associates of the then US President, including pardons and commutations.
