sumberpedia – Hunter Biden yang sebelumnya dinyatakan bersalah atas tuduhan terkait senjata api dan bersalah atas penggelapan pajak, mendapatkan pengampunan dari Presiden Joe Biden. Keputusan ini menjadi sangat kontroversial, mengingat sebelum nya Biden berjanji tidak akan menggunakan kekuasaan kepresidenannya untuk melindungi putranya.

Biden menggunakan kewenangan eksekutifnya di hari-hari terakhir masa jabatannya sebagai presiden. Ia menyingkirkan awan hukum yang telah menyelimuti putranya selama beberapa tahun.

Sebelumnya presiden telah berjanji beberapa kali untuk tidak mengampuni atau meringankan hukuman Hunter Biden atas kejahatan federal.

Dalam pernyataan panjang pada Minggu malam, presiden mengatakan bahwa putranya telah “dituntut secara selektif dan tidak adil.”

Ia mengatakan bahwa ia tidak ikut campur dalam kasus-kasus tersebut tetapi bersikeras bahwa kasus-kasus tersebut diajukan karena tekanan politik terhadap jaksa federal.

Berikut pernyataan resmi dari presiden Joe Biden dilansir dari laman resmi whitehouse

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.   
 
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. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough. 
 
For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision. 

Hunter Biden adalah anak tengah Joe Biden yang berusia 54 tahun. Ia juga merupakan satu-satunya putra yang masih hidup dan anak pertama dari seorang presiden AS Joe Biden.

Pada tahun 2021, Hunter mengakui penggunaan kokain dan alkoholisme. Ia mengatakan ia menerima perawatan dan pulih dari kecanduannya.

Hunter menghadapi kemungkinan hukuman penjara federal selama bertahun-tahun karena berbagai tuduhan terkait kepemilikan senjata dan penipuan pajak.

Di bulan Juni, ia dinyatakan bersalah oleh juri karena membeli dan memiliki senjata api secara ilegal saat menjadi pengguna narkoba.

Hunter Biden seharusnya dijatuhi hukuman pada tanggal 12 Desember atas tuduhan terkait senjata api di Delaware dan pada tanggal 16 Desember atas tuduhan pajak di California.

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