Jill Biden on Hunter pardon: "We just could not let our son go to jail"

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Jill Biden said she supported Joe Biden's determination to pardon their son, Hunter, due to the fact that they couldn't fto him spell to jailhouse nether President Trump.

Joe Biden had repeatedly pledged not to pardon his son, but reversed people astatine the extremity of his presidency.

"And past the Justice Department changed. And I deliberation that the process was not just to Hunter," Jill Biden told CBS News Sunday Morning's Rita Braver successful an interrogation airing Sunday connected CBS. "When Trump was elected, things changed, and we knew that helium would people Hunter. And we conscionable could not fto our lad spell to jailhouse connected a complaint that nary 1 would go, I mean, nary 1 has ever gone to jailhouse for."

Joe Biden repeatedly said helium wouldn't pardon his son, who was convicted successful June 2024 of 3 abstracted felony charges related to his acquisition of a revolver successful 2018 erstwhile helium was battling a cause addiction, which helium lied astir connected paperwork to get the gun. Hunter Biden besides pleaded guilty to 9 taxation evasion charges successful a abstracted lawsuit successful September 2024.

The elder Biden's determination to pardon his lad drew bipartisan criticism.

When asked by Braver if she urged her hubby to pardon Hunter Biden, Jill Biden said: "I genuinely supported it. I wanted him to pardon Hunter astatine that point, and I agreed with Joe."

Asked wherefore Biden besides preemptively pardoned respective different household members earlier helium near office, Jill Biden said: "I accidental for the aforesaid crushed that helium felt that they would beryllium targeted."

Jill Biden talked to Braver astir the election, her husband's 2024 statement performance, and her caller book, "View from the East Wing: A Memoir."

Watch much of Jill Biden's interrogation connected "Sunday Morning" connected May 31 astatine 9 a.m. connected CBS stations and streaming connected Paramount+.

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