Biden grants pardon to son Hunter. Trump: "Pardon also for 6 January?"
'Selectively and unfairly persecuted': this is how the US president explains the decision. 'Targeted only because he is my son'
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Joe Biden announced that he had pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who was awaiting sentencing in two separate trials for illegal possession of a weapon and tax evasion. 'Selectively and unfairly prosecuted' is how the US president explains the decision. 'No reasonable person examining the facts of Hunter's cases,' he said in a note, 'can come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was targeted simply because he is my son, and that is wrong. There has been an attempt to tear Hunter, who has been sober for five and a half years, to pieces, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to tear Hunter apart, they have tried to tear me apart, and there is no reason to believe it will stop there. Enough is enough.
"Does Joe's pardon of Hunter include the January 6 hostages who were imprisoned for years? What an abuse and miscarriage of justice!": so writes Donald Trump provocatively on Truth, referring to the Capitol assailants, whom during the campaign the tycoon had promised to pardon if he won.
The pardon granted by US President Joe Biden to his son Hunter Biden is a 'caricature of democracy'. Maria Zakharova, official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told the Russian daily Izvestia.
