Joe Biden will announce a presidential pardon for his troubled son Hunter on Sunday night, a senior White House official has said.
It goes against what Biden has said as recently is June, directly saying ‘I will not pardon him.’
For months, the nation wondered if the president would pardon his ne’er-do-well son over his convictions on federal gun and tax fraud charges.
The pardon will cover both the gun charges and Hunter’s guilty plea, according to NBC News.
Biden was scheduled to be sentenced in the Delaware gun case on December 13, and on December 16 in the California tax case.
Joe Biden will announce a presidential pardon for his troubled son Hunter on Sunday night, a senior White House official has said
For months, the nation wondered if the president would pardon his ne’er-do-well son over his convictions on federal gun and tax fraud charges
It goes against what Biden has said as recently is June, directly telling the press: ‘I will not pardon him’
Biden and even Donald Trump have been pestered on the issue, with Trump suggesting it wasn’t out of the question despite having railed against the First Son for years.
Abbe Lowell, a key member of 54-year-old Hunter’s legal team had begun making his client’s case to the press that he was a political prisoner.
‘This is a seven-year saga propelled by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to hurt his father,’ Lowell said.
Family pardons are not unheard of in presidential history. Before he left office in January 2001, Bill Clinton granted brother Roger a controversial presidential pardon for a 1985 cocaine-trafficking conviction.
Trump himself pardoned Charles Kushner, father of son-in-law and ex-advisor Jared, before leaving office in 2020. Kushner was just yesterday named the US ambassador to France.
Lowell has reiterated that the only reason Hunter is facing conviction is out of political gain for his father’s enemies.
“It is a wild and terrifying story that serves as a stark warning of what is to come as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to resume power and have stated their intention to use the government’s vast power to pursue their perceived enemies,” Lowell told the Washington Post.