President-elect Donald Trump responded to President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden on Sunday. Slamming the president’s description of Hunter Biden’s illegal gun purchase conviction as a “miscarriage of justice,” Trump argued that the actual “miscarriage of justice” is what the Biden-Harris administration has done to the “J-6 Hostages.”
In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote, “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”
Trump’s statement came after Biden announced on Sunday that he had pardoned his son, saying, “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.”
In addition to Trump’s reaction to Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election, the Trump transition team also provided a statement to Fox News regarding the state of the Justice Department under Biden’s administration.
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“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, told Fox News. “That system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people.”
The “full and unconditional pardon” Joe Biden issued Sunday on behalf of his son covers any offenses against the United States that Hunter Biden “committed or may have committed or taken part in” from January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024.
The president’s pardon comes after Hunter Biden was convicted of illegally purchasing a gun and pleaded guilty to tax evasion charges earlier this year. According to The Post Millennial, Hunter Biden was expected to be sentenced for both the tax evasion charges and illegal gun purchase conviction this month prior to the presidential pardon.
According to Fox News, Joe Biden previously pledged that he would not interfere with the U.S. Justice Department and would not pardon his son following Hunter Biden’s conviction. “I am not going to do anything,” Joe Biden said at the time. “I will abide by the jury’s decision.”
