An uncomfortable tweet haunted President Joe Biden after he pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday evening.
Biden spared the younger Biden a possible prison sentence on federal felony gun and tax convictions, reversing his earlier promises not to use the presidency’s extraordinary powers to benefit his family members.
One tweet in particular came back to bite the president.
“No one is above the law,” Biden tweeted on May 31 after the culmination of Donald Trump’s trial in New York.
A jury had just found Trump guilty of all 34 charges in a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election through a hush money payment to a porn actor who claimed the two had sex.
“This was a rigged, disgraceful trial,” an angry Trump told reporters after leaving the courtroom. ‘The real judgment will fall by the people on November 5. They know what happened, and everyone knows what happened here.”
Trump’s words turned out to be prophetic, while Biden’s came across as hypocritical.
The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence following his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California.
Biden has reversed his earlier promises not to use the presidency’s extraordinary powers to benefit his family members
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday evening, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony weapons and tax convictions