President Joe Biden made up for the collapse of a “sweetheart” plea deal by granting his son “sweeping immunity” from prosecution, respected legal scholar Jonathan Turley said.

Turley commented Sunday night, shortly after Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.

“Joe Biden: ‘I hope Americans will understand why a father and a president would come to this decision.’ Americans may have a more difficult time understanding how a president could repeatedly and adamantly deny that he would issue this pardon when he was running for reelection,” Turley wrote on X.

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