Former federal prosecutor Andy McCarthy said Monday that “no American” could get away with the gun and tax crimes allegedly committed by Hunter Biden.
President Joe Biden pardoned Hunter on Sunday in relation to a conviction over the illegal purchase of a gun in 2018 and charges connected to his alleged failure to pay taxes, stating that his son was unfairly prosecuted on crimes that Americans “are almost never brought to trial” or face jail time for. McCarthy said Americans are commonly charged with these sorts of crimes and that it would be nearly impossible to avoid jail time for similar charges.
“So if I rob a bank, but I bring the money back, that’s okay? It’s idiotic. As far as the gun case is concerned, that was not what they call a lie-and-try case where you fill out the form but you don’t get the gun because they find out there’s a problem,” McCarthy said. “[Hunter] actually got the gun. Those cases get brought all the time. And as for a tax violation, it’s just like the bank robbery, it’s a little bit of a drastic example, but I think it makes the point. Paying back the money that you owe doesn’t mean that you didn’t commit the crime. It’s not a defense. So it’s just — those are just silly arguments and in point of fact, he got cut break after break because he was Hunter Biden, because he was the president’s son. This idea that he was singled out for that reason, they actually tried to make the case against him going away which is a break that no American would get.”
A Delaware jury convicted the president’s son on three felony counts in June relating to his alleged purchase of a Colt Cobra in 2018 while knowingly addicted to drugs and for making false statements on the purchase form. He also faced nine charges in California over his alleged failure to pay over $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019, which could have potentially led him to serve up to 17 years in prison.
Biden said in a Sunday statement that Hunter was “singled out” by his political opponents for being his son, arguing that almost no one is prosecuted for how they filled out a gun form or for being late to paying their taxes after paying them back “with interest and penalties.”
“Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form,” Biden said in the statement. “Those who were late paying taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.”
Biden and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured the American people that Hunter would not receive a pardon from his father ever since his conviction over the gun charges.
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