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Pardon of Hunter Biden

The pardon of Hunter Biden was issued on December 1, 2024 by Hunter's father, Joe Biden, citing selective and unfair prosecution influenced by political motives. Biden emphasized that Hunter was targeted because of his familial relationship, despite similar cases typically not leading to felony charges or criminal resolutions. Biden's pardon was a full and unconditional pardon for offenses committed or potentially committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024. It covers all charges and prosecutions by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Delaware and California federal courts.

Hunter Biden was facing sentencing for two criminal cases. The pardon by President Biden has proven controversial, as the outgoing president had previously ruled out such action. This pardon, described as full and unconditional, covers any potential federal crimes Hunter may have committed from January 2014 to December 2024, continuing a tradition where presidents grant clemency to those close to them across the political spectrum.

Context of the Pardon

Hunter Biden was awaiting sentencing in two federal cases. In June, he was convicted in Delaware on three charges for lying about his drug use on a handgun purchase form, marking him as the first child of a sitting US president to be criminally convicted. He had also pleaded guilty in September to nine federal tax charges for the years 2016-2019, related to the failure to file and pay taxes, tax evasion, and filing a false return.

Biden stated:

"Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions."– President Joe Biden

— Biden

Implications of the Pardon

The pardon Biden issued is unusually broad ... Read more

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Hunter Biden

... On December 1, 2024, President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son. The pardon covered all federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, and included his tax charges, gun charges, and any other potential charges within that time.

In an official White House statement from President Biden, he said that he believed his son was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted", and blamed political pressure for the failure of a plea deal for Hunter. He concluded by saying "I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

The New York Times reported that the plea deal fell apart due to the presiding judge questioning its unusual construction, which violated a basic tenet of federal guilty pleas against having side deals in the plea agreement. In court filings subsequent to the pardon, special counsel Weiss stated "there was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case". Judge Scarsi stated that President Biden's characterizations "stand in tension with the case record" and that the Constitution does not "give the president the authority to rewrite history[.]"

The scope of the pardon was unusually broad and legal experts could recall only Richard Nixon as someone given similar terms for a pardon, for a term between 1969 and 1974. The breadth of the pardon includes Hunter Biden's "entire tenure on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma, as well as much of his other international work, including in China."

The pardon received bipartisan criticism from members of Congress as harming the justice system. In the months leading up to Hunter's scheduled sentencing, the President had made repeated statements that he would not use the pardon authority for his own son. He and his staff continued to state that there would be no pardon for Hunter as late as November, although internal staff discussions affirmed that the option for a pardon would remain on the table even as Biden publicly stated otherwise.

Hunter issued the following statement in response to the pardon:
I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction – mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport, I will never take the clemency I have been given today for granted and will devote the life I have rebuilt to helping ... Read more

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