Later on Sunday, MLAs responded with scathing remarks President Biden His son Hunter Biden, who was convicted in two separate federal cases earlier this year, pardoned him.
The pardon comes after Biden and his communications team continued to insist they would not pardon the president’s son.
Hunter pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in September, which spared him a public trial for failing to pay taxes while spending lavishly on drugs, escorts, luxury hotel stays, clothing and other personal items.
The first son pleaded guilty in June to three felony gun charges after he lied on a mandatory gun purchase form, saying he was not an illegal user or drug addict.
Biden apologizes to son Hunter Biden before leaving the Oval Office
President Biden and his son Hunter Biden embrace. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
After The hunter was convictedPresident Biden has indicated that he has no plans to pardon his son. That all changed on Sunday night.
Home Care Committee Speaker James Comer, R-Ky., quickly responded to Biden’s move to pardon his son, saying the president “lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence activities.”
“Not only did he falsely claim that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, he lied when he said he would not forgive Hunter Biden,” Comer said. “The charges against Hunter are just the tip of the iceberg of the corruption that President Biden and the Biden crime family lied to the American people about. It’s unfortunate that, rather than coming clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability.”
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Hunter Biden has previously accused his father of using his father’s political influence for his business interests. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Another federal lawmaker who weighed in on the issue Sunday was House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
“Democrats have said there’s nothing to our impeachment inquiry,” Jordan said. “If that’s the case, why did Joe Biden pardon Hunter Biden for the things we were inquiring about?”
Jordan was one of the main figures pushing to expose the Biden family’s business dealings, and Republicans have indicated that a corruption investigation could lead to impeachment against President Biden.
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In September 2023, Hunter sued former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, alleging that the former Trump lawyer violated his privacy rights by illegally disseminating content from a laptop dropped by his first son at a computer store in Delaware.
The complaint alleges that Giuliani was “primarily responsible” for the “total destruction” of Hunter’s digital privacy, while also naming former federal prosecutor Robert Costello, who previously represented the former New York City mayor, as a defendant.
“Biden, who never met his granddaughter Navy, did not forgive his son because he is a good father,” Giuliani wrote in X after learning of the pardon. “He did so because, as his son admitted on the hard drive, the hunter had given away half a million he had collected over 30 years. The head of a crime family– Joe Biden.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, responded to the pardon in X.
“I’m shocked that Pres. Biden has forgiven his son Hunter (because) he says so many times and I believe him,” Grassley wrote. “Shame on me.”
President-elect Trump was previously asked if he would forgive Biden’s son and said, “I bet the father probably will. We’ll see what happens.”
On Sunday, the president-elect took to Truth Social to share his reaction.
“Does Joe’s pardon for Hunter include the J-6 hostages who have been in prison for years now?” Trump asked. A miscarriage of justice!”
Trump’s transition team responded to the news in a statement to Fox News.
“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” said Steven Cheung, who served as Trump’s campaign communications director and was later appointed his director. Communications at the White House, said. “That justice system must be fixed and due process restored to all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do when he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people.”
IRS investigators Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler, who blew the whistle on political interference in Hunter’s tax crimes, released a statement after learning of the pardon.
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“No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple fact that the Justice Department has framed the president’s son for multiple crimes. We did our duty, told the truth and followed the law,” he said. “Anyone reading the president’s apology now should remember that Hunter Biden admitted to his tax crimes in federal court, that Hunter Biden’s attorneys targeted us for our legal whistleblower disclosures, and that we are suing one of those attorneys for perjury.
“President Biden has the power to put his thumb on the scales of justice for his son, but he should have done it with an apology clearly visible to the world, rather than secretly behind the scenes by his political appointees.” He continued. “It is a sad day for both law-abiding taxpayers to witness this privilege for the powerful.”
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment, but did not hear back.
