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The pardon granted Sunday by President Joe Biden to his son is exceptional, due to both its beneficiary and its historic scale, analyzes the American daily.
It's one thing for a president to pardon his son. It's another thing to do it that way. The presidential pardon granted Sunday by Joe Biden to his son Hunter Biden is exceptional, not only because of the identity of the beneficiary – the closest member of the family to have ever received a pardon – but also because of its magnitude, according to experts specializing in presidential pardons. Biden not only pardoned his son for his tax and gun convictions, but for everything “crime against the United States that he allegedly committed or participated in between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024.”
This represents a period of almost eleven years, during which any possible federal crimes committed by Hunter Biden – although no offenses other than those already tried are known at this time – will not be subject to prosecution. This period notably includes his appointment to the board of directors of the Ukrainian company Burisma in 2014 and extends until Sunday, well after the crimes for which he was charged.
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