Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decisionmaking, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple ...

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2 weeks ago - Although President Joe Biden and his administration stated on multiple occasions that he would not pardon his son, on December 1, 2024, Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon for his son. The pardon covered all federal offenses committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024, ...

January 20, 2025 - Last month, Biden pardoned his son Hunter for tax and gun crimes, despite his previous pledges not to do so. Biden issued blanket pardons for his brother James and his wife, Sara; his sister, Valerie, and her husband, John Owens; and his brother ...

March 10, 2026 - With Trump about to be back in charge of the Justice Department and FBI—including an FBI potentially led by an outspoken loyalist who has endorsed Trump’s vow to trample his foes in retribution—there was a quiet fear that the President-elect would make hunting Hunter Biden’s misdeeds a priority—even if Hunter Biden was already serving out a prison sentence. Joe Biden’s signature on an extraordinarily broad pardon rendered those efforts pointless, as no federal charges can be summoned.

December 11, 2025 - Hunter Biden is convicted of possessing *** firearm while addicted to or using illegal drugs and has pleaded guilty to tax crimes related to money. He has since repaid in total. The charges against him carry *** maximum sentence of 42 two years ...

December 2, 2024 - Hunter Biden was pardoned for his conviction by a jury in Delaware and a guilty plea in California. Hunter Biden was also pardoned for federal crimes "he committed or may have committed" between Jan. 1, 2014 through Dec.

February 7, 2025 - Biden, for instance, pardoned his son Hunter without receiving a formal request to do so. Looking at the Justice Department data another way, Biden granted 29% of the clemency requests he received.

January 2, 2025 - The sweeping “full and unconditional” pardon for Hunter Biden is designed to protect him from prosecution for any federal crimes he may have committed in the last 10 years.

December 4, 2024 - Biden still has the power to commute the sentences of all 40 men on federal death row, effectively sparing their lives. That their fate remains in doubt casts his decision to pardon Hunter in an especially unflattering light.

May 1, 2025 - President Joe Biden pardons Hunter Biden, weeks before the younger Biden is to be sentenced on tax evasion and federal gun charges. The outgoing president, who previously said he would not pardon his son, says that "raw politics has infected ...

December 2, 2024 - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) released the following statement after President Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon after previously stating “I will not pardon him,” for crimes over a ten-year period committed by his son Hunter Biden who was charged and convicted ...

December 2, 2024 - Hunter Biden’s pardon looks a ... extraordinary legal breadth — insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have committed over the past decade....

December 3, 2024 - Hunter Biden and then-Vice President Joe Biden attend a World Food Program event on April 12, 2016, in Washington.getty · The “full and unconditional pardon” covers any alleged offenses by Hunter Biden since the start of 2014, including—but ...