President Joe Biden has sworn not to pardon his son Hunter Biden, who is facing a federal gun charges prosecution in Delaware.
The president responded with a single word when ABC asked if he had decided against using his clemency powers in the two federal cases against his son, one of which involved alleged tax evasion.
“Yes,” Joe Biden told the network, according to excerpts from the interview, which will air in full Thursday night.
Hunter Biden is on trial in Delaware on allegations that he lied on paperwork to obtain a firearm and illegally carried the weapon while addicted to narcotics. He has also been indicted in California on nine additional tax-related crimes, including tax evasion, and those procedures are set to begin in September.
World News Tonight reporter David Muir also asked Joe Biden if he would honor the decisions in Hunter Biden’s trials.
“Yes,” Joe Biden answered.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELHowever, Joe Biden used the chance to slam his 2024 Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, for not doing the same in his hush money prosecution. A New York jury convicted Trump last week of 34 charges of falsifying business documents to allegedly conceal an adulterous affair with porn star Stormy Daniels prior to the 2016 election. There is no underlying crime, and the charges’ statute of limitations ran out years ago.
“He’s trying to undermine it,” Joe Biden stated. “He got a fair trial. The jury spoke.”
Biden’s words reveal him to be the devious man that he is. The last thing anyone could say about the Stomry Daniels trial is that it was fair. The jury pool voted 82% for Biden. Judge Juan Merchan was literally working with the prosecution and the prosecution had no case. They convicted Trump on intending to cover up something that was not a crime. To this day, neither the judge nor DA Alvin Bbragg can tell you what the crime was.
Abroad, Joe Biden emphasized that his decision last week to allow Ukraine to deploy American-made weaponry in Russia did not authorize “strikes on Moscow, on the Kremlin.” There have been calls for Joe Biden to make the choice as Russia made progress in its battle with its neighbor.
“They’re authorized to be used in proximity to the border when they’re being used on the other side of the border to attack specific targets in Ukraine,” stated Vice President Biden. “We’re not authorizing strikes 200 miles into Russia.”
“I’ve known him for over 40 years,” he said of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “He’s concerned me for 40 years. He’s not a decent man. He’s a dictator, and he’s struggling to make sure he holds his country together while still keeping this assault going.”
Regarding the Gaza conflict, Joe Biden stated that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has a strained relationship, is “listening” to him as Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas resume cease-fire talks. Both Joe Biden and Netanyahu face domestic political pressure to terminate the war due to the humanitarian situation in Gaza, yet Netanyahu is also under fire from hard-line Republicans for destroying Hamas.
Biden, 81, may be the last American president born before D-Day to commemorate the military operation that brought World War II to an end. Following his journey to France, he will proceed to Italy for the 50th G7 summit.
“They saved the world,” Joe Biden said of the people who took part in the largest seaborne invasion in history. “We can never let anybody forget what they did and why they did it.”
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