Congressional Republicans rip Biden for about-face pardon of son Hunter: So corrupt

Congressional Republicans ripped into President Biden after he issued a pardon for his son Sunday night – hammering the lame-duck commander in chief for reversing his vow not to intervene in Hunter’s federal criminal cases.Biden faced scathing criticism soon after he announced he had pardoned Hunter Biden, who was convicted of three felony gun charges in June and pleaded guilty to misdemeanor and felony charges connected to skipping out on at least $1.4 million in taxes in September.“I’m shocked Pres Biden pardoned his son Hunter [because] he said many many times he wouldn’t & I believed him Shame on me,” Iowa Sen.Chuck Grassley said in a social media post.“Most Americans can sympathize with a father’s decision to pardon his son, even if they disagree,” Arkansas Sen.

Tom Cotton tweeted.“What they can’t forgive is Biden lying about it repeatedly before the election.”Before and even after the presidential election, Biden and the White House claimed Hunter would not clinch a pardon from his father.“We’ve been asked that question multiple times.Our answer stands, which is no,” press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Nov.

8.Rep.James Comer, who chaired one of the congressional probes into the Biden family, said the criminal charges against Biden were “just the tip of the iceberg.”“Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence peddling activities.

Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden,” Comer said in a statement.“The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people.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 ...