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President Joe Biden ’s decision to pardon his son has undermined an argument Democrats often made over the past two years.
At a House Judiciary Committee hearing in June, Rep. Veronica Escobar noted that both Trump and Hunter Biden had recently stood trial and that Trump insisted his trial was rigged while President Biden said he would“How President Biden and Democrats reacted to a guilty verdict in a case against the president’s son was remarkably different from what we saw in terms of the reaction by former president Trump, his family, his allies and acolytes,” Escobar said.
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said Sunday.The younger Biden faced prison time for having illegally owned a gun while he was addicted to drugs in 2018 and for failing to pay his taxes on time.
“The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Joe Biden wrote in his statement about the pardon. “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
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