President Joe Biden Pardons Son Hunter Biden

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Michaela Zee President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who earlier this year was convicted of gun-related felony charges in Delaware and pleaded guilty to tax evasion in California. “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,” the president said in a statement issued Sunday night. “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.” The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden’s sentencing hearings for the gun and tax cases, which were slated for Dec.

12 and Dec. 16, respectively. President Biden had previously said he would not use his presidential powers to pardon his son or commute his sentence after his convictions. “I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter.

He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest most decent men I know,” Biden said in June after Hunter Biden’s federal gun trial. “I abide by the jury decision.

I will do that and I will not pardon him.” Hunter Biden’s legal travails became a media frenzy ever since he revealed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 — one month after his father’s presidential election win.