As outgoing President Joe Biden pardoned two turkeys — Peach and Blossom — on Monday, a bigger question loomed: Will Biden pardon his son in the final days of his presidency or will he keep his word and watch as his son Hunter Biden faces jail time?
Peach is a 41-pound white American turkey who “likes to eat hot food, tater tots and cross-country skis,” and hopes to one day witness the Northern Lights, Biden said. And Blossom “weighs 40 pounds, likes to eat cheese curds and watches boxing; (and) dream of visiting each of Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes,” the president continued.
“Based on your temperament and commitment to being productive members of society, I hereby forgive Peach and Blossom,” he said.
Fox News’ Jesse Watters said on his prime time show that the two birds are headed to “a farm in Minnesota where they’ll see some greener pastures,” before noting, “There’s a Biden who needs a pardon. Hunter,” referring to the president’s son.
“It was just two Thanksgivings ago that Hunter Biden, at the annual family gathering in Nantucket, convinced his father to run for re-election,” the Fox News host noted.
Hunter Biden will soon appear in two different courts for sentencing. He will be sentenced in federal court in Delaware on December 12 after being convicted of buying a gun while lying about taking drugs. On December 16, he will appear in federal court in California for his sentencing on tax fraud charges to which he has pleaded guilty. He evaded taxes, failed to pay them and filed a false tax return. Biden owed $1.4 million in federal taxes.
The suit was filed by Justice Department special counsel David Weiss, who had previously struck a deal with Biden’s lawyers, but it fell apart when a federal judge noted that the investigation into Biden was still open, as Deseret News previously reported. Republicans had criticized the agreement for being too flexible.
Throughout his son’s battle with addiction, President Biden has consistently supported him, offering unconditional support and reportedly maintaining daily contact, according to The Washington Post.
In light of the heartbreak the Biden family has endured, including the tragic deaths of his daughter Naomi and first wife Neilia in a car accident in 1972 and the death of his first son Beau from brain cancer in 2015, Hunter takes a special place in his father’s family. heart.
After Election Day, and after newly elected President Donald Trump cemented his return to Washington DC, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre confirmed at a press conference that the President has no plans to pardon his son.
But he is receiving calls for this from all sides. The View co-host Ana Navarro argued that Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law and former senior adviser Jared Kushner, in 2020.
“So, you know what? It’s your son. He probably wouldn’t have been prosecuted if his last name wasn’t Biden. Honey, you have two and a half months, I think it’s good that you’re pardoning Hunter,” Navarro said on November 11.
Should Biden fail to pardon his son, could the president-elect pardon Hunter Biden? Trump told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt last month: “I wouldn’t take it off the books…despite what they did to me,” as Forbes reported.
“Look, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they did to me, where they came after me so viciously … and Hunter is a bad boy,” Trump said at the time. “He’s been a bad boy. … But I happen to think it’s very bad for our country.”
