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President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter over convictions on gun and tax charges in an extraordinary reversal of his promise not to use executive powers to benefit his son just months before the end of his presidency.
In a statement yesterday night, the US president accused political opponents in Congress of “instigating” the charges against Hunter to attack him.
“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,” Biden said.
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden added.
The incumbent president’s controversial action has already drawn ire.
Steven Cheung, Donald Trump’s communications director, suggested that Biden’s move supported Trump’s claims of a politically motivated justice system.
Joe Biden has issued multiple statements supporting his son, but he has also said he would not pardon him.
But his reversal comes ahead of sentencing for both cases, which was scheduled for this month.
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