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Joe Biden pardons son Hunter in final weeks in office
(www.abc.net.au)
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Please up vote this for the sake of visibility. It is clear that people here did not read the statement by Biden nor did they actually read the article.
The pardon was because the Republicans undid his[Hunter Biden] plea deal that the department of justice had agreed to. THAT was corruption. Political opponents should not be able to break up an already done pleas deal. The plea deal was fair and Biden said as much, but when Republicans broke up the deal, that's when he decided to issue the pardon.
You really should read more than the headline.
Your conclusions aside, I think it's fair to say people should read not only more than the headline, but more than this article or the statement by Biden.
For those interested, here is one reasonably expansive account: https://web.archive.org/web/20241202032428/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/politics/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html