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It was yesterday that President Biden announced that he had offered a pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, the president currently heading to Africa, but before that, putting out a statement regarding the decision to offer this pardon.
Here's how it reads, in part saying, the charges in Hunter Biden's cases came only about after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election.
Then a carefully negotiated plea deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in the courtroom with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process.
Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter's cases.
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son, and that is wrong.
There has been an effort to break Hunter, who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution in trying to break Hunter.
They've tried to break me, and there's no reason to believe it will stop here.
Enough is enough.
Here's the truth.
I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe in raw politics has infected this process, led to a miscarriage of justice.
Again, that's part of the statement released by the White House yesterday, President Biden, on the offering of this pardon, many noting several times in interviews with the press and in front of reporters saying that he would not have taken this action.
The case in June, when a reporter asked him, here was his short response.
With regard to the question regarding the family, I'm extremely proud of my son, Hunter.
He has overcome an addiction.
He's one of the brightest, most decent men I know.
And I am satisfied that I'm not going to do anything.
I said I abide by the jury decision.
I will do that, and I will not pardon him.
So tell us what you think of this pardon: 202-748-8001 for Republicans, 202-748-8000 for Democrats and Independents, 202-748-8002.
Nancy in Ohio, Republican line on this offering of a pardon to Hunter Biden by the president.
Go ahead.
Yes, good morning.
I wanted to say that there are many fathers whose children are in jail or in prison who would love to give their children a pardon.
And it seems to me that this is a great power thing that President Joe Biden can do this for his son, but we the people cannot do this for our children.
Joe Biden is a person like I am, like the people are who would love to pardon their children who are in jail for next to nothing.
And remember that it was Donald Trump who instigated the first A STEP Act, which got a lot of minority people, black people out of jail for some kind of minute, stupid thing to do with drugs.
I also want to say that I've heard from the Democrats on your show this morning that Trump was indicted by all these charges.
Well, the Democrats in New York created a new law to get Trump.
It goes beyond what we're talking about, but we'll go to Marion Virginia, Democrats line.
Hello.
Hi, good morning.
Thank the Lord for answering my call.
I do think Biden should pardon his son before he leaves out of presidency because if he's already in counseling, I'm in the nursing field.