First Lady Jill Biden supported President Joe Biden's decision to pardon Hunter Biden from criminal charges during a holiday press conference with National Guard members and their families at the White House on Monday.
“Of course I support my son's pardon,” Gilles said in response to a reporter's angry questions after his remarks.
Biden pardons son Hunter Biden before leaving Oval Office
First Lady Jill Biden, First Lady Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, Melissa Cohen Biden, and others leave the J. Caleb Boggs Federal Building in Wilmington, Delaware, on June 11, 2024. A federal jury found Hunter Biden guilty of all three federal felony gun charges he faced. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Hunter is Jill Biden's son-in-law.
The White House released Christmas decorations to the media ahead of the holiday season, with Jill Biden announcing this year's theme in a statement Monday as “a season of peace and light.”
“As we enter our final holiday season here in the White House, we are guided by our sacred values of faith, family, service to country, kindness to neighbor, and the power of community and connection.” the Bidens wrote It is listed in the commemorative holiday guidebook distributed to visitors.
The announcement pardoning Hunter's two felonies was made by the White House on Sunday night. The pardon applies to crimes against the United States that Hunter Biden “committed or may have committed” between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024.
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File image shows First Lady Jill Biden. (FOX News/Screencap)
“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” Biden said in a statement. “From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere in the decision-making of the Department of Justice, and I kept that promise even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted.”
The president went on to claim that his son was “treated differently” by prosecutors.
President Biden pardons Regarding his son, he differs greatly from his previous statements to the media in the summer, when he declared that he would not forgive his eldest son.
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Hunter Biden signed legal approval of the pardon on December 1st. (Obtained from FOX News)
“Yes,” President Biden told ABC News when asked if he would rule out pardoning Hunter ahead of his conviction in the gun case.
Days later, after a jury of Hunter's peers found him guilty of three felony firearms crimes, the president again said he would not pardon his son.
FOX News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
Fox News Digital’s Emma Colton, Andrea Margolis and Alexandra Rego contributed to this report.
