Joe Biden, still president of the United Statesnidos, announced this past Sunday that he has signed a pardon in favor of his son Hunter Biden, who last June was found guilty of three weapons charges by a jury. Hunter Biden was convicted of hiding his drug addiction by purchasing three firearms.
Biden pardons his son on the grounds that his judicial problems were instigated by his political rivals. “No reasonable person looking at the facts in the Hunter cases can come to any other conclusion that Hunter was targeted just because he is my son and that is wrong,” Biden said in a statement, adding that his son was “selectively and unfairly charged.”
The president Biden had reiterated on several occasions that he would not use the prerogative of presidential pardon to resolve the legal problems of his only living son, who had also pleaded guilty to tax evasion in federal court in California.
Hunter Biden had been found guilty of having lied on a form to obtain a gun in the state of Delaware by ensuring that he was not a drug user and having possessed that weapon for only 11 days and without it being used in a crime, something that the president said today “is almost never brought to trial with criminal charges.”
“The charges in his case only arose after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated attacks against me and in opposition to my election,” President Biden said.
“It has been an attempt to break Hunterwho has been sober for five and a half years, even in the face of relentless attacks and targeted persecution. By trying to break Hunter they were also trying to break me,” lamented the US president.
The elected president Donald Trump, For his part, he reacted and took advantage of the announcement of the pardon to ask on the social network Truth for the same treatment of those convicted of the assault on the Capitol on January 6 2021, when a violent pro-Republican crowd stormed that building to prevent lawmakers from certifying the electoral votes of Joe Biden, winner of the 2020 elections.
“Does that pardon granted by Joe to Hunter include the hostages of 6E (January 6), who have been in prison for years? What an abuse and failure of Justice!” exclaimed Trump, who promised to forgive those who attacked the Capitol in defense of an electoral victory that he did not obtain. More than 1,500 people have been charged for those events.
The most serious case for Hunter Biden was the nine charges to which he pleaded guilty in September for tax evasion, since having a criminal record for his weapons possession case in Delaware could face up to 17 years in prison.
Hunter Biden’s legal problems brought to the public’s attention a dark period in the life of the president’s son due to his deep addiction to drugs, especially after the death in 2015 of his brother and firstborn of the president due to cancer.
That tragedy also deeply affected Joe Biden, who had already gone through another difficult episode after the death of his first wife and his one-year-old daughter in a traffic accident in 1972in which Beau and Hunter Biden were injured.
Forgiveness comes in a moment without political risk for the presidentwho after renouncing his re-election this summer and at the age of 82 will leave political life on January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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