The American president, Joe Biden, announced this Sunday that he has signed a pardon in favor of his son Hunter Biden, who in June was found guilty of three crimes related to possession of weapons, for hiding his addiction to drugs in the purchase, considering 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, in which he ensures that his son was “selectively and unfairly charged.”
President Biden had reiterated on several occasions that he would not use the presidential pardon prerogative 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 convicted of having lied on a form to obtain a gun in the state of Delaware by claiming that he was not a drug user and having possessed that gun for only 11 days and without it being used in a crime, something that the The president said today that “he 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 Hunter, who 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 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 public 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 the president’s first-born son from cancer.
This 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 1972, in which Beau and Hunter Biden were injured. .
The pardon comes at a time without political risk for the president, who after renouncing his re-election this summer and at 82 years of age will leave political life on January 20, when President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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