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Did Biden Break the Presidential Pardon?

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

How problematic is it for Joe Biden to pardon his son Hunter after promising, again and again, that he wouldn’t?


Guest: Ankush Khardori, senior writer for POLITICO and a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice.


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Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther.


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Until this weekend, Hunter Biden's December was fully booked, and not with holiday parties.

1:15.3

On December 12th, the president's son was due in federal court in Delaware, where he'd been convicted of lying about his drug addiction in order to buy a gun.

1:25.2

A few days later, he was scheduled to fly to Los Angeles and get sentenced for tax evasion.

1:31.3

But over Thanksgiving weekend, plans changed.

1:35.3

This is an ABC News special report.

1:39.3

Good evening, everyone. I'm Lindsay Davis at ABC News headquarters here in New York.

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