Biden pardons Hunter with broad pardon covering all federal crimes from 2014-2024

President Biden grants Hunter Biden a sweeping pardon covering "all offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in" from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, a broad preemptive pardon that goes well beyond the specific gun and tax convictions. Biden reverses numerous prior explicit public statements, including at the CNN debate where he said "I will not pardon my son." Biden says he believes "raw politics has infected this process." The pardon triggers immediate political controversy, with critics calling it exactly the kind of two-tiered justice that Biden had long claimed to oppose.