Jill Biden defends Hunter Biden pardon, saying Trump would ‘target’ him

Former first lady Jill Biden in a new interview defended the pardon issued to her stepson, Hunter Biden, by former President Biden.

“When [President] Trump was elected, things changed, and we knew that he would target Hunter, and we just could not let our son go to jail on a charge that no one would go, I mean, no one has ever gone to jail for,” the former first lady said on “CBS News Sunday Morning.”

“Did you urge the president to pardon Hunter?” CBS News’s Rita Braver asked her.

“Oh, gosh, I truly supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter at that point, and I agreed with Joe,” she responded.

In December 2024, then-President Biden announced he signed a pardon for his son and argued that the charges........

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