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Hunter Biden reportedly said in an interview this week that his father, former President Joe Biden, would not have pardoned him if current President Donald Trump hadn’t won last year’s election. The former president’s son explained in an interview with a Mediaite journalist that he would have been the easiest person to target to silence the Biden family, according to a of the interview. “I think that, and I’ve said this before, is that my dad would not have pardoned me if President Trump had not won,” interviewer Tommy Christopher quoted Hunter Biden as saying. “I think would have made me like a, you know, kind of the easiest, easiest target to just to intimidate and to not just impact me, but impact my entire family into, into silence in a way that at least he is not, it’s not as easy for him to do. Me being pardoned,” Hunter Biden reportedly added. His father pardoned him on Dec. 1 for any crimes he committed since January 2014, including gun and tax offenses he was awaiting sentences for. said that his son had been unfairly and selectively prosecuted. “I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further,” he explained in a . Trump called the pardon an “abuse” and “miscarriage of Justice” in a . Other national politicians also expressed concern over the former president’s action, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who is expected to run for president in 2028. “With everything the president and his family have been through, I completely understand the instinct to protect Hunter,” Newsom said in a statement to . “But I took the president at his word. So by definition, I’m disappointed and can’t support the decision.” Former President Biden said earlier last year that he wouldn’t his son. But less than a month after Trump won, he said he hoped the public would understand “why a father and a President would come to this decision.” “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” the former president explained. Hunter Biden reportedly expressed gratitude for the pardon in his interview this week. “I’m incredibly grateful for it and I have to say that I don’t think that it requires me to make much of a detailed argument for why it was the right thing to do, at least from my dad, from his perspective,” he was quoted as saying. Have questions, concerns or tips? Send them to Ray at .
