After President Biden granted a full pardon to his second son Hunter Biden, Federal District Judge Maryellen Noreika in Delaware first dismissed Hunter’s illegal firearms possession prosecution, while California Federal Judge Scar Mark Scarsi also terminated the tax evasion case against him.
However, in his letter terminating the trial, Scalzi denounced Biden’s pardon of his son as “rewriting history,” pointing out that even if the president has the power to pardon, “the Constitution does not give the president the power to rewrite history.”
Hunter was charged with illegal gun possession and tax evasion by the federal prosecutor. He was originally scheduled to be sentenced later this month. However, President Biden, his father, finally went against his previous promise and pardoned Hang. special.
When Biden announced his son’s pardon, he cited in his statement that the reason was that Hunter had been addicted to drugs, and more importantly, that federal prosecutors singled him out for prosecution based on political pressure.
However, when Scalzi dismissed the verdict in the case, he refuted Biden’s argument that he had blamed the prosecutor. “The president claimed that Hunter Biden was late in paying taxes due to a serious drug addiction, and also said that he suffered different conditions. treatment, this statement means that Hunter failed to pay taxes on time due to drug addiction, but this was not the case.”
Scacci pointed out that Hunter’s tax evasion was not affected by drug addiction, because Hunter admitted that he continued to evade taxes “for a long time after he recovered from drug addiction” when buying luxury clothes and finding escorts.
The verdict also stated that Hunter admitted that he had “sufficient money to pay some or all of the taxes when they were due,” but “long after he became sober, he did not pay the taxes in order to maintain his lifestyle.”
What makes Scaci even more dissatisfied is that when Hunter’s lawyer requested that the case be dropped, he only submitted an online link to Biden’s press release on pardoning his son, rather than the official pardon order. He bluntly stated that “the press release is not a pardon.”
Biden’s approach to pardoning his son has attracted criticism from both the Democratic and Republican parties. In particular, Hunter’s defense team tried every means to drop the charges, but they were never able to provide evidence to prove that the prosecutors were maliciously prosecuting. This shows that Biden’s reasons for pardoning are very serious. Far-fetched.
