In short:
Outgoing US President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, saying “raw politics … led to a miscarriage of justice”.
Hunter Biden was convicted of gun charges and tax evasion and was facing sentencing hearings scheduled for mid-December.
Joe Biden said he made the decision over the weekend while spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family.
Please up vote this for the sake of visibility. It is clear that people here did not read the statement by Biden nor did they actually read the article.
The pardon was because the Republicans undid his[Hunter Biden] plea deal that the department of justice had agreed to. THAT was corruption. Political opponents should not be able to break up an already done pleas deal. The plea deal was fair and Biden said as much, but when Republicans broke up the deal, that’s when he decided to issue the pardon.
You really should read more than the headline.
Your conclusions aside, I think it’s fair to say people should read not only more than the headline, but more than this article or the statement by Biden.
For those interested, here is one reasonably expansive account: https://web.archive.org/web/20241202032428/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/us/politics/inside-hunter-biden-plea-deal.html