White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre fielded questions from reporters on Friday about whether President Joe Biden would pardon his son, Hunter Biden, after he was slapped with nine new tax charges.
On Thursday, a California grand jury returned a nine-count indictment against Hunter Biden, charging him with three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses. The indictment alleges that the president’s son spent millions on a lavish lifestyle and drugs instead of fulfilling roughly $1.4 million in tax obligations.
If convicted on all counts, Hunter Biden could face a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison.
His attorney has called the charges politically motivated and, on Friday, the White House press secretary was asked by reporters to comment on the latest charges—and to reveal whether a presidential pardon is in the works.
‘Proud of His Son’
President Biden loves and supports his son as he faces a fresh round of criminal charges, according to the press secretary.
“The president has said this before, and he will continue to say, which is that he loves his son and supports him as he continues to rebuild his life,” Ms. Jean-Pierre told reporters while on board Air Force One. “He’s proud of his son.”
A reporter then asked whether a presidential pardon was in the works for Hunter Biden.
“You’ve said before that the president would not pardon his son. Is that still the case?” the reporter asked.
“Nothing has changed. That is still the case,” Ms. Jean-Pierre replied.
While leaving the White House on Friday, President Biden was asked by reporters whether he had spoken to his son after the new charges were revealed and whether he had any comment. The president ignored reporters’ questions and walked away.
Abbe Lowell, Hunter Biden’s attorney, said that the latest charges—as well as the prior ones—were driven by political rather than substantive factors.
“Based on the facts and the law, if Hunter’s last name was anything other than Biden, the charges in Delaware, and now California, would not have been brought,” Mr. Lowell said.
For his part, Hunter Biden has accused Republicans of “weaponizing” his mistakes and struggles with drug and alcohol addiction.
Republicans, meanwhile, have been investigating President Biden for allegedly profiting off his family’s business dealings, in particular those of Hunter Biden.
While the president has denied wrongdoing, a recent poll shows that a majority of Americans believe that President Biden acted either illegally or unethically in how he handled his son’s international business affairs.
The House Oversight Committee has released more than 20 examples of evidence tying President Biden to his son’s business affairs.
New Charges Against Hunter Biden
On Thursday, special counsel David Weiss announced the latest indictment against Hunter Biden, which alleges that he failed to fulfill his tax obligations between 2016 and 2019.
Instead of paying his taxes, Hunter Biden “spent this money on drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes,” per the indictment.
The charges include three counts of failure to pay taxes for the years 2016, 2017, and 2019, and three counts of failure to file tax returns for the years 2017 and 2018.
“The Defendant spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle at the same time he chose not to pay his taxes,” reads the indictment.
Additionally, Hunter Biden faces charges of tax evasion, filing a false return, and filing a false return for his company, Owasco PC, for the tax year 2018.
His alleged actions involved a deliberate effort to avoid paying taxes, including subverting his own company’s payroll and tax withholding process by withdrawing millions outside of the established procedures, according to the indictment.
The latest indictment comes after a plea deal that Hunter Biden entered into with prosecutors fell apart over the summer after a judge objected to some of the terms.
Gun Charges and Plea Deal
Earlier this year, Hunter Biden was charged with several felony counts in connection with allegations he made false statements to a gun dealer and possessed a firearm while using drugs.
A conviction on those charges could land him behind bars for as long as 25 years.
However, Hunter Biden agreed with prosecutors to enter a so-called diversion agreement for the gun charges, which would have averted a criminal trial and allowed him to avoid prison time in exchange for certain conditions.
Republicans objected to what they described as a sweetheart deal, which ultimately fell apart in court.
In an unusual twist, Hunter Biden’s attorney suggested that the diversion agreement’s terms were still in effect, in line with earlier court filings by the defense team.
However, the special counsel, Mr. Weiss, said in a separate filing that because the agreement never went into effect, “none of its terms are binding on either party.”
Democrats, meanwhile, have lamented that Hunter Biden’s indictment could be politically damaging to his father, President Biden.
“POLITICALLY MOTIVATED CHARGES?” – Hunter Biden’s crimes are much worse, and much more provable than any of the manufactured charges against former President Trump.
Democrats are pros at politically motivated charges. The problem is the double standards of how Democrats are treated as to how Republicans are treated by the media courts.
Lately Hunter is sob sistering remarks that claim the Republicans are out to kill him in order to destroy his father’s Presidency intimating his death would destroy his dad.,,,seeking sympathy from future potentially brain dead jurors to grasp. If Joe was as honest with himself, he like many threatened crime family members would be relieved if their Hunter problem mysteriously ended in another Clintonian Arkansas dirt bath, or family member arranged Fentanyl laced cocaine overdose. Like most accusations against Conservatives, this is just another type of crime that they themselves have already committed, or are about to commit. Hunter has become the Hunted,,,by his own CYA people. When running against Trump in 2020 he warned that the FBI has a million ways to make Trump’s life miserable and did so after Joe Got elected. This sword cuts BOTH ways when powerful government agencies and personality feel threatened. Hunter’s mouth in true fashion is becoming the very snare and trap that will do him in and others. If he plans on prevailing he should keep his trap shut,,,but then neither THE PEOPLE nor the truth would prevail.
But, but, Orange man bad!
Mitt Romney, Now there’s a class-Act -( RINO,) if ever there was one, Mit Rommney standing up for democrat president Joe Biden – ” You Can’t Impeach For Sins Of The Son.”
To parahrase Mitt.Perhaps.
I STILL have no damn clue, WHY The voters of UTAH ever saw him as being even “Conservative lite’..
Just goes to show you one more of Joe’s lies revealed,,,like “Hunter is the smartest guy he knows”? With all his failures in every category Joe inserts himself, perhaps he is, including Joe himself. Even a blind man who cannot afford his groceries knows that smart is not a Biden crime family member necessity to qualify them for improperly handling other people’s socially and criminally redistributed money, all of which gets dirty once the Bidens get their hands on it. When your family tree resembles a stripper’s dancing pole after all the green has been gleaned off the limbs, and the diseased branches get broken off, you know these guys are not fit to be hired as Janitors. Claiming all the dirt they find on this family is just politically motivated, is like saying a chimney sweep got dirty because fireplaces were not environmentally banned by the government. At least chimney sweeps get dirty working and employed. They do have one thing in common with the Bidens,,,They are not afraid to get their hands, heads and pocketed coins dirty, and around Christmas time imagine themselves Santa going down the chimney to put lumps of coal in our stockings, singing “Rudolph with your nose so brown, won’t you guide our slayed to town.” D,C, that is;
“Well the first thing you know ol Joe’s a millionaire
The kinfolk said “Don’t move away from there”,
They said D.C is the very place to be”
So they loaded up the Vette and Laudered fast and free”
AND just like the Clintons, i fear NO AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE of guilt, will see EITHER of these 2, ever spend a single day in jail.
I’d walk away too if I were Joe knowing that the house of cards was falling down. Hunter, ironically holds cards that could take his father down.
These 2 deserve whatever they have coming to them for their lying and criminal activity.
Hunter better hope he has no incriminating evidence on the Clintons, or might just end up like Jeffey Epstein when he goes to Prison. I’m sure Hunter and bill shared some of the same women. who might start talking faster than a Chatty Kathy doll when the uncorrupted whistle blowers of the FBI starts pulling their strings.
Maybe that’s WHY clinton’s not shown any worries here. BECAUSE SHE knows even IF He has something, he’s gonna be too SCARED to say anything, OR knows his CREDIBILITY is shot to heck.
Hillary Clinton’s,” Basket Full Of Deplorables,”might takes on a whole New Meaning when now Applied to the democrat party Elite.
None of this would be an issue right now if we had a Justice Department that wasn’t partisan and corrupt. Hunter would have been convicted long ago and Joe would have been impeached. If they can spend four years trying to find something to get Trump on think what they could have done with all the evidence they have against the Bidens. You can’t get justice with a dishonorable Justice Department, just ask anyone living in a third world country.
Two-Tired Justice ,” For Thee, But not for ME.”