WASHINGTON Shortly after President Joe Biden declared that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden, Republican politicians publicly erupted in rage.
Steven Cheung, the communications director for President-elect Donald Trump, responded to Biden’s announcement without mentioning either the president or his son.
“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,” Cheung said in a press release.
“That system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people,” he said.
In social media posts, some Republicans in Congress who have long criticized Hunter Biden’s actions instantly criticized the president’s decision, accusing him of hypocrisy and claiming it was an attempt to evade responsibility.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., wrote on X that “His FBI and DOJ raided Barron’s bedroom and Melania’s closet at Mar-a-Lago,” alluding to the government raid on Mar-a-Lago that was part of the now-dismissed case involving secret information against former President Donald Trump. “Joe Biden is a liar and a hypocrite, all the way to the end.”
In a post on X, Rep. Andy Biggs, a Republican from Arizona, stated that the president “will go down as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.”
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chair of the House Oversight Committee, wrote on X that Hunter Biden deserves criminal referrals to the Department of Justice suggesting charges against him. “It’s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability,” he wrote.
Biden’s choice “shocked” him, according to Senator Chuck Grassley, a Republican from Iowa.
“I m shocked Pres Biden pardoned his son Hunter bc he said many many times he wouldn t & I believed him Shame on me,” stated hisX post.
While condemning the action, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., contended that Americans could probably sympathize with Biden.
“Most Americans can sympathize with a father s decision to pardon his son, even if they disagree,” he wrote on Facebook. “What they can t forgive is Biden lying about it repeatedly before the election.”
Republicans dominated the initial responses to the news, although Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, also voiced his disapproval of Biden’s choice.
As a father, Polis wrote, “I am disappointed that President @JoeBiden put his family before the country, even though I certainly understand his natural desire to help his son by pardoning him.” Unfortunately, this will damage his reputation and set a poor precedent that could be used by future presidents.
In his decision-making statement, Biden’s elder claimed that his son was “being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.”
NBC News was the first to report on Biden’s plans to pardon his son, following the president’s repeated public declarations that he would not pardon Hunter Biden.
“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son and that is wrong,” the president stated in his statement. “There has been an effort to break Hunter who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution.”
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