Now pardoned, Hunter Biden looks at future: Writing? Podcasting? ‘Healing,’ says friend
LA TimesPresident Biden is accompanied by his son Hunter Biden and grandson Beau in downtown Nantucket, Mass. “It’s been a long, difficult road,” said Sager, who attended Biden’s criminal trial in Wilmington, Del., and dined with the family at night after court. “People don’t understand how intrusive and abusive and challenging that is to someone who is five years sober.” ‘The threat against Hunter is real’ Biden’s father had long said that he would not pardon his son and that he would respect the judicial and legal process in the criminal cases, including the jury’s verdict. “With the election now decided, the threat against Hunter is real,” said the white paper, released by Winston & Strawn, the law firm of Biden’s defense attorney, Abbe Lowell. “There’s a lot of people on whom the gears of justice have turned while they were trying desperately to maintain their sobriety — and no pardons for them,” Lovett said on “Pod Save America.” Co-host Jon Favreau cast the pardon as a time when the elder Biden’s “ego, again and again, has gotten in the way.” NYU Law professor Rachel Barkow, who focuses on criminal and constitutional law and served as a member of the United States Sentencing Commission, identified a different problem: thousands of petitions for pardon that have gone unsigned.