Disgraced first son Hunter Biden shocked the legal world yesterday when he suddenly plead guilty to multiple tax crimes instead of going to trial.
Yesterday, Hunter Biden pled guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanors in a Los Angeles federal court on and did so without having any deal with prosecutors to reduce the penalties that he now faces, which includes a maximum prison sentence of 17 years and a maximum fine of more than $1 million — penalties that are separate from the penalties he faces after being convicted of three firearm-related felonies in June.
However, many are speculating as to why he suddenly made the move without a plea deal in place?
Well, Hunter Biden released a statement revealing exactly why it pivoted.
He said that he wanted to spare his family the pain of going through another criminal trial.
“I went to trial in Delaware not realizing the anguish it would cause my family, and I will not put them through it again,” Hunter Biden said in a statement in reference to the media spectacle that he faced during the gun trial earlier this summer.
“I will not subject my family to more pain, more invasions of privacy and needless embarrassment. For all I have put them through over the years, I can spare them this, and so I have decided to plead guilty,” he said. “Like millions of Americans, I failed to file and pay my taxes on time. For that I am responsible. As I have stated, addiction is not an excuse, but it is an explanation for some of my failures at issue in this case.”
He said he could never repay his family for being there for him and helping him through his darkest moments.
“But I can protect them from being publicly humiliated for my failures,” he said. “For anyone now going through the scourge of addiction, please know there is a light at the end of that seemingly endless tunnel. I was where you are now. Don’t quit right before the miracle.”
Hunter Biden’s crimes do carry the possibility of extensive jail time.
During a White House press conference on Thursday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters President Biden will not pardon his son after Hunter Biden in the tax case.
“It’s no, it’s still no,” Jean-Pierre told reporters Thursday when they questioned whether the plea had affected President Biden’s decision on whether he would consider a pardon for his son. “I’m not able to comment on it, but I can say that it is still very much a ‘no’ to the questions I have gotten about if the president is going to pardon [Hunter].”