Hunter Biden tells BBC his pardon was 'not good' for America or his father's legacy

Hunter Biden Says Pardon 'Not Good' for America or His Father's Legacy Hunter Biden told the BBC that the pardon he received from his father, former President Joe Biden, was “not good” for America or his father’s legacy. Speaking in a wide‑ranging interview with Newsnight, he defended the controversial pardon, reflected on his father’s declining health, ruled out seeking elected office and discussed his work helping others recover from addiction. When asked about the 2024 pardon, he said he understood the criticism but added: “What would you person thought of my dada if helium did not bash that for me.” He continued, “It's thing that is easy criticised and for bully reason,” and then stated, “It's not fair… All I cognize is that I'm grateful that helium did it for me,” without acknowledging that the pardon was “not good” for the American people, the Constitution or his father’s legacy. He argued to the BBC that his father had acted out of concern that he would become a people nether Donald Trump’s incoming administration. “I was the lone 1 successful the satellite that could person gotten what I got from the lone idiosyncratic successful the satellite who could springiness it, my father,” he said. Hunter Biden also insisted that he and his father had never discussed the possibility of a pardon before it was granted. “There is nary mode that you tin person those kinds of discussions that would not go public,” he remarked. President Biden granted his son an afloat and unconditional pardon in December 2024, despite having previously said he would not use the powers of the presidency to intervene in his son’s legal matters. In announcing the decision, the former president said his son had been “selectively and unfairly prosecuted.” The pardon covered his son’s national weapon conviction, a taxation lawsuit to which he had pleaded guilty and other federal offences committed between 2014 and 2024.