President Joe Biden is making a controversial resolution with lower than two months to go in his presidency … saying he is pardoned his son Hunter.
The forty sixth POTUS introduced the information simply minutes in the past … releasing an announcement saying he is stood by whereas watching his son being “being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.”
Biden goes on to say different individuals convicted of the identical crimes — mendacity on federal kinds and paying their taxes late due to dependancy — are usually given non-criminal resolutions … however, Hunter was handled otherwise.
JB says the costs in his instances solely happened after Republicans in Congress used them to assault him … and, mentions how a plea deal within the tax evasion case fell aside in 2023 — together with his Republican opponents taking credit score for placing political strain on the authorized system to get the deal to return aside.
Joe says he believes within the authorized system … however, he additionally believes it is being weaponized by politicians within the case in opposition to his son — and, he is not going to sit down by whereas Hunter goes to jail for it.
Value noting … this justification sounds just like feedback Donald Trump made after he was convicted on 34 counts of falsifying enterprise data again in Could — feedback Democrats slammed the president-elect for.
He ends his message by writing, “I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”
Hunter was convicted on three felony counts of mendacity on a federal firearms software again in June. All of the lies have been about his drug use … and, he was going through 25 years in jail for the conviction.
Three months later, Hunter agreed to plead responsible to 9 federal costs in September after allegedly failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes from 2016 to 2019.
President Biden promised months in the past he would not pardon his son Hunter … so, this transfer got here as a little bit of a shock to many who had been following this case.
In fact, a significant motive Joe is pardoing his son stems from his time as president coming to an finish … and, with no extra elections to run, this will’t harm him sooner or later polls.
Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced in each instances later this month.
