Hunter Biden, son of US President Joe Biden, speaks to members of the media outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2023. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The 55-year-old — who pleaded guilty last year to evading $1.4 million in back taxes to the IRS and was convicted on felony gun charges — declined to mention that he had apparently been present for discussions on pardons during Joe Biden’s final months in the White House.
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"I’ve said this before," Hunter went on.
"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]."
The Atlantic's Sarah Chayes urged Biden to stop claiming his son "did nothing wrong." (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
"I realize how lucky I am; I realize that I got something that almost no one would have gotten.
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"But I’m incredibly grateful for it and I have to say that I don’t 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."
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’s testimony to the House Oversight Committee told The Post.
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