Hunter Biden, the prodigal son who did enterprise in Ukraine and China utilizing his dad’s identify | EUROtoday

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The “unjust accusations”, the conspiracy of political opponents, the distorted use of justice and trials: the explanations with which Joe Biden granted pardon to his son Hunter carefully resemble the “witch hunt” evoked by Donald Trump to defend himself in trials even throughout the electoral marketing campaign.

Of course, the comparability would not maintain up if you happen to have a look at the accusations and convictions: these of Hunter Biden are crimes for which it’s troublesome to go to jail within the United States; In the trials, now canceled with a swipe of the ice after his election victory, Trump was accused of very critical crimes corresponding to having tried to overturn the defeat within the 2020 vote, or having incited his supporters who attacked Parliament in January 2021. Without overlook the prison conviction for false accounting – by no means occurred to a former president in US historical past – and people in civil court docket.

A “full and unconditional” grace

Yet even the aged President Biden, like Trump’s legal professionals, did all the things to assist and defend that “unlucky son” who was affected as a baby, collectively along with his first-born Beau, by the automotive accident during which his mom and youthful sister died. . A son destroyed by years of drug and alcohol abuse, reborn with detox, however gone by way of scandals that touched the White House.

The “full and unconditional” pardon granted by Joe Biden to his son Hunter issues all crimes that “he committed or may have committed” over an unusually lengthy interval, “from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2024”.

2014 is the 12 months during which Hunter joined the board of administrators of the Ukrainian power firm Burisma, with a wage of fifty thousand {dollars} a month, whereas his father was within the White House, as Barack Obama’s vp, with accountability for Ukraine .