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Biden will issue a pardon of his son Hunter Biden

President Joe Biden has decided to issue a pardon for his son Hunter and is expected to announce it Sunday night, according to a senior White House official with direct knowledge of the decision.

The decision marks a reversal for the president, who has repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. The pardon comes ahead of Hunter Biden’s Dec. 12 sentencing for his conviction on federal gun charges. Hunter Biden also is set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on Dec. 16, after pleading guilty in September on federal tax evasion charges.

The pardon is expected to cover both Hunter Biden’s gun charges conviction and guilty plea.

The senior White House official said Biden decided over this weekend to grant his son a pardon and began to inform his senior aides on Sunday.

Using his pardon power to assure Hunter Biden does not spend time in jail comes as the 82-year-old president is near the end of his term in the White House and has no future election to face. In recent months Biden has said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence.

“I will not pardon him,” the president said of his son in June after a jury found him guilty on three federal gun charges.

President Biden has discussed issuing a pardon for his son with some of his closest aides since at least Hunter Biden’s conviction in June, two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter said. They said a decision was made at the time for the president to publicly say he would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters earlier this month that the president’s position has not changed.

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 @R3publicanBaboonRepublicanfrom California  commented…2mos2MO

Recall that the gun crimes against Hunter were only prosecuted because a brave judge threw out the completely bogus plea deal that Biden’s DOJ cooked up for Hunter after REFUSING to charge him for any of his bagman crimes on behalf of the Biden family’s foreign crime syndicate.

 @Idealistic1973Veteran from Massachusetts  commented…2mos2MO

Hunter Biden did not forget to file his taxes because he got high.

He created shell corporations to disguise the sources of income.

 @NomineeBrianTranshumanistfrom New York  agreed…2mos2MO

What this pardon does is tell more people that there actually WAS something about the money laundering allegations and that he wasn’t hired by Burisma for his professionalism.

 @5HN8G78Constitutionalismfrom Maine  commented…2mos2MO

Joe Biden is a corrupt liar, and he, his brother James, and his bagman son Hunter all deserve to be in prison for repeatedly selling this country out in exchange for cash, cars, and even diamonds from foreign crooks expecting official favors from the U.S. government in return.

 @EmmaDerGroße from Minnesota  disagreed…2mos2MO

Trump is more corrupt, he is going to pardon himself! And you are calling Biden corrupt for pardoning his own son. what is wrong with you damn yanks

 @PopulistSavannahVeteranfrom Maine  commented…2mos2MO

Biden should have encouraged his son to win the case based on merits — it’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL to strip someone of their Second Amendment RIGHTS to bear arms based on a felony.

Hate on hunter all you want, but this was actually a disservice to all citizens, just not in the way people think.

 @AmiableJusticefrom Virginia  commented…2mos2MO

Nepotism and corruption in plain sight. Wow.

 @EmmaDerGroße from Minnesota  commented…2mos2MO

Gerald Ford pardoned Nixon, and Trump is going to pardon himself and all of the Jan 6th rioters

 @B1ll0fRightsGregGreenfrom Pennsylvania  commented…2mos2MO

“I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”

With this logic, he should’ve pardoned Trump at the same time.

 @L1b3rtyChuckLibertarianfrom Pennsylvania  commented…2mos2MO

It was only a matter of time. Everyone knew this was coming. Biden’s time as POTUS is thankfully ending on Jan 20 and his destructiveness will finally be at an end!

 @BearAbigailRepublican from North Carolina  commented…2mos2MO

The double standard/double tier of justice still exists. Imagine if Trump pardoned a family member. People would lose their minds.

Guarantee no media outrage for hunter rn.

Inverse lawfare

 @EmmaDerGroße from Minnesota  commented…2mos2MO

he is going to pardon himself and the Jan 6th rioters

 @EmmaDerGroße from Minnesota  commented…2mos2MO

I can understand why Biden did this, for a Father's love for his son is so great and powerful, nothing can break it.

yes I can also understand why people could find it shady, but to that I ask you! Once Trump pardons himself and all Jan 6th rioters, will you call that corrupt, or would you call it fair?

and this isn't the first time where the POTUS did a corrupt pardon, like President Ford pardoned Nixon. and that Ford is the only president so far to take the position of president without elections

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