Republican senator says Trump should not pardon Hunter Biden

Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., says President-elect Trump should not connection Hunter Biden a pardon aft Biden pleaded blameworthy to national taxation charges successful September. 

"I don't deliberation helium should pardon Hunter," Johnson said successful an interrogation connected NewsNation's "Dan Abrams Live."

"I deliberation we request to beryllium precise cautious astir having a dual strategy of justness wherever the powerful, oregon the sons and daughters of the almighty get disconnected scot-free," helium said.

Johnson and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, person spearheaded the Senate GOP's investigations into President Biden's lad and allegations of corruption surrounding the Biden family. He has often criticized the Biden administration's Justice Department for purportedly treating Hunter Biden's alleged crimes with kid gloves, each the portion calling the assorted transgression investigations into Trump politically motivated.

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While Johnson is opposed to letting Biden disconnected the hook, helium did suggest that Trump mightiness commute oregon different trim the archetypal son's condemnation arsenic a amusement of bully volition and effort to unify the country.

"I could spot perchance commuting the sentence, reducing it, and it wouldn’t astonishment maine if President Trump would bash that," helium said. "I would not pardon Hunter. I would surely not. I wouldn’t shriek astir commuting his condemnation oregon reducing it successful immoderate way, signifier oregon form."

Hunter Biden was indicted connected 3 felonies and six misdemeanor counts alleging helium evaded paying astatine slightest $1.4 cardinal successful taxes portion simultaneously spending wealth connected "drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and different items of a idiosyncratic nature, successful short, everything but his taxes," according to the December 2023 indictment.

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Prosecutors besides allege the tax returns Hunter yet did record falsely claimed that things similar prostitutes, portion nine visits, porn website subscriptions and different idiosyncratic expenses were really deductible concern expenses.

The aim, according to the indictment, was to "evade appraisal of taxes to trim the important taxation liabilities" that Hunter faced.

White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre has been repeatedly asked whether President Biden mightiness pardon his lad earlier leaving office. Asked again connected Thursday, Jean-Pierre said the president inactive had nary volition of doing so.

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Hunter Biden, lad of President Joe Biden, arrives astatine the national tribunal with his woman Melissa Cohen Biden connected the opening time of his proceedings connected transgression weapon charges successful Wilmington, Delaware connected June 3, 2024.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

"We’ve been asked that question aggregate times. Our reply stands, which is no," she said.

Trump himself floated the thought of a pardon oregon commuted condemnation for Biden successful a vigor interrogation with Hugh Hewitt successful October.

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"Will you pardon Hunter Biden," Hewitt asked the erstwhile and aboriginal president connected Oct. 24. 

"I wouldn't instrumentality it disconnected the books," Trump replied. "See, dissimilar Joe Biden, contempt what they’ve done to me, wherever they’ve gone aft maine truthful viciously, contempt what, and Hunter’s a atrocious boy. There’s nary question astir it. He’s been a atrocious boy. All you had to bash is spot the laptop from hell. But I hap to deliberation it’s precise atrocious for our country." 

Fox News' Greg Wehner contributed to this report.