Before leaving the White House, Joe Biden granted a presidential pardon to his son, Hunter, prosecuted for illegal possession of a firearm and tax evasion, reports CNN, Monday December 2. A decision that made Donald Trump jump.
It is a decision that does not fail to get people talking in the United States. As reported by CNN, Monday, December 2, US President Joe Biden decided to offer a presidential pardon to his son Hunter, thus sparing him a possible prison sentence for federal convictions linked to the illegal possession of firearms and to tax fraud. This act comes after the country's 46th president had publicly and repeatedly assured that he would not pardon his son, who in these cases risks between 17 and 25 years in prison.
His successor in the White House, Donald Trump, did not fail to react on his social network Truth. “Does Joe's pardon of Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? What abuse and what denial of justice“, castigated the future American president, referring to his supporters tried for having invaded the Capitol on January 6, 2021 to protest his electoral defeat against Joe Biden. Donald Trump promised to pardon them once back in power.
Joe Biden evokes a “judicial error” against his son
In a statement released on Sunday, December 1, Joe Biden said: “Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter“, claiming that the prosecution of his son was politically motivated and that it was a “miscarriage of justice“. “I said I would not interfere with the decision-making of the Department of Justice and I kept my word even when I saw my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted“, affirmed the American president.
As the BBC points out, this is not the first time that an American president has pardoned a member of his family. In 2001, Bill Clinton pardoned his younger half-brother for a cocaine-related offense committed in 1985.
published on December 2 at 3:21 p.m., Quentin Marchal, 6Medias
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