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Joe Biden pardons son Hunter over gun and tax charges

President uses executive powers in reversal of earlier promises weeks before leaving office

Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter over convictions on gun and tax charges in an extraordinary reversal of his promise not to use executive powers to benefit his son less than two months before the end of his presidency.

In a statement on Sunday night, the US president accused political opponents in Congress of “instigating” the charges against Hunter to attack him.

“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,” Biden said.

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