Ben Shapiro Rips Joe Biden For ‘One Of The Most Corrupt Pardons In American History’

Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro slammed President Joe Biden on Sunday after the president announced that he is pardoning his son, Hunter, before he is set to be sentenced for gun and tax evasion crimes later this month.

Biden’s pardon of Hunter came after the president said multiple times earlier this year that he would not pardon Hunter if he was convicted. Shapiro said the extensive nature of Hunter’s pardon also takes President Biden “off the hook by proxy.”

“Tonight, we found out that [Hunter] was not only pardoned on the charges for which he ended up being criminally convicted or pleading guilty, he was actually pardoned with regard to anything he did between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024 — including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted, including any that have resulted in convictions by special counsel David C. Weiss,” Shapiro said.

“That is what Joe Biden issued tonight,” he added. “So it is not just the stuff that he is actually guilty of; it is anything else — any offense that he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during that entire period.”

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— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) December 2, 2024

Shapiro noted that the ten-year period includes in the pardon “pretty much everything related to the Burisma period,” when Biden and his family members are accused of a worldwide influence peddling scheme. The scheme, which was unraveled by the House Oversight Committee, included Hunter being tapped as business associate to the Ukrainian energy company Burisma’s board of directors.

Biden released a statement on his pardon of Hunter, writing in part, “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.” Hunter Biden faced charges following the collapse of what critics panned as a “sweetheart” plea deal that may have spared him from a prison sentence. In his statement, President Biden bemoaned how the plea agreement “unraveled” with “a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process.”

He also insisted, “Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases,” adding that “raw politics” tainted the process and led to “a miscarriage of justice.”

Shapiro ripped that statement as “self-serving,” adding that the Justice Department pointed to its prosecution of Hunter as a “balancing act” while it continued to go after then-Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.

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“Understand the corruption here: the entire attempt to convict Hunter Biden was done as a balancing act in order to demonstrate that they were not, in fact, a tool of the Democratic administration,” the Daily Wire editor emeritus said. “Their case was, ‘We can prosecute Donald Trump willy-nilly, but we’re not biased because we are also prosecuting Hunter.’ But Republicans were saying, ‘Yeah, that’s all well and good except that you know Joe is going to pardon Hunter the minute that he has the opportunity to do so, so it’s all a fake.”

“It turns out we were all right. It was a fake,” he added.

“I get it, you’re a dad,” Shapiro said of Biden. “But you’re also a super corrupt dad. None of these excuses hold water. You don’t get to claim that you agree with the justice system while you simultaneously undermine it through one of the most corrupt pardons in American history.”

Daniel Chaitin contributed to this report.