The extraordinary breadth of Hunter Biden’s pardon
President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, for any offenses over a nearly 11-year period doesn’t have many, if any, direct historical parallels.
Biden didn’t just pardon his son for his convictions on tax and gun charges, but for any “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024.”
That’s a nearly 11-year period during which any federal crime Hunter Biden might have committed — and there are none we are aware of beyond what’s already been adjudicated — can’t be prosecuted. It notably covers when he was appointed to the board of
the Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014 all the way through Sunday, well after the crimes for which he was prosecuted.
Hunter Biden hasn’t been charged for his activities
with regard to Burisma or anything beyond his convictions, and nothing in the public record suggests criminal charges could be around the bend. Congressional Republicans have also probed the Burisma matter and Hunter Biden extensively and could seemingly have uncovered chargeable crimes if they existed, but haven’t done so.