Joe Biden Pardons Son Hunter, Says He Was “Singled Out” In “Selective Prosecution”

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President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter, concluding that he was “singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.” In a statement, Biden said, “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 White House had previously said that Biden did not plan on pardoning the younger Biden, who faces sentencing on gun and tax charges.

In September, Hunter Biden plead guilty to nine federal tax charges, with sentencing scheduled for later this month. Prosecutors claim that he failed to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a period from 2016 to 2019, when they said that he instead “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle.” His attorney, though, said at the time, “Like millions of Americans, Hunter was late in filing and paying his taxes.

Unlike those millions of Americans, he was charged criminally for his failures that occurred during the depths of his addiction to drugs and alcohol.” Last summer, Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony counts related to the purchase of a gun in 2018, when he was still in the throes of addiction.