Joe, you did the right thing
President Biden pardoned his son. I'm with him 100%. The gun charges against Hunter were bogus. No one would have been charged under the circumstances, No one ever has.
As for the tax charges, in every instance I know about, including not paying the federal government for up to a million dollars the accused pays restitution, fines and pleading to a misdemeanor with no jail time. That is the usual result.
That's what the deal was a year or so ago. That's how anybody would have been treated.
I would have thought poorly of President Biden if he didn't pardon his son or at least commute his sentence.
This was a normal action taken by a man for his son who committed what anyone would consider a "victimless crime".
After all, it's not like President Biden pardoned Hunter and then appointed him to be Ambassador to France.
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