Former first son Hunter Biden is claiming that his father only pardoned him because Donald Trump reclaimed the presidency in November 2024 \u2014 and ‘would not have’ done so under ‘normal circumstances’ while the appeals process played out.<\/p>\n
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‘Donald Trump went and changed everything,’ Hunter said in an interview released Monday on journalist Tommy Christopher\u2019s Substack platform.<\/p>\n
‘And I don\u2019t think that I need to make much of an argument about why it changed everything.’<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old \u2014 who pleaded guilty last year to evading $1.4 million in back taxes to the IRS and was convicted on felony gun charges \u2014 declined to mention that he had apparently been present for discussions on pardons during Joe Biden\u2019s final months in the White House.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘I\u2019ve said this before,’ Hunter went on.<\/p>\n
‘My dad would not have pardoned me if President Trump had not won, and the reason that he would not have pardoned me is because I was certain that in a normal circumstance of the appeals [I would have won].’<\/p>\n
The Biden scion added that Trump was planning a ‘revenge tour’ against his father, which would have made himself the ‘easiest target to just to intimidate and to not just impact me, but impact my entire family into, into silence in a way that at least he is not \u2014 it\u2019s not as easy for him to do [with] me being pardoned.’<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
‘I realize how privileged I am,’ Hunter went on.<\/p>\n
‘I realize how lucky I am; I realize that I got something that almost no one would have gotten.<\/p>\n
‘But I\u2019m incredibly grateful for it and I have to say that I don\u2019t think that it requires me to make much of a detailed argument for why it was the right thing to do, at least from my dad, from his perspective.’<\/p>\n
Ex-White House chief of staff Jeff Zients spilled last month that Hunter ‘was involved’ in clemency talks and even ‘attended a few meetings,’ a source with knowledge of the Biden official\u2019s testimony to the House Oversight Committee told The Post.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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