Hunter Biden, the prodigal son who did business in Ukraine and China using daddy's name
Hunter was on the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and signed contracts while Joe Biden was Vice-President at the White House, the parliamentary investigations instigated by the Republicans lasted for years but never led to concrete accusations
from our correspondent in New York Luca Veronese
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The 'unfair accusations', the conspiracy of political opponents, the distorted use of justice and trials: the reasons with which Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a pardon closely resemble the 'witch-hunt' evoked by Donald Trump to defend himself in trials even during the election campaign.
Of course, the comparison does not hold if one looks at the charges and convictions: Hunter Biden's are crimes for which one hardly ever goes to jail in the United States; Trump in the trials, now wiped out with a slap on the wrist after his electoral victory, was accused of very serious offences such as having tried to overturn his defeat in the 2020 vote, or having stirred up his supporters who stormed Parliament in January 2021. Not forgetting the criminal conviction for false accounting - which has never happened to a former president in US history - and those in civil court.
A "full and unconditional grace"
.Yet even the elderly President Biden, like Trump's lawyers, has done everything possible to help and defend that 'unfortunate son' who was scarred as a child, together with his eldest son Beau, by the car accident in which his mother and younger sister died. A son destroyed by years of drug and alcohol abuse, reborn through detoxification, but passed through scandals that touched the White House.
The 'full and unconditional' pardon granted by Joe Biden to his son Hunter covers all crimes he 'committed or may have committed' over an unusually long period, 'from the beginning of 2014 to the end of 2024'.
2014 was the year that Hunter joined the board of directors of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, with a salary of $50,000 per month, while his father was in the White House, as Barack Obama's vice-president with responsibility for Ukraine.
