President Joe Biden said in a new interview Thursday that he will not pardon his son Hunter Biden, who is on federal trial this week on gun charges.
Biden sat down with ABC News’ David Muir and answered “yes” when the journalist asked whether he would accept the outcome of Hunter’s trial, which featured a parade of the first son’s ex-lovers as witnesses.
The president also answered “yes” when Muir asked Biden if he would rule out pardoning his son.
Biden also said he believed former President Donald Trump — his 2024 rival — received a fair trial.
“He’s trying to undermine it,” the president said. ‘He received a fair trial. The jury has spoken.’
President Joe Biden said in a new interview Thursday that he will not pardon his son Hunter Biden, who faces federal trial this week on gun charges
Hunter Biden arrives in court Thursday for day No. 4 of his gun trial. In a new interview, President Joe Biden said he would not pardon him
A week ago, Trump was convicted of all 34 counts of falsifying corporate records related to hush money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
Since the conviction, Trump has maintained there was rigging of the trial and called himself a “political prisoner.”
On Newsmax Tuesday night, the ex-president and presumptive Republican nominee went so far as to claim he could put his political enemies in jail.
“So you know, it’s a terrible, terrible path that they’re leading us down, and it’s very possible that it’s going to happen to them,” Trump said. “Does this mean the next president will do it to them? That’s actually the question.’
Trump’s trial ended just four days before Hunter’s got underway in federal court in Wilmington, Delaware.
The younger Biden is accused of lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, making a false claim on the application used to screen firearm applicants, saying he was not a drug user and had owned the gun illegally for 11 days had in his possession.
But at the time, Hunter was addicted to crack cocaine — as he detailed in his 2021 memoir Beautiful things.
Former President Donald Trump (left) is pictured leaving court last Thursday after being convicted of all 34 charges in the hush money case. Biden said the process was “fair.”
The president spent Monday, the first day of his son’s trial, at his lake home in Wilmington, while other Biden family members have gone to the courthouse to show support.
First lady Jill Biden was there for several days.
Hunter’s sister Ashley was also in attendance, as was Peter Neal, Naomi Biden’s husband and the president’s sister, Valerie Biden Owens.
Hunter’s wife Melissa Cohen was also in attendance and made headlines when she called a former Trump aide who was at the courthouse a “Nazi piece of s***.”
Witnesses called so far include some of Hunter’s exes: Hallie Biden, brother Beau Biden’s widow, Kathleen Buhle, his first wife and mother of three of his children, and Zoe Kestan, an ex-girlfriend he met at a strip club.
The president flew to Paris on Tuesday night and attended the D-Day commemoration in Normandy on Thursday.
He was interviewed by Muir on the sidelines of the trip.