U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday issued an official pardon for his son Hunter, who is facing sentencing for two criminal cases, despite assurances that he would not intervene in his legal troubles.
"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter's cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong," the president said in a statement, calling it "a miscarriage of justice."
The move is sure to bring about fresh scrutiny over the independence of the U.S. judicial system — especially at a time when President-elect Donald Trump has moved to appoint loyalists to the FBI and Justice Department himself.
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