Biden Issues a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ of His Son Hunter Biden

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The pardon comes weeks before President Biden leaves office and transfers power to President-elect Donald J. Trump, who spent years attacking Hunter Biden over his legal and personal issues.

President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon of his son Hunter on Sunday night after repeatedly insisting he would not do so, using the power of his office to wave aside years of legal troubles, including a federal conviction for illegally buying a gun and for tax evasion.

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 made the decision because the charges against Hunter 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.” » | Michael D. Shear and Zolan Kanno-Youngs | Reporting from Washington | Sunday, December 1, 2024

Read Joe Biden’s Statement and His Grant of Clemency: President Biden issued the statement after signing a pardon for Hunter Biden Sunday night. »

Hunter Biden Faced Prison Time for Tax and Gun Charges: The president’s son had pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges and was convicted of three felony counts for lying on a federal firearms application. »

In Pardoning His Son, Biden Echoes Some of Trump’s Complaints: President Biden complained about selective prosecution and political pressure in a system he has spent his public life defending. »

The Secret Family Member of US President Joe Biden | 60 Minutes Australia

Jul 7, 2024 | Why isn’t President Joe Biden’s granddaughter, five-year-old Navy Roberts, welcome at the White House?

Hunter Biden Found Guilty in Gun Case

THE NEW YORK TIMES: President Biden’s son was convicted in Delaware federal court on all three felony counts tied to a handgun purchase in 2018. His sentencing date has not been set.

A jury in Wilmington, Del., on Tuesday found Hunter Biden, President Biden’s long-troubled son, guilty of three felony counts of lying on a federal firearms application in 2018, a grievous personal blow to the Biden family as his father enters the final months of a brutal re-election campaign. He could face up to 25 years in prison, but first-time offenders who did not use their weapons to commit a violent crime typically receive no jail time.

Mr. Biden, 54, stood with arms crossed, grimly surveying the jury as the verdict was read. It brought an end to an extraordinary trial that made painfully public Mr. Biden’s crack addiction, reckless behavior and ruinous spending — narrated by three former romantic partners, including the widow of his brother, Beau Biden. » | Glenn Thrush, Reporting from the courthouse | Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Why the MAGA Witchhunt of Hunter Biden Is a National Disgrace | The Warning

Steve Schmidt reacts to the impeachment inquiry into Hunter and Joe Biden, and why it is a national disgrace to treat a private citizen this way.

Hunter Biden Charged With Evading Taxes on Millions From Foreign Firms

THE NEW YORK TIMES: The Justice Department charged President Biden’s son after a long-running and wide-ranging investigation with substantial political repercussions.

Hunter Biden, the son of President Biden, had already been charged with three federal weapons felonies in September. | Kenny Holston/The New York Times
A federal grand jury charged Hunter Biden on Thursday with a scheme to evade federal taxes on millions in income from foreign businesses, the second indictment against him this year and a major new development in a case Republicans have made the cornerstone of a possible impeachment of President Biden.

Mr. Biden, the president’s son, faces three counts each of evasion of a tax assessment, failure to file and pay taxes, and filing a false or fraudulent tax return, according to the 56-page indictment — a withering play-by-play of personal indulgence with potentially enormous political costs for his father.

The charges, filed in California, came five months after he appeared to be on the verge of a plea deal that would have avoided jail time and potentially granted him broad immunity from future prosecution stemming from his business dealings. But the agreement collapsed, and in September, he was indicted in Delaware on three charges stemming from his illegal purchase of a handgun in 2018, a period when he used drugs heavily and was prohibited from owning a firearm.

The tax charges have always been the more serious element of the inquiry by the special counsel, David C. Weiss, who began investigating the president’s son five years ago as the Trump-appointed U.S. attorney for Delaware. Mr. Weiss was retained when President Biden took office in 2021. » | Glenn Thrush and Michael S. Schmidt | Reporting from Washington | Thursday, Dece,ber 7, 2023


Is every sod at the top corrupt? Isn't there even one honest broker amonst the SOBs? All American politicians invoke God. They can't get by without mentioning Gods name. The bloody hypocrites. For Christ's sake, leave God out of the equation and start behaving honestly and responsibly. The bloody lot of you are a disgrace. – © Mark Alexander

Hunter Biden Pleads Not Guilty to Federal Gun Charges - BBC News

Oct 3, 2023 | Hunter Biden, the son of US President Joe Biden, has entered a not guilty plea to charges of illegally owning a handgun at a Delaware courthouse.

Prosecutors allege that the 53-year-old lied about his drug use on application forms when he purchased the weapon in 2018.

Biden has acknowledged that he was a heavy user of crack cocaine at the time, but he denies breaking the law. He faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of the three federal counts.

Forget Hunter Biden, What about Jared and Ivanka’s Grift?

Jun 29, 2023 | If Republicans are truly worried about members of the first family improperly benefitting from their name, Mehdi says there are two people besides Hunter Biden that they should be looking at: Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

Tucker Carlson Tried to Use Hunter Biden to Get His Son into Georgetown

THE GUARDIAN: Emails reveal the ‘extent’ which Carlson was willing to turn on Biden’s son since the 2020 election, Washington Post says

Hunter Biden, the son of President Joe Biden, speaks to guests during the White House Easter Egg Roll on 18 April. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP
As Tucker Carlson asked Hunter Biden for help getting his son into an elite Washington university in 2014, the Fox News host’s wife, Susie, reportedly wrote in an email: “Tucker and I have the greatest respect and admiration for you. Always!”

Since the 2020 election, however, Carlson has fueled rightwing attacks on Joe Biden’s son, particularly over business affairs in which he allegedly benefited from his father’s position.

The existence of emails about getting Buckley Carlson into Georgetown has been known for some time, thanks to a laptop once owned by Hunter Biden that was obtained by Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and pushed to media in 2020.

On Thursday the Washington Post revealed new emails and said analysis by security experts confirmed their authenticity.

The emails, the Post said, “reveal the extent to which Carlson was willing to turn on a former associate as he thrives in a hyper-partisan media world in which conservatives have made Biden a prime target for attack.”

“They also show how Carlson once sought to benefit from the elite political circles in Washington that he now regularly rails against as the ‘ruling class’.” » | Martin Pengelly | Friday, May 20, 2022

'He's Taking the Side of Putin': Trump Asks for 'Invented Dirt' from Russia

Mar 30, 2022 • Former President Trump publicly called on Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to release any dirt he might have on Hunter Biden, the president’s son. The Morning Joe panel discusses.

James Risen: Whistleblower Complaint Shows “Trump Is a Habitual Criminal” Abusing His Office

Democrats are ramping up efforts to impeach President Trump for pressing the president of Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Nearly 90% of House Democrats now support impeachment. On Thursday, a declassified version of a complaint by an anonymous whistleblower was released, detailing his concerns about Trump’s July phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky. In the complaint, the unnamed whistleblower — who has been identified as a CIA official — accused the president of “using the power of his office to solicit interference from a foreign country in the 2020 U.S. election.” The complaint also revealed details about how the White House attempted to “lock down” all records of Trump’s phone conversation with Zelensky by moving a transcript of the call to a standalone computer system reserved for codeword-level intelligence information. The whistleblower wrote in his complaint, “According to White House officials I spoke with, this was 'not the first time' under this Administration that a Presidential transcript was placed into this codeword-level system solely for the purpose of protecting politically sensitive — rather than national security sensitive — information.” For more on the unfolding scandal, we speak with James Risen, senior national security correspondent for The Intercept.