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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Did Biden Break the Presidential Pardon?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate

Politics, News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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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. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Until this weekend, Hunter Biden's December was fully booked and out with holiday parties.

1:00.3

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.

1:10.3

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

1:15.6

But over Thanksgiving weekend, plans changed.

1:20.6

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1:23.6

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

1:28.6

We're coming on the air this hour with breaking news.

1:31.2

President Biden has just pardoned his son Hunter on gun and tax charges that he was facing.

1:36.4

The president reversed his previous position.

1:38.8

Is it fair to say that Joe Biden's essentially waved a magic wand and made these cases disappear?

1:45.0

Yeah, I mean, if that's how you, yeah, I mean, that is one way of looking at the pardon power.

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