Actor Sean Penn recently defended Hunter Biden describing the first son as “one of the finest people he knows.” Hunter has returned to the national spotlight following President Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon that grants him immunity to over a decade’s worth of crimes, a controversial move that Biden repeatedly promised he wouldn’t do.
In a recent interview with Variety, Penn said, “I do not believe that Joe Biden, had he won the presidency, would have pardoned his son.” Addressing the accusations that President Biden lied about pardoning his son, Penn described it as a “change of mind” instead of a failure to keep his word. “I don’t think it was a lie; I think it was a change of mind and circumstance,” he said.
Furthermore, Penn applauded Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter, stating that he was “proud” of president’s decision. “Any father that didn’t do that would have been remiss,” the actor said in the interview. “I don’t know if I want to have a beer with somebody who wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter Biden, being their son.”
“It ain’t January yet,” he said, claiming he hopes to see more pardons before Biden leaves to White House. “[So] I hope that it is also in President Biden’s intentions to [offer] an ongoing concerted focus on people who have been wrongfully charged, overcharged, where the extenuating circumstances have not been fairly considered, and that there will be many more pardons that are better for the world than leaving people to toil in prison.”
Characterizing Hunter as an exceptional individual, Penn said, “This is a guy who has taken on the most severe addiction, and has so much to offer people who are suffering or families who are suffering through that. I’m glad that the possibility is there now that he’ll have the time and space to be able to offer that support to people, which I know is what he wants to do.”
In other news regarding the controversial pardon, The American Tribune reported on KJP fielding a question about the matter during a recent White House press briefing. Responding to a question calling out that Biden have vowed to not pardon Hunter, she replied, “First of all, one of the things that the president always believes is to be truthful to the American people. That is something that he always truly believes.”
“And I would encourage everyone to read in full the president’s statement. I think he lays out his thought process. He lays out how he came to this decision. He came to this decision this weekend. So, let’s be very clear about that,” she added. “He says it himself. It’s in his voice. He said he came to this decision this weekend, and he said he wrestled with this and — because he believes in the justice system, but he also believes that the…politics infected the process and led to a — a miscarriage of justice. This is his words. I’m just repeating what the president said.”
Claiming that any reasonable person would have done the same thing, KJP said, “He also said that no reasonable person, if you are looking at this in a good-faith way, if you are looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases and can reach — you can’t reach any other conclusion, right? And what we have seen — and not just us; there’s other people who have commented on the president’s actions in the last 24 hours — I’ve lost track of time — and could see that Hunter was si- — singled out and — because he — his last name was Biden, because he was the president’s son. That’s what we saw.”
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