President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, using the power of his office to wave aside years of legal troubles, including a federal conviction for illegally buying a gun, and Republican attacks that hounded the Biden family throughout the last four years.
In a statement issued by the White House, Mr. Biden said he had decided to issue the executive grant of clemency for his son “for those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024.”
He said he did so because the charges against his son were politically motivated and designed to hurt him politically.
“The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Mr. Biden said in the statement. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong.”
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