Joe Biden Falsely Claimed in May: ‘My Son Has Done Nothing Wrong’

Wendell Husebø

President Joe Biden believed as recently as May that Hunter Biden was innocent of the charges he pled guilty to on Tuesday.

“My son has done nothing wrong,” Joe Biden told MSNBC on May 5.

“I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my Presidency by making me feel proud of him,” he claimed.

Hunter Biden agreed to plead guilty to two federal tax violation charges and one violation of gun laws, though the investigation remains ongoing, according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Delaware.

The plea deal appears to exclude any charges related to the alleged Biden “bribery” scheme in which Hunter and President Joe Biden accepted $5 million each from a Ukrainian energy company executive, Mykola Zlochevsky, according to an FBI informant file reviewed by the House Oversight Committee.

KIEV, UKRAINE - 2012/03/19: Ukrainian businessman and founder of the Burisma Holdings company, Mykola Zlochevsky during a media conference. On the evening of September 24, 2019, Democratic Speaker of the House from California, Nancy Pelosi announced that six committees of the House of Representatives would undertake a formal impeachment inquiry against President Trump. The impeachment inquiry has been initiated following a whistleblower complaint over allegedly dealings of US President Donald J. Trump with Ukraine. The whistleblower report claimed that President Trump had "pressured" Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky during a July 2019 phone call to launch investigations into the actions of former vice president and 2020 presidential candidate Joe Biden and involvement of his son Hunter Biden in the Burisma Holdings Company. In 2014 Hunter Biden , the son of then-US vice president Joe Biden was appointed to the board of Burisma Holdings, as Wikipedia webpage reported. (Photo by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ukrainian businessman and founder of the Burisma Holdings company, Mykola Zlochevsky, during a media conference. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s comment in May echos his statement from October 2022. “I have great confidence in my son,” he told CNN’s Jake Tapper.

“I love him and he’s on the straight and narrow and he has been for a couple years now. And I’m just so proud of him,” the president added.

First Lady Jill Biden also went on record to defend her stepson as innocent.

“Everybody and their brother has investigated Hunter,” Jill Biden told NBC News.

“They keep at it, and at it, and at it,” the first lady added. “I know that Hunter is innocent. I love my son, and I will keep looking forward.”

After the announced charges on Tuesday, Joe and Jill Biden did not admit the error of their former judgment.

“The President and First Lady love their son and support him as he continues to rebuild his life,” they said through White House Spokesman Ian Sams.

“We will have no further comment,” the statement concluded.

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Follow Wendell Husebø on Twitter @WendellHusebø. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality.

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