President-elect Trump reacted to President Biden’s surprise decision to pardon his son Hunter on Sunday.
Biden’s move to pardon — a decision he said he would never make — has turned heads across the country. In a Truth Social post Sunday night, Trump suggested that Biden should have pardoned the January 6 protesters.
“Does the Amnesty that Joe gave to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have been imprisoned for years?” Trump wrote. “Torture and Miscarriage of Justice!”
Trump’s transition team also responded to Hunter Biden’s pardon.
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Trump responded to Hunter Biden’s pardon on Sunday night. (Reuters/Getty/AP Images)
“The failed witch hunt against President Trump has proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other powerful prosecutors are guilty of manipulating the justice system,” Trump’s incoming White House communications director Steven Cheung said in a statement to Fox News.
“That justice system must be fixed and due process must be restored to all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with the overwhelming authority of the American people.”
Earlier on Sunday, Biden accused Republicans of unfair treatment and said Hunter was “treated differently” by prosecutors. Hunter Biden was convicted of three gun charges in a Delaware case earlier this year, then pleaded guilty to multiple tax charges in September.
“From the day I came into office, I said that I will not interfere in the decision-making of the Department of Justice, I kept my word as I watched my son being prosecuted in a selective and inappropriate way,” reads the president’s statement.
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US President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden embrace on stage at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
“Without the more complicated things like criminal use, multiple buys, or buying a weapon as a straw buyer, people are almost never prosecuted for a crime because of how they fill out a gun form,” he continued. “Those who are late in paying their taxes due to addiction, but pay them back with interest and penalties, are often given non-criminal convictions.”
Biden also brought up Hunter’s fight against drug abuse and asked the American people to “understand why my father and the President would make this decision.”
“There was an attempt to break Hunter – who has not eaten for five and a half years, even in the face of constant attacks and special persecution,” the president continued. “In trying to break Hunter, they tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it’s going to stop here. Enough is enough.”
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Hunter Biden, son of United States President Biden attends a ceremony to celebrate the US Olympic and Paralympic 2024 teams on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington DC, United States on September 30, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Biden had previously refused to pardon his son after Hunter was convicted earlier this year.
“I’m not going to do anything,” Biden said after the sentencing. “I will continue the judge’s decision.”
Trump earlier told Fox News reporter Bill Melugin that, if elected, he “wouldn’t do anything that would be public” about Hunter Biden’s crimes, calling the first son’s legal woes “a sad situation.”
US President Biden (L) leaves Nantucket Bookworks with son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 29, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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“I’ll bet my father maybe he’ll forgive him,” remarked the Republican. “Let’s see what happens. But he’s a bad boy.”
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