President Joe Biden announced Sunday he signed a pardon for his son Hunter, a sharp reversal from his previous position that he would not do so after the first son was convicted of tax and gun felonies this year.
The president said in a statement that he struggled with the decision but concluded over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that his son was “treated differently” during the Department of Justice‘s nearly six-year investigation and prosecution of his son.
Hunter Biden was set to be sentenced in less than two weeks for three gun felonies after he was convicted by a jury of unlawfully possessing a firearm while addicted to drugs. He also had a sentencing hearing scheduled later in December for nine tax charges after he pleaded guilty to failing to pay income taxes on millions of dollars worth of income.
Joe Biden revealed his surprise pardon decision, effectively erasing his son’s charges and preventing him from being sentenced, right before he was about to leave for a long-awaited trip to Africa.
“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,” Biden said.
“I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” he added.
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