Hunter Biden won’t get pardon from father, White House insists

WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that President Biden will not pardon his son Hunter.

Jean-Pierre was adamant that troubled first son would not be granted clemency — one day after his probation-only plea deal on tax and gun charges collapsed under scrutiny by a federal judge in Delaware.

“Is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son?” Fox News reporter Mark Meredith asked Jean-Pierre at her regular briefing.

“No,” Jean-Pierre said flatly.

When Meredith attempted to ask a follow-up question, Jean-Pierre added, “I just said no — I just answered” and called on a different journalist.

The Constitution grants presidents nearly unchecked power to pardon federal crimes — meaning that Biden, 80, could effectively end the nearly turbulent criminal case involving his son.

However, such a decision would ignite intense political blowback.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has already made tentative remarks this week about launching an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden’s role in his son’s foreign business dealings in countries such as China and Ukraine.

Later in the briefing, Jean-Pierre said in response to a question from Salon reporter Brian Karem that 53-year-old Hunter didn’t receive “favorable treatment” from his dad’s Justice Department.

But two IRS whistleblowers said Biden-appointed US attorneys in Los Angeles and Washington, DC blocked charges against his son, leading to what assistant US attorney Leo Wise repeatedly admitted in court Thursday was an unprecedented plea deal.

Karem asked Jean-Pierre, “Can you state categorically that the administration has neither sought nor received favorable treatment from the DOJ for any investigation into the president, members of the administration, his family or former President Donald Trump?”

“Absolutely not,” Jean-Pierre declared.

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“The Department of Justice is independent, the president respects the rule of law, he’s been saying that since he was before [sic] president and that will remain the case,” she added.

Joe Biden repeatedly interacted with his son’s foreign business partners — including from China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine.

One of Hunter’s closest American associates, Devon Archer, is expected to testify to the House Oversight Committee Monday and explain that Hunter regularly put his then-vice president dad on speaker phone during meetings with his foreign partners.

Hunter’s plea deal to two tax misdemeanors and a gun possession felony would have been expunged after two years.

But US District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected Hunter’s plea deal on Wednesday after it became clear that the first son’s lawyers and the Justice Department held starkly different views on whether the deal would prevent the feds from charging Hunter with other past crimes, such as allegedly violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

The sides will appear again in court in 30 days after filings on next steps.