Sean Penn Calls Hunter Biden ‘One of the Finest People I Know,’ Urges Biden To Squeeze In More Pardons Before Trump’s ‘Dangerous Clown Show’
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Sean Penn urged President Joe Biden to squeeze in more pardons on top of his son Hunter Biden before President-elect Donald Trump’s “dangerous clown show” comes to town.
In a Variety interview published on Wednesday, Penn praised his close friend Hunter Biden, calling him “one of the finest people I know.” Penn’s home is decorated with paintings by the president’s son.
“I don’t know if I want to have a beer with somebody who wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter Biden, being their son,” Penn said of the president pardoning his son.
The filmmaker and activist defended the president further, saying he was not lying when he previously said he would not pardon his son. His new decision is simply due to changing circumstances, namely Trump, according to Penn.
“I do not believe that Joe Biden, had he won the presidency, would have pardoned his son,” he said. “I don’t think it was a lie; I think it was a change of mind and circumstance.”
Penn called Trump’s upcoming second term in office a “dangerous clown show” and urged Biden to push through more pardons in his final days in office.
“It ain’t January yet. [So] I hope that it is also in President Biden’s intentions to [offer] an ongoing concerted focus on people who have been wrongfully charged, overcharged, where the extenuating circumstances have not been fairly considered, and that there will be many more pardons that are better for the world than leaving people to toil in prison,” Penn said.
Hunter Biden was awaiting sentencing on tax and gun charges. Penn called his friend’s legal troubles “one of the horrible hit jobs of all time.” He praised the president’s son for overcoming addiction and said he’d be happy to bring him on board to work with his non-profit organization, CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort).
“In part because I am close with him, I have studied the case,” he said. “And while there are technicalities within one of the cases that are associated with illegality, there is almost no precedent at all for the aggression with which he was charged.”
