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US President Joe Biden has issued an authoritative pardon for his lad Hunter, who is facing sentencing for 2 transgression cases.
In a statement, the president said his lad had been "singled out", and called his cases "a miscarriage of justice."
"From the time I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my connection adjacent arsenic I person watched my lad being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," helium added.
Hunter Biden pleaded blameworthy to taxation charges earlier successful September, and was recovered blameworthy of being an amerciable cause idiosyncratic successful possession of a weapon successful June - becoming the archetypal kid of a sitting president to beryllium a convicted of a crime.
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