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statements-releases/2024-12/2024-12-01-statement-from-president-joe-biden-11.md

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+---
+date: '2024-12-01'
+modified_time: 2024-12-01 19:21:10-05:00
+published_time: 2024-12-01 19:30:00-05:00
+source_url: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/01/statement-from-president-joe-biden-11/
+tags: statements-releases
+title: "Statement from President Joe\_Biden"
+---
+
+Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office,
+I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s
+decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being
+selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like
+use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw
+purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges
+solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying
+their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back
+subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given
+non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated
+differently.   
+
+The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political
+opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my
+election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the
+Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my
+political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political
+pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a
+fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.     
+
+No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach
+any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my
+son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who
+has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting
+attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve
+tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.
+Enough is enough.   
+
+For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the
+American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I
+believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also
+believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a
+miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend,
+there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will
+understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.   
+
+
+\###
+
+
+Executive Grant of Clemency  
+Joseph R. Biden, Jr.  
+*President of the United States of America*  
+
+To All to Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:  
+
+Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the
+United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause
+1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto  
+
+ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN  
+
+A Full and Unconditional Pardon  
+
+For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or
+may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1,
+2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses
+charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions)
+by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the
+United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Docket No.
+2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central
+District of California.  
+
+IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF I have hereunto signed my name and caused the
+Pardon to be recorded with the Department of Justice.  
+
+*Done at the City of Washington this 1st day of December in the year of
+our Lord Two Thousand and Twenty-four and of the Independence of the
+United States the Two Hundred and Forty-ninth.*
+
+\###