Hunter Biden says his father ‘chose me over his legacy’ with controversial pardon

The former president’s son told Gov. Gavin Newsom in a podcast that the 2024 pardon from his father shows “how much you know my dad loves me.”

Hunter Biden acknowledged in an interview that aired Friday that his father’s presidential pardon of him tarnished his reputation as commander in chief and demonstrated that “he chose me over his legacy.”

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“That’s how much you know my dad loves me,” the younger Biden told California Gov. Gavin Newsom in an interview on his podcast.

Then-President Joe Biden had repeatedly vowed not to interfere in the federal tax and gun cases against his son, but wound up granting him a “full and unconditional” pardon in December 2024, shortly before the scheduled sentencing in the two criminal cases and not long before the president left office.