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Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter

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There are less than 50 days until Donald Trump takes back the White House – so the Democrats are now doing some last-minute future-proofing. In a bombshell announcement overnight, President Biden revealed he has signed a pardon to a victim of a ‘miscarriage of justice’ whose case has been ‘infected’ by ‘raw politics.’ Who is this hapless victim you ask? Why, none other than the President’s own son Hunter Biden. And they call the Trumps nepotistic…

The U-turn comes just weeks after the White House denied that the President would make such a drastic move in the final months of his lame duck presidency. Biden, himself, said as recently as June that he would ‘not pardon’ his son, who was facing sentencing in two criminal cases on federal gun charges and federal tax evasion charges. His spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre even told reporters in July that ‘It’s still a no, it will be a no, it is a no and I don’t have anything else to add.

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