Judicial Watch Statement on Hunter Biden Pardon

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement on President Joe Biden’s controversial pardon of his son Hunter Biden:

Joe Biden’s execrable pardon of Hunter perfectly fits the Biden family’s arc of corruption. The pardon seems to be all about protecting Joe Biden and helping ensure his son will be less likely to testify against him. Indeed, Joe Biden’s pardon statement is full of false allegations about how Hunter’s prosecution (hamstrung by his very own Justice Department) was selective and corrupt. The only “selective prosecution” involved here is the decision not to select Joe Biden for prosecution.

The Biden gang tried to rig the prosecution of Hunter. It failed largely because of honest IRS whistleblowers and one tough judge. Joe Biden has broken his “promise” and pardoned Hunter for his role in the treasonous Chinese and Ukrainian business relationships involved in the tax case.

President Biden arguably overstepped his constitutional authority on Sunday by issuing an unusual blanket pardon for Hunter Biden for any and all offenses (known and unknown) for a ten-year time period (up until yesterday!).

As Joe Biden did not pardon himself, he can and should face a serious criminal investigation for his family corruption ring.

Will Attorney General Garland resign in protest and outrage now that Joe Biden has stated Garland’s prosecution of Hunter Biden was corrupt and selective? Are Biden’s criticisms of the Justice Department’s employees as corrupt “dangerous” or is that only true when Republicans, Trump, and conservatives criticize the Justice Department?

In the meantime, Judicial Watch has already expanded its Biden family corruption investigations to include this latest pardon scandal.

Judicial Watch has multiple federal lawsuits focused on Biden family corruption:

In June 2024, Judicial Watch received records from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) showing Mike Morell, former acting CIA director under President Obama, requesting CIA permission to publish a letter by former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed the laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine were Russian disinformation. Morrell’s request for prepublication review was approved in just six hours by the CIA.

In May 2023, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the National Archives for Biden family records and communications regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, Judicial Watch sued the Justice Department for all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

In December 2020, State Department records obtained through a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit showed that former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.

In October 2020, Judicial Watch forced the release of State Department records that included a briefing checklist of a February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm which was hired by Burisma Holdings to combat corruption allegations. At the time of the meeting, Hunter Biden was serving on the board of directors for Burisma Holdings.

In his new book Rights and Freedoms in Peril Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton details a long chain of abuses officials and politicians have made against the American people and calls readers to battle for “the soul and survival of America.”

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