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Joe Biden has issued a “full and unconditional” pardon to his son Hunter Biden that covers his son’s gun charges and guilty plea, the US president explained in statement released by the White House on Sunday.
The decision marks a reversal for Biden, who has repeatedly said he would not use his executive power to pardon his son or commute his sentence.
The pardon comes ahead of Hunter Biden’s Dec. 12 sentencing on federal gun charges. Hunter Biden is also scheduled to be sentenced in a separate criminal case four days later after pleading guilty in September to federal tax evasion charges.
In the statement Joe Biden said he reneged on a pledge not to “interfere in the decision-making of the Department of Justice, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted.”
Hunter Biden was found guilty in Delaware in June on three felonies related to his 2018 gun purchase because he falsely wrote on his gun purchase form that he did not use illegal drugs.
Joe Biden said Sunday night that his son was being prosecuted “without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or purchasing a gun as a straw buyer, people almost never stand trial on criminal charges solely for how they are filled out a gun shape’.
“It’s clear that Hunter was treated differently,” Biden said, adding that the allegations in the case “came only after several of my political opponents in Congress incited them to attack me and oppose my election.”
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