President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, going back on several public pledges to the contrary.
In a statement issued by the White House on Sunday, Biden acknowledged that he had said he would not interfere in the Justice Department’s case against his son, but he insisted that “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,” Biden said. “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.”
Newsweek reached out by email Sunday evening to the White House and the Trump transition team for comment.
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“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded,” Biden said.
“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,” he continued.
“I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” he concluded.
The pardon is full and unconditional, pertaining to offenses committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024, “including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss,” followed by the specific cases brought against Hunter in Delaware and California.
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