Washington — President Biden nonetheless has no plans to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, within the closing months of his presidency, the White Home press secretary reiterated on Thursday.
“We have been requested that query a number of occasions and our reply stands — which isn’t any,” White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mentioned at Thursday’s press briefing.
The president mentioned in June that he wouldn’t pardon or commute a possible jail sentence for his son, who was convicted of three separate felony prices associated to his buy of a revolver in 2018 when, in response to prosecutors, he was battling an dependancy to unlawful medication and lied about it on paperwork to acquire the gun.
In September, Hunter Biden additionally supplied a shock responsible plea in his tax evasion case. He was charged with three felony tax offenses and 6 misdemeanor offenses, together with failure to file and pay his taxes, tax evasion and submitting a false return.
After the September plea, Jean-Pierre additionally mentioned a pardon and commutation have been off the desk.
Hunter Biden is about to be sentenced in each circumstances in December, weeks earlier than his father leaves workplace.
