President Biden pardons his son Hunter, considering him a victim of political attacks

US President Joe Biden has announced that he signed a pardon for his son Hunter Biden, who In June he was found guilty of three crimes related to weapons possessionby hiding his addiction to drugs during 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 than “Hunter was targeted only because he is my son and that is wrong,” Biden said. in a statement, in which he assures that his son was “selectively and unfairly charged.”

President Biden He 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.

He hid his drug addiction by buying weapons

Hunter Biden had been convicted of lying 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 choice,” said President Biden.

“It was an attempt to break Hunter, who has been sober for five and a half years, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective persecution. By trying to break Hunter they were also trying to break me,” lamented the US president.

Trump asks the same treatment for those convicted of the assault on the Capitol

President-elect Donald Trump, for his part, has reacted and has taken advantage of the announcement of the pardon to ask on the Truth social network for the same treatment of those convicted of the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021when 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 6E (January 6) hostages, who have been in prison for years? What an abuse and failure of Justice!”exclaimed Trump, who promised to forgive those who stormed the Capitol in defense of an electoral victory that he did not obtain. More than 1,500 people have been charged for those events.

Hunter Biden’s legal problems

The most serious case for Hunter Biden was that of the nine charges to which he pleaded guilty in September for tax evasionsince 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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