PALM BEACH, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican presidential front-runner, told Breitbart News exclusively last week that he has been found guilty of numerous criminal charges facing Democratic President Joe Biden. Biden said he expected he would likely pardon his son, Hunter Biden, if he did. .
“He thinks so [Joe Biden] I would do anything. I think he is someone who can do anything. He probably will,” President Trump said in a more than two-hour interview at Mar-a-Lago last Thursday night. Would he pardon Hunter Biden if Joe is convicted of a crime? When asked, he answered:
Hunter Biden is facing several criminal charges brought by Special Counsel David Weiss. Weiss, the Delaware attorney, was given special counsel status last year in the Hunter Biden investigation. In September, Weiss formally filed three charges against Hunter Biden related to firearm possession. In December, Weiss filed nine more charges, including three felonies, against Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to file taxes, evading assessments and filing fraudulent documents.
The White House has repeatedly insisted that Joe Biden will not pardon his son Hunter Biden.according to NBC News, in December, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre made it clear that Joe Biden would not forgive his son. “I've said it loud and clear: The president is not going to pardon my son,” she said.
However, the NBC News article raises concerns that if Hunter Biden were to be convicted on such charges, and when, Joe Biden could be convicted at that time. is causing. Furthermore, Joe Biden will not face voters again after next year's election, win or lose. If so, Joe Biden would decide he has nothing to lose in that regard, either as a lame-duck outgoing president if he loses, or as a recently re-elected but term-limited president if he wins. , there is a possibility that it will be executed as is. To protect his troubled son.
As for the pardon of Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden, Breitbart News has regularly said that is the most likely outcome of this story.
Speaking of pardons, in an interview with Breitbart News, President Trump said that his lawyer, while still president, suggested that he pardon himself. No president has ever done such a thing, but the power of pardon is pretty absolute, and it's under scrutiny that he probably could have endured — to avoid the legal trouble he's currently experiencing. Trump said he decided against it because he was innocent and for historical purposes, he didn't want to be the first president to pardon himself.
“I could have pardoned myself,” Trump told Breitbart News. “I had some lawyers tell me that these people were crazy and that if they didn't do it, they'd be in trouble. I said I wouldn't do it because I hadn't done anything wrong. But I could have pardoned myself when I left the White House. That would have stood very strong. Pardon is a very powerful right. I did it because I thought it was totally inappropriate. It's not because I didn't want to do that, and if I did that, it would seem like there was some kind of guilt. But I had that option, and my lawyer gave me that very powerful option to some degree. Many lawyers. I was told, “If you want to do that, you can do it because you're going to spend a lot of time in court, and these people are completely crazy, they're bad people, and they're ruining our country.'' Because they hate you,” and they hate you. They have Trump Derangement Syndrome, so I said, “Sir, please forgive yourself now so I don't have to go through that again.'' And I said, “For the sake of history. I don't want that.'' I didn't do anything wrong, so I don't want that history of forgiving myself. ”
Details of President Trump's latest interview with Breitbart News will be released in the future.
