Former President Donald Trump recently reacted to the felony conviction of Hunter Biden, who was found guilty on all three gun charges in his federal trial this past week. Instead of mocking the Biden family for their misfortune, Trump elected to take the high road and express empathy.
Fox News asked the former president about the outcome of the trial, where Trump stated, “Well, I think it’s a very serious thing. I understand that whole subject. I understand it pretty well because I’ve had it with people who have it in their family.”
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee added, “It’s a very tough thing. It’s a very tough situation for a father, it’s a very tough situation for a brother or sister, and it goes on, and it’s not stopping, whether it’s alcohol or drugs or whatever it may be. It’s a tough thing, and so that’s a tough moment for the family. It’s a tough moment for any family involved in that.”
Trump has witnessed similar issues within his own family as well, where his brother Fred Trump Jr. passed away in 1981 at the age of 42 due to complications from alcoholism. The former president cited this experience as a critical factor in his abstinence from substances such as alcohol.
Meanwhile, President Biden indicated that he would accept the outcome of the trial and not pardon Hunter. “I am satisfied that I’m not going to do anything,” said Biden. “I said I’d abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him,” Biden said.
Furthermore, legal scholar Jonathan Turley weighed in on Hunter Biden’s conviction, suggesting that he will face more legal trouble as time goes on. The House of Representatives has initiated a criminal referral for perjury while he still faces a pending tax case.
“His counsel has got to refocus on that tax case. They are going into that case now with a convicted felon,” Turley said. The Georgetown University law professor added, “Now, these are very different types of claims, but there is a third front developing. Congress just referred, what I consider to be a very strong case, for a perjury investigation of Hunter Biden after his testimony before Congress.”
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The American Tribune recently covered other news regarding the Hunter Biden conviction, in which jurors revealed details about the case and what led to the president’s son being found guilty on the federal charges.
One juror illustrated that, “No politics came into play, and politics was not even spoken about,” demonstrating that there was not motivation for political retribution amongst the jury. The individual added, “Deliberating, we were not thinking of the sentencing, and no, I really don’t think that Hunter belongs in jail. If you looked at this case and you realize that when Hallie dumped that gun in a trash can, and it was retrieved, and Hunter Biden did not want to press charges because he was the victim of a theft of the firearm, he did not want to press any charges against Hallie and another thing that I also thought was they asked him, ‘did you want your gun back?’ And he said ‘no,’ he did not want that gun back.”