Hunter Biden said father would not have forgiven him Did President Trump win the 2024 election?
Former President Biden’s son spoke with Mediaite editor Tommy Christopher on Monday about the recent federal indictments against President Trump’s alleged political enemies.
“Well, look, I think, and I’ve said this before, my father would not have forgiven me if President Trump had not won,” Hunter Biden told Christopher, adding that his father forgave him because the younger Biden did not trust the normal appeals process under Trump’s presidency.
“…Donald Trump went and changed everything,” he added. “And it changed everything, and I don’t think I need to argue much about why it changed everything.”
The younger Biden said he recognizes his privilege and “how lucky I am.” But his father’s successor “is not even close to being finished with his revenge tour and his absolute obsession with my father,” he said.
Hunter Biden said, “I think he would have made me the easiest, easiest target to bully me and to influence not only me, but to influence my entire family, at least he’s not, it’s not that easy for him to do that.” “I am forgiven.”
President Biden pardoned his son in December 2024, a month after Trump won the presidential election.
Hunter Biden was found guilty in a federal case in 2018 on three felony charges of violating the law by purchasing and possessing a gun, and concealing drug use. He pleaded guilty to nine federal tax charges in September 2024, avoiding trial.
President Biden said in a statement at the time, “No reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases could reach any other conclusion than that Hunter was singled out simply because he is my son – and that’s wrong.”
Trump, who was president-elect at the time, called the pardon an “abuse and miscarriage of justice.”In a post on his platform Truth Social,
Some Democrats criticized the pardon,
Senator Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called it “unwise” and Senator Gary Peters (D-Mich.) called the pardon a mistake.
Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said the then-President’s decision “puts personal interest before duty and further undermines Americans’ confidence that the justice system is fair and equal for all.”
