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Jill Biden Says Hunter Biden Was Pardoned to Prevent Trump From Targeting Him

Jill Biden said her husband lost faith in the justice system after Donald Trump won in 2024 and pardoned Hunter Biden, covering alleged offenses over 10 years.

  • On June 1, Jill Biden told Craig Melvin that President Joe Biden "changed his mind" about pardoning Hunter Biden after Donald Trump won the 2024 election.
  • Fearing the Justice Department would lose independence under Donald Trump, Jill Biden argued the process would not be fair to Hunter and that he would be targeted.
  • Despite previous assurances, the White House issued a "full and unconditional pardon" in December 2024 covering two federal cases involving gun and tax charges.
  • Asserting Hunter was "singled out" because of his father, President Joe Biden cited his son's "five and a half years sober" against selective prosecution claims.
  • In a January 2025 report, Special Counsel David Weiss rejected accusations of political bias, calling criticism of the investigation "gratuitous and wrong.
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Jill Biden Supported Pardon Because DOJ Was ‘Not Fair’ To Hunter. It Was Joe Biden’s DOJ.

Former first lady Jill Biden said during a recent interview that she supported then-President Joe Biden’s plan to pardon his embattled son Hunter, claiming that the Department of Justice — run by his administration — was “not fair” to the younger Biden.Biden, doing press for her upcoming memoir titled “View from the East Wing,” joined host Rita Braver for an interview that aired on the CBS News program “Sunday Morning” — and she suggested that the pardon was ultimately prompted by the Democratic Party’s 2024 loss and the fear that President Donald Trump would push for additional prosecution against Hunter.“The Justice Department changed, and the process was not fair to Hunter,” she claimed.Hunter, 56, initially landed a sweetheart deal that only gave him probation on three separate gun charges and tax evasion to the tune of $1.4 million — but left it on the table when his attorneys demanded immunity for him for any potential violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, ostensibly because any charges in that particular ballpark could also implicate other family members like his father.He was charged and tried in both cases by special counsel David Weiss, acting on behalf of Biden’s Justice Department. He was convicted in Delaware on the gun charges in June 2024 and took a plea on the tax charges in September. At the time, then-President Joe Biden and everyone in his inner circle declared that he would not pardon his son. But when former Vice President Kamala Harris failed to win her abbreviated White House bid, the Biden family calculus changed.“When Trump was elected, things changed and we knew that he would target Hunter. And we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go — I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,” Jill insisted, adding, “I truly supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe.”President Biden issued a sweeping pardon for his son on December 1, 2024, and also pardoned several other family members at the same time.Jill explained that he did so, “I suppose for the same reason, that he felt that they would be targeted.”

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Jill Biden says Hunter Biden was pardoned to prevent Trump from targeting him

Former first ladyJill Biden said that Hunter Biden was pardoned to prevent President Trump from targeting him after returning to the White House.

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