It's important to add that President Biden said in an interview that he would not

pardon his son Hunter Biden now convicted of three felonies and it's just

important to note that this was the US Justice Department part of

the Biden administration that convicted the son of the sitting president without

interference from the White House or the President.

Merrick Garland, the Attorney General,

an independent attorney general,

who's often earned the ire of the White House

for certain decisions that he's made, appointed

a special counsel who had been a Donald Trump appointed US attorney

David Weiss in the state of Delaware to oversee this case and they brought it

without fear or favor they presented overwhelming evidence in the

courthouse behind me that Hunter Biden was using drugs and

illegally purchased a firearm during that time. And Hunter

Biden's stab at a defense, which was trying to raise reasonable doubt about some of that

drug use, did not pass muster with this jury, which returned a verdict within three hours

of deliberation sooner than many people had thought.

There was some speculation perhaps Hunter Biden's team was appealing to a hung jury trying to find

one juror who would be sympathetic to Hunter Biden.

That was not what happened here. They may have been sympathetic to Hunter Biden that was not what happened here they may have been

sympathetic to him but they really saw that the evidence was overwhelming in this

case that he violated the law and they didn't get to hear the context which is that this is a charge that is rarely brought as a standalone case as many legal experts have said and for that reason

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