Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said President-elect Trump should not offer pardon to Hunter Biden after Biden pleaded guilty to federal tax charges in September.
“I don't think Hunter should be pardoned,” Johnson said in an interview on NewsNation's “Dan Abrams Live.”
“I think we need to pay close attention to the dual justice system in which powerful people and the sons and daughters of powerful people go unpunished,” he said.
Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) have been leading the Senate Republican investigation into corruption allegations surrounding President Biden's son and the Biden family. He frequently criticized the Biden administration's Justice Department for allegedly treating Hunter Biden's criminal charges with kid gloves, calling the various criminal investigations against Trump politically motivated. I've done it.
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Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin (not pictured) participates during a campaign event with former President Donald Trump at the Fiserv Forum on Friday, November 1, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. . Trump and his allies are telling their supporters: They say they are on track to win by a landslide barring any fraud and are prepared for outrage and legal challenges if the election is not decided in Republicans' favor.
Mr. Johnson opposes releasing Mr. Biden, but said Mr. Trump could commute his sentence or otherwise commute his eldest son's sentence as a show of goodwill and efforts to unify the country. suggested.
“There is a possibility that the sentence could be commuted or commuted. I wouldn't be surprised if President Trump did that,” he said. “I will not forgive Hunter. I will never forgive him. I am not going to scream for his sentence to be commuted or commuted in any way, shape, or form.”
Hunter Biden was accused of avoiding paying at least $1.4 million in taxes while simultaneously spending money on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other personal property.” He was charged with three felonies and six misdemeanors. In short, everything is natural except for taxes.” Indicted in December 2023.
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President Biden and his son Hunter Biden embrace on stage at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, August 19, 2024. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
The prosecution also argues that tax Return Hunter ultimately submitted false claims that visits to prostitutes, strip club visits, subscriptions to pornographic websites, and other personal expenses were actually deductible as business expenses.
The purpose, according to the indictment, was to “avoid tax assessments in order to reduce the large tax liability” that Hunter faced.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has been repeatedly asked whether President Biden might pardon his son before leaving office. Asked again Thursday, Jean-Pierre said the president had no intention of doing so yet.
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President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden arrives at a federal courthouse with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden on June 3, 2024, on the first day of his trial on a criminal firearms case in Wilmington, Delaware. (Reuters/Kevin Lamarque)
“We've been asked that question many times, and our answer is no,” she said.
Trump himself hinted at the idea of pardoning or commuting Biden's sentence in an October radio interview with Hugh Hewitt.
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“Will you please forgive Hunter Biden?” Hewitt asked the former and future president on Oct. 24.
President Trump responded, “I'm not going to take it off the books.” “Look, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they did to me, despite what happened, for going after me so hard, Hunter is the bad guy. About that. There's no question about it. He was a bad guy. All you had is to watch the laptop from hell, which I happen to think is very bad for our country. . ”
FOX News' Greg Wenner contributed to this report.
