
President Biden Says He Won’t Commute Son’s Sentence
Published on June 14, 2024
President Joe Biden on June 13 spoke about his son Hunter’s conviction in a federal gun trial, telling reporters that he accepted the guilty verdict and would not pardon or commute his son’s sentence. The comments came just days after a jury in Delaware found Hunter Biden guilty of all three felony charges in the trial, which probed the First Son’s descent into drug addiction after the death of his brother, Beau, in 2015. Mr. Biden was found guilty of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, falsely claiming on his application that he was not a drug user at the time of purchase, and then unlawfully possessing the gun for 11 days....
