White House finally declares Biden won’t commute Hunter’s sentence even if he gets prison time
By Social Links for Steven Nelson
Published June 17, 2024, 3:46 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON — President Biden won’t spare his son Hunter from serving a prison sentence if he’s ordered to do hard time following his conviction on federal gun felonies, the White House clarified Monday — after it suggested last week the 81-year-old president was looking at the possibility.
“President Biden has ruled out any type of pardon or commutation or reduced sentence for his son, Hunter Biden?” RealClearPolitics reporter Philip Wegmann asked press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing.
“Yes, he has,” Jean-Pierre responded.
Both Jean-Pierre and Biden himself said last week that the president had ruled out a “pardon” following the 54-year-old first son’s conviction June 11 on three counts that carry a maximum of 25 years behind bars.
“I will not pardon him,” Biden said Thursday during a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during the G7 summit in southern Italy, his first public remarks on the matter.
The president did not specifically say whether he would use his presidential clemency powers to commute his son’s sentence during the press conference.
Jean-Pierre on Wednesday pointed to Biden’s June 6 remarks to ABC News while side-stepping a journalist’s question about whether the president would “would commute the sentence” of his only living son.
“I haven’t spoken to the president about this since the verdict came out, and as we all know, the sentencing hasn’t even been scheduled yet,” Jean-Pierre said at the time.
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