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, has ignited a firestorm of criticism from legal and political experts, with some viewing it as a pointed rebuke of theSunday that he believed his son, who was convicted on three federal gun charges for lying on a firearms application and pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges earlier this year, was being unfairly targeted by his political rivals.
The conservative Article III Project’s senior counsel, Will Chamberlain, said Biden’s pardon and the accompanying criticism of the cases amounts to a “criticism of Garland.” “The convictions indicate that both juries and judges have agreed with our charges,” Garland told reporters in August when asked about Trump’s plans to pardon defendants from the riot. “Pardons are another matter, and I really don’t have anything to say about that.”
In Biden’s statement, he blamed Republicans in Congress for “instigating” an investigation into his son, claiming “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.” Georgetown law professor Jonathan Turley said Hunter Biden managed to escape from any consequences in part because he “flaunted his status as a protected person among the Washington elite. He is one of Washington’s untouchables.”
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