The son of former President Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, admitted that he is “completely biased” about the pardon his father granted him in 2024.
“I’m completely biased as it relates to what my dad did for me. I fully understand how uniquely situated I am in being privileged enough to have received a pardon from my father,” Biden said in an interview published by the outlet MediasTouch and reported by Fox News.
Discussing the pardons issued under the Trump administration, Biden said, “I don’t think people understand is that, in the first year, I think—I don’t know the exact number—I think my dad gave 80 or so pardons over a four-year period of time. I think that that’s about the number.”
“Donald Trump has given over 1,500 pardons in the first year alone. But I’m obviously—I’m not the one to be, I don’t think, fairly or unbiasedly talking about the presidential pardon vote,” he added.
Former President Biden said upon pardoning his son, “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son, and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter, who has been 5½ years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me, and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
President Trump called Hunter’s pardon a “miscarriage of justice.”
