Jill Biden: ‘Of Course I Support The Pardon Of My Son’ | EUROtoday

“Of course I support the pardon of my son,” Dr. Biden mentioned in response to shouted questions from reporters at a White House vacation get together.

Hunter was convicted earlier this 12 months for mendacity on a federal kind when he bought a gun in 2018 and mentioned he wasn’t a drug consumer. He additionally pleaded responsible to failing to pay federal revenue taxes.

President Biden mentioned Sunday that Hunter had been unfairly focused by Biden’s political opponents.

“People are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form,” he mentioned. “Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions.”

“It is clear that Hunter was treated differently,” the president mentioned.

Donald Trump, Biden’s predecessor (and successor) in workplace, pardoned battle criminals, associates who obstructed justice, regulation enforcement officers accused of violence in opposition to folks of colour, and Charles Kushner, who pleaded responsible years in the past to costs of tax evasion and witness tampering, and who’s the daddy of Trump’s son-in-law Jared.

The president-elect has since tapped the elder Kushner to be his ambassador to France.