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By Bill Barrow, The Associated Press ATLANTA — Already reeling from their November defeats, Democrats now are grappling with President Joe Biden ’s pardoning of his son for federal crimes, with some calling the move misguided and unwise after the party spent years slamming Donald Trump as a threat to democracy who disregarded the law. The president pardoned Hunter Biden late Sunday evening, reversing his previous pledges with a grant of clemency that covers more than a decade of any federal crimes his son might have committed. The 82-year-old president said in a statement that his son’s prosecution on charges of tax evasion and falsifying a federal weapons purchase form were politically motivated. “He believes in the justice system, but he also believes that politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who along with Biden and other White House officials insisted for months that Hunter Biden would not get a pardon . That explanation did not satisfy some Democrats, angry that Biden’s reversal could make it harder to take on Trump , who has argued that multiple indictments and one conviction against him were a matter of Biden and Democrats turning the justice system against him. “This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation,” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis wrote of Biden on the social media platform X. “When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation,” the governor continued, a reference to the president invoking fatherhood in explaining his decision. “Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.” President Joe Biden arrives at Amilcar Cabral international airport on Sal island, Cape Verde Monday, Dec. 2, 2024, en route to Angola as he makes his long-promised visit to Africa. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) AP Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said on X: “This wasn’t a politically motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies and was convicted by a jury of his peers.” Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet said Biden “put personal interest ahead of duty” with a decision that “further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.” Michigan Sen. Gary Peters said the pardon was “an improper use of power” that erodes faith in government and “emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests.” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., called the pardon “understandable” if viewed only as the “action of a loving father.” But Biden’s status as “our nation’s Chief Executive,” the senator said, rendered the move “unwise.” Certainly, the president has Democratic defenders who note Trump’s use of presidential power to pardon a slew of his convicted aides, associates and friends, several for activities tied to Trump’s campaign and first administration. “Trump pardoned Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, as well as his son-in-law’s father, Charles Kushner — who he just appointed US ambassador to France,” wrote prominent Democratic fundraiser Jon Cooper on X. Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison said there “is no standard for Donald Trump, and the highest standard for Democrats and Joe Biden.” Harrison pointed to Trump’s apparent plans to oust FBI Director Christopher Wray and replace him with loyalist Kash Patel and suggested the GOP’s pursuit of Hunter Biden would not have ended without clemency. “Most people will see that Joe Biden did what was right,” Harrison said. First lady Jill Biden said Monday from the White House, “Of course I support the pardon of my son.” Democrats already are facing the prospects of a Republican trifecta in Washington, with voters returning Trump to the White House and giving the GOP control of the House and Senate. Part of their argument against Trump and Republican leaders is expected to be that the president-elect is violating norms with his talk of taking retribution against his enemies. Before beating Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump faced his own legal troubles, including two cases that stemmed from his efforts to overturn his defeat to Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election. Those cases, including Trump’s sentencing after being convicted on New York state business fraud charges, have either been dismissed or indefinitely delayed since Trump’s victory on Nov. 5, forcing Democrats to recalibrate their approach to the president-elect. In June, President Biden firmly ruled out a pardon or commutation for his son, telling reporters as his son faced trial in the Delaware gun case: “I abide by the jury decision. I will do that and I will not pardon him.” As recently as Nov. 8, days after Trump’s victory, Jean-Pierre ruled out a pardon or clemency for the younger Biden, saying: “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.” The president’s about-face came weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges. It capped a long-running legal saga for the younger Biden, who disclosed he was under federal investigation in December 2020 — a month after his father’s 2020 victory. The sweeping pardon covers not just the gun and tax offenses against the younger Biden, but also any other “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.” Hunter Biden was convicted in June in Delaware federal court of three felonies for purchasing a gun in 2018 when , prosecutors said, he lied on a federal form by claiming he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs. He had been set to stand trial in September in a California case accusing him of failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. But he agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges in a surprise move hours after jury selection was set to begin. In his statement Sunday, the president argued that such offenses typically are not prosecuted with the same vigor as was directed against Hunter Biden. “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” Biden said in his statement. “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. ... I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.” Associated Press journalists Will Weissert aboard Air Force One and Darlene Superville, Mary Claire Jalonick and Michael Tackett in Washington contributed to this report. Read more political news Newly elected Pa. lawmakers are on the payroll before they are sworn in. A proposal wants to change that. Court loss isn’t the end of fight for stricter gun laws in Pa., advocates say Biden pardons his son Hunter despite previous promises that he would not do so
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A key figure in a trucker protest that jammed Canada's capital and sparked a global movement against Covid mandates was found guilty Friday for his role in the blockade. The self-styled "Freedom Convoy" of big rig drivers and protesters rolled into Ottawa in early 2022 from across Canada to express anger at government protocols imposed to contain Covid-19. After three weeks of turmoil, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoked rarely used emergency powers to dislodge the protesters. Pat King was among hundreds of people arrested, and the first of the protest leaders to be convicted. Two other organizers, Tamara Lich and Chris Barber faced a separate criminal trial but those verdicts are not expected until 2025. King faces up to 10 years in prison after being convicted on five charges, including mischief, counselling others to commit mischief and disobeying a court order. Acquitted of more serious charges, he smiled at a packed courtroom of supporters as the judge read the verdict. "Mr King was not merely engaging in political speech," Justice Charles Hackland said. "Rather, he was inciting the protesters to continue their ongoing blockade of downtown Ottawa." King led hundreds of big rigs and thousands of protestors to Ottawa, bringing the capital to a standstill for more than three weeks. Residents and business owners complained of incessant honking and harassment. As the demonstrators' demands expanded to a broader anti-establishment agenda, solidarity rallies popped up at Canada-US trade corridors and various places abroad. Most of the evidence at trial consisted of videos King posted on social media in which he urged his nearly 300,000 followers to rail against government overreach. "Hold the line," he said in video posts, appearing also to delight in the gridlock and misery of locals: "Pretty hilarious that people haven't been able to sleep for 10 days." Trudeau faced strong criticisms from civil liberties groups and the opposition Conservatives for invoking the Emergencies Act to dislodge the protestors. But a commission of inquiry ruled it had been "appropriate," calling it "a drastic move, but... not a dictatorial one." amc/bs/bfm
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South Korean president's impeachment vote fails after ruling party boycotts itPresident Joe Biden’s unusually expansive pardon for his son could be an effort to guard against further investigations into his own alleged corruption. The pardon isn’t limited to crimes already charged but extends to cover offenses Hunter Biden “may have committed” over a nearly eleven year period beginning in 2014, when the younger Biden joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Biden’s decision will “hamper any further investigation into the financial corruption of the president and his family and their use of his office for financial gain,” Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, told the DCNF. “Despite the overwhelming evidence that he violated FARA [Foreign Agents Registration Act], the Justice Department never indicted Biden despite multiple indictments of other individuals for similar violations,” he said. Biden and his business partner Devon Archer each made $1 million a year sitting on Burisma’s board of directors, according to the House Oversight Committee. In December 2015, Hunter Biden “called D.C.” to discuss government pressure facing Burisma, Archer told the House Oversight Committee. Archer also said the Biden family “brand” was part of what made Hunter Biden valuable to Burisma. Biden’s pardon of his son going back to 2014 covers Hunters’ Burisma activities. Whether or not there was criminality, there might have been an investigation by the incoming Trump administration. That is off the table now (as is Hunter’s 5th Amendment claim before congressional... — Jack Goldsmith (@jacklgoldsmith) December 2, 2024 “Joe Biden says his son was the victim of ‘selective’ prosecution; the only ‘selective’ prosecution Hunter Biden was subject to, as revealed by numerous whistleblowers, was the selective effort by FBI and DOJ officials to delay, sidetrack, hinder and prevent serious criminal charges from being brought against Biden,” von Spakovsky said. “This pardon is a grand example of Joe Biden’s arrogance, mendacity, and obnoxiousness, and his view that he and his family should be above the law.” Hunter Biden may not have been charged at all without a judge’s careful questioning of his initial “sweetheart” plea deal, which prompted disagreement in open court about the extent of a provision the defense believed offered broad immunity. A Delaware jury convicted Hunter Biden on federal gun charges in June, and he was scheduled to be sentenced this month . In September, Hunter Biden pled guilty to felony tax charges, avoiding a trial in California after he was accused of failing to pay $1.4 million in taxes while spending extravagantly on “personal” expenses like drugs and strip clubs. If the case had gone to trial, prosecutors wanted to call Hunter Biden’s business associate to the stand to testify about money he received from a Romanian businessman trying to influence public opinion and policy in the U.S. The associate was compensated over $3 million between Nov. 2015 and May 2017, which he split with Hunter Biden and another partner, according to the DOJ’s indictment. (RELATED: Romanian Businessman Hired Hunter Biden In Effort To ‘Influence’ US Policy, DOJ Says) Biden could have commuted any prison term after his son’s sentencing or simply issued a narrow pardon for the charges he faced, former federal prosecutor Joseph Moreno told the DCNF. His decision to instead issue a broad pardon reveals that he “knows there are even more skeletons in the family closet that need to be scrubbed from existence.” It also means the Bidens “will now never face justice for their collection of over $20 million in revenue from sources which have never been fully accounted for,” he said, creating an expectation of future “pardons of Biden’s brother and other family members between now and January 20.” “This is a disgraceful end to Biden’s legacy as President, during which he used his Justice Department both to harass his political enemies and protect his son from the consequences of his actions,” Moreno said. “Biden’s memory will now likely be associated with a Nixonian degree of corruption and abuse.” 🚨🚨🚨IRS Whistleblowers Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joe Ziegler made the following statement after President Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden. ⬇️ “No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the... — Empower Oversight (@EMPOWR_us) December 2, 2024 Other evidence unveiled by the House Oversight Committee has revealed potential ties between Biden and his son’s overseas business dealings. In one July 2017 text message to a Chinese business associate, Hunter Biden allegedly warned he was sitting next to his father. “The step between this and a self-pardon is less than a nanometer,” Goldwater Institute Vice President Timothy Sandefur for Legal Affairs wrote on X. Margaret Love, the DOJ’s pardon attorney from 1990 to 1997, told Politico she has seen language this broad only in President Nixon’s pardon. “I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been charged, with the exception of the Nixon pardon,” Love said. “Even the broadest Trump pardons were specific as to what was being pardoned.” Blanket pardons like the one issued to Hunter Biden “have not been tested by the courts, though there is some debate about whether a president can Constitutionally pardon someone for acts that were never formally charged,” former federal prosecutor Katie Cherkasky told the DCNF. “It would be up to the Supreme Court ultimately if they were to try to limit the scope of the presidential pardon, which would only come about if prosecutors attempted to charge Biden with something that arguably fell within the pardon and he sought to challenge it through the courts,” she said. (RELATED: Here Are Times Biden, KJP Promised President Wouldn’t Pardon Hunter Before Breaking His Word) Harvard law professor Jack Goldsmith said Biden may benefit from the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity, which would prevent the Trump administration from launching a criminal investigation into “possible obstruction of justice” relating to the pardon. “The Court said that a pardon was a conclusive and preclusive presidential power, and that the president’s exercise of such a power is broadly immune from criminalization, investigation, or prosecution by a subsequent administration,” Goldsmith wrote on X. Biden repeatedly affirmed he would not pardon his son. As recently as November , White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre insisted a pardon was not on the table. “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,” Biden wrote Sunday. “There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here.” All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter’s byline and their DCNF affiliation. For any questions about our guidelines or partnering with us, please contact licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org .