Eldest son Hunter Biden faced disgrace as the outgoing commander-in-chief called on Americans to respect “the courts” and “pay their fair share” in his final speech in the Oval Office on Wednesday. He was seated very close to his father, President Biden.
The 82-year-old Biden, like his recently pardoned 54-year-old son, said in more than 50 years of public service that “believing in American ideals means respecting the institutions that govern a free society, including the courts.” He claimed to have learned that. I was watching.
In his farewell speech, the outgoing president called on wealthy Americans to “play by the same rules” and “pay their fair share of taxes.”
Last September, the eldest son was charged with three felonies for dodging $1.4 million in payments to the IRS while spending lavishly on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, and clothing.” He pleaded guilty to nine tax charges, including: Other personal items.
Hunter's guilty plea in the tax case followed a separate jury trial in Delaware last June in which he was charged with three charges related to a 2018 gun purchase while addicted to crack cocaine. Convicted of a felony.
As Mr. Hunter's sentencing date approaches, the president granted him a sweeping pardon, absolving him of any crimes he committed or may have committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024. .
The reprieve was issued in December after Hunter's pardon was vehemently denied more than a dozen times by White House officials and Biden himself.
“For me, family means everything,” the president, who is credited with enabling his family to carry out a multimillion-dollar plan to spread international influence, said near the end of his farewell speech.
First Lady Jill Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Vice President Doug Emhoff were also spotted in the Oval Office during the president's speech.
Biden's last day in office will be next Monday.
