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The White House says President Biden agonized over pardoning his son Hunter Biden, a decision he says he made over the weekend.

The president's son was convicted earlier this year, federal gun charges and tax offenses,

and peers deep as shivram as more.

Hunter Biden was scheduled to receive his sentencings in both cases later this month,

but now he'll get a full pardon, despite the president repeatedly saying he wouldn't do it.

White House press secretary, Karin-John-Pierierre says the president believed there was a, quote,

miscarriage of justice in the process.

Hunter was singled out, and because his last name was Biden, because he was the president's son.

That's what we saw.

The pardon shields Hunter Biden from any further prosecution

by the Justice Department for anything he might have done in the last 10 years. The president

himself has not spoken to the press about the pardon since announcing it Sunday evening. Deepa

Chivaram and PR News. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Attorney General Pam Bondi was on Capitol Hill today.

Bondi meeting with, among others, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.

One-no questions were allowed. The 59-year-old Bondi spoke briefly,

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