Asked about whether the president would consider it, Karine Jean-Pierre said she hadn’t spoken to him about it, adding that he has rejected pardoning his son.
“I haven’t spoken to the president about this since the verdict came out, and as we all know, the sentencing hasn’t even been scheduled yet,” White House press secretary“He was asked about a pardon, he was asked about the trial specifically and he answered it very clearly, very forthright. As we know, the sentencing hasn’t even been scheduled yet. I don’t have anything beyond what the president said,” she added.
Jean-Pierre stressed to reporters on Wednesday that though the president was “very clear” on his stance on the presidential pardon, she does not have “anything beyond that” on the commutation question. “Jill and I love our son, and we are so proud of the man he is today,” Biden wrote in a Tuesday statement after the verdict. “So many families who have had loved ones battle addiction understand the feeling of pride seeing someone you love come out the other side and be so strong and resilient in recovery.”
Hunter Biden faces up to 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for the three convicted charges. Legal experts, however, told The Daily Beast that he will likely receive a shorter sentence given he is a nonviolent, first-time offender. “If the special prosecutor asks for jail, his politics is showing,” Duncan Levin, a criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, told The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “This case does not merit any jail time.”
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