{"id":132424,"date":"2024-12-02T08:56:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132424"},"modified":"2024-12-02T08:56:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T01:56:45","slug":"biden-pardons-his-son-hunter-despite-previous-pledges-not-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132424","title":{"rendered":"Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous pledges not to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a><\/span> pardoned his son, <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/hunter-biden\">Hunter<\/a><\/span>, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.<\/p>\n<p>It caps a long-running legal saga for the younger Biden, who publicly disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 \u2014 a month after his father\u2019s 2020 victory \u2014 and casts a pall over the elder Biden\u2019s legacy. Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump\u2019s first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/president-joe-biden-hunter-biden-18efb958a5365eebda5bb3da411c4326\">In June,<\/a><\/span> Biden categorically ruled out a pardon or commutation for his son, telling reporters as his son faced trial in the Delaware gun case, \u201cI abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As recently as Nov. 8, days after Trump\u2019s victory, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre ruled out a pardon or clemency for the younger Biden, saying, \u201cWe\u2019ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"What to know about Trump's second term: Staffing the administration: Here are the people Trump has picked for key positions so far. Plus, a look at recess appointments and how could Trump use them to fill his Cabinet.Follow all of our coverage as Donald Trump assembles his second administration.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>What to know about Trump\u2019s second term:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Follow all of our coverage as <\/i><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\"><i>Donald Trump<\/i><\/a><\/span><i> assembles his second administration.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The elder Biden has publicly stood by his only living son as Hunter descended into serious drug addiction and threw his family life into turmoil, before pulling himself out in recent years. His political rivals have long used Hunter Biden\u2019s myriad mistakes as a political cudgel against his father: in one hearing, lawmakers displayed half-naked photos of the drug addled president\u2019s son in a seedy hotel. <\/p>\n<p>And House Republicans sought to use the younger Biden\u2019s years of questionable overseas business ventures in a since-abandoned attempt to <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-impeachment-investigation-congress-testimony-republicans-3b5573341b260713c2a637df24edf5fc\">impeach<\/a><\/span> his father, who has long denied involvement in his son\u2019s dealings or benefiting from them in any way.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released Sunday evening, Biden said, \u201cI believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,\u201d Biden added. \u201cNo reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter\u2019s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision,\u201d Biden added, claiming he made the decision this weekend. The president had spent the Thanksgiving holiday in Nantucket, Massachusetts with Hunter and his family, and was set to depart later Sunday on what may be his last foreign trip as president before leaving office on Jan. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden was convicted in June in Delaware federal court of three felonies for purchasing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-trial-gun-charges-delaware-cc96568ac3428802557c85876c820dec\">a gun in 2018 when<\/a><\/span>, prosecutors said, he lied on a federal form by claiming he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.<\/p>\n<p>He was set to stand trial in September in the California case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. But he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges in a surprise move hours after jury selection was set to begin. <\/p>\n<p>David Weiss, the Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney in Delaware who negotiated the plea deal, was subsequently named a special counsel by Attorney General Merrick Garland to have more autonomy over the prosecution of the president\u2019s son.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden said he was pleading guilty in that case to spare his family more pain and embarrassment after the gun trial aired salacious details about his struggles with a crack cocaine addiction. <\/p>\n<p>The tax charges carry up to 17 years behind bars and the gun charges are punishable by up to 25 years in prison, though federal sentencing guidelines were expected to call for far less time and it was possible he would avoid prison time entirely. <\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced this month in the two federal cases, which the special counsel brought after a plea deal with prosecutors that likely would have spared him prison time fell apart under scrutiny by a judge. Under the original deal, Hunter was supposed to plead guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses and and would have avoided prosecution in the gun case as long as he stayed out of trouble for two years.<\/p>\n<p>But the plea hearing <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/hunter-biden-plea-deal-taxes-gun-drugs-690d38f1ffae4dfce2c171d21e7d3594\">quickly unraveled<\/a><\/span> last year when the judge raised concerns about unusual aspects of the deal. He was subsequently indicted in the two cases.<\/p>\n<p>The sweeping pardon covers not just those offenses, but also any other \u201coffenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s legal team this weekend released a 52-page white paper titled \u201cThe political prosecutions of Hunter Biden,\u201d describing the president\u2019s son as a \u201csurrogate to attack and injure his father, both as a candidate in 2020 and later as president.\u201d Hunter Biden\u2019s lawyers have long argued that prosecutors bowed to political pressure to indict the president\u2019s son amid heavy criticism by Trump and other Republicans of what they called the \u201csweetheart\u201d plea deal.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. James Comer, one of the Republican chairmen leading congressional investigations into Biden\u2019s family, blasted the president\u2019s decision to issue his son a pardon, saying that the evidence against Hunter was \u201cjust the tip of the iceberg.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability,\u201d Comer said on X, the website formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is hardly the first president to deploy his pardon powers to benefit those close to him.<\/p>\n<p>In his final weeks in office, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in law, Jared Kushner, as well as multiple allies convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s Russia investigation. Trump over the weekend announced plans to nominate the elder Kushner <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-france-ambassador-charles-kushner-pardon-c3835be92b1fbd1dffcd05707cba9f52\">to be the U.S. envoy to France<\/a><\/span> in his next administration.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Cheung, a spokesperson for Trump, who has pledged to dramatically overhaul and install loyalists across the Justice Department after he was prosecuted for his role in trying to subvert the 2020 presidential election, said in a statement, \u201cThat system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden said in an emailed statement that he will never take for granted the relief granted to him and vowed to devote the life he has rebuilt \u201cto helping those who are still sick and suffering.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction \u2013 mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport,\u201d the younger Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden\u2019s legal team filed Sunday night in both Los Angeles and Delaware asking the judges handling his gun and tax cases to immediately dismiss them, citing the pardon.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Weiss did not respond to messages seeking comment Sunday night.<\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press writer Josh Boak in Nantucket, Massachusetts contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-son-hunter-charges-pardon-pledge-24f3007c2d2f467fa48e21bbc7262525\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=132424\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}