Former President Donald Trump said he expects Joe Biden to pardon his son Hunter Biden if he is convicted of crimes relating to the criminal charges he is facing.
Speaking to Breitbart News, Trump said:
“I think he [Joe Biden] would do anything. I think he’s a guy that would do anything.”
“He probably would do that.”
Hunter Biden faces multiple charges after Special Counsel David Weiss was granted Special Counsel status while investigating the president’s son.
Last September, Weiss formally brought three charges against Hunter relating to possession of a firearm.
Months later, in December, Weiss brought nine more charges against Hunter Biden, including failing to file his taxes, evading an assessment, and filing a fraudulent form.
However, the White House said Joe Biden will not pardon his son after Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated, “I’ve been very clear; the president is not going to pardon his son,” according to NBC News.
In the case where Biden loses the election in 2024, he could decide that he has nothing to lose and pardon his son.
“You know, I could have pardoned myself,” Trump said.
“I had a couple of lawyers that said these people are crazy; if you don’t do it, you’ll go through a lot.”
“I said I didn’t do anything wrong so I’m not going to do it. But I could have pardoned myself when I left the White House,” he added.
“That would have held up very strongly. Pardon is a very powerful right. I didn’t do it because I thought it would be totally inappropriate, and if you do that you look guilty somewhat.”
“But I had that option and I was given that very strong option by lawyers somewhat. I was given that by numerous lawyers who said, ‘If you want to do that you could because you’re going to spend a lot of your time in court and these people are totally nuts, they’re bad people, they hate our country, and they hate you,” Trump continued.
“They have Trump Derangement Syndrome, so, sir, you could pardon yourself now so you won’t have to go through it,’ and I said, ‘I don’t want to do that for purposes of history.”
“I don’t want that history that I pardoned myself, because I did nothing wrong.'”
