2 days Ago By Reagan Reese
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday after months of claiming he would not do so. After a Delaware jury convicted Hunter Biden in June on counts that he knowingly possessed the gun while suffering a drug addiction and made false statements on the purchase document, the president said that he would not commute his son’s sentence. Biden issued a statement announcing the pardon, writing that his son was singled out in the judicial process because of their relationship.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter — who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.
Enough is enough,” the president wrote. “For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded.
Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice — and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” the statement continued. After months of claiming he would not do so, President Biden pardons his son Hunter.
@DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/uZ1dBCmj3t — Reagan Reese (@reaganreese_) December 2, 2024 Special counsel David Weiss brought charges against Hunter Biden in September 2023, alleging that the president’s son knowingly possessed the Colt Cobra while addicted to drugs and made false statements about his drug use on the purchase form.
Hunter Biden initially planned to plead guilty to the two misdemeanor tax charges and enter a diversion agreement for the felony gun charge in exchange for no jail time, however, the agreement fell apart in July after District Court Judge Maryellen Noreika expressed concern regarding an immunity provision included in the diversion agreement. Since Hunter has been charged, the president and his staff have been clear that the 82-year-old had no plans to pardon his son. “I’m extremely proud of my son, Hunter.
He has overcome an addiction. He’s one of the brightest, most decent men I know,” Biden said in June. “And I am satisfied that I’m not going to do anything.
I said — I said I’d abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.” In November, White House press secretary insisted that the president would not be pardoning his son before leaving office.
“We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands which is ‘no,’” Jean-Pierre said. Explaining his decision to pardon his son, Biden wrote in his statement that the charges brought against Hunter were used by his “political opponents.
” “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” he wrote. “Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases,” Biden’s statement continues.
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