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Outgoing US president says his son was ‘selectively’ and ‘unfairly’ prosecuted as a result of his household title.
United States President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter forward of his sentencing on gun and tax convictions regardless of a earlier pledge to not use his presidential powers to grant him a reprieve.
Biden stated on Sunday that his son had been “singled out” and “selectively, and unfairly” prosecuted as a result of his household title.
“In attempting to interrupt Hunter, they’ve tried to interrupt me – and there’s no purpose to imagine it’ll cease right here. Sufficient is sufficient,” Biden stated in a press release launched by the White Home.
“For my complete profession I’ve adopted a easy precept: simply inform the American individuals the reality. They’ll be fair-minded. Right here’s the reality: I imagine within the justice system, however as I’ve wrestled with this, I additionally imagine uncooked politics has contaminated this course of and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and as soon as I made this resolution this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it additional.
“I hope Individuals will perceive why a father and a President would come to this resolution.”
Biden’s resolution comes weeks earlier than Hunter Biden was set to face sentencing for a string of felonies associated to mendacity about unlawful drug use throughout a gun buy and failing to pay at the least $1.4m in taxes.
In June, Biden had flatly dominated out the potential of granting his son a pardon or commuting his sentence.
“I stated I’ll abide by the jury resolution. I’ll try this and I can’t pardon him,” Biden had stated.
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Sourcing information and pictures from aljazeera.com
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