Watergate Prosecutor: Why Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son Hunter [View all]
I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,” the president wrote, after spending the Thanksgiving holiday with Hunter and his family, only a few weeks from the anniversary of the tragic deaths of the president’s first wife and daughter in a 1972 car accident.
It is also worth looking at the legal facts of the case against Hunter Biden. Illegal gun possession charges are typically brought only when the gun is used to commit a crime. Hunter possessed the gun for only 11 days, never loaded a single bullet into it and got rid of it without using it. I am not excusing his behavior. It was illegal to lie on the permit form and obtain the gun, but indicting him was unfair and selective prosecution. The president was right to call it politically motivated and a “miscarriage of justice.” That is why a pardon actually serves justice in this case.
Ahead of his second term, Trump has promised to pardon all of those convicted of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Even if Biden’s pardon of his son is politically questionable, it is nonsensical to argue that it somehow opens the door for future pardons by Trump. That door was already open.
Biden’s reversal of his pledge not to pardon his son is especially understandable after Trump’s election, since the president-elect would almost certainly have sought to further politicize the younger Biden’s conviction. Remember that it was Republican members of Congress who began investigating Biden’s son to bolster Trump and weaken Joe Biden before his expected run against Trump in 2020. The younger Biden was a pawn.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-12-02/president-biden-pardoned-hunter-it-was-the-right-thing-to-do
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