Hunter Biden leaves the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building with his wife, Melissa Cohen Biden, after jury selection in his federal gun trial in Wilmington, Delaware on Monday June 3, 2024. © Jasper Colt / USA TODAY NETWORK
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(Washington, D.C.) — President Joe Biden signed off on paperwork Sunday night to pardon his son Hunter, even after promising over and over again that he never would. The White House released a statement late Sunday, in which the president said that no reasonable person looking at the facts in Hunter’s cases, would reach a conclusion that Hunter wasn’t “singled out because he is the President’s son,” The pardon comes just weeks before Hunter was set to hear his punishment in his gun and tax evasion cases. Insiders say Biden made his decision to pardon his 54-year-old son during the long Thanksgiving weekend.
Republicans were quick to bash the President over the pardon and his failed promise to let the court system decide Hunter’s fate. Some Democrats are upset with the President too. Colorado Governor Jared Polis says he understands why a father might decide to pardon his son, but he worries about how future presidents might abuse the power of the pardon.
