八点最热报 | 拜登在当地时间12月1号宣布，自己签署了赦免儿子亨特的特赦令，表示亨特的指控是在自己2020年当选后才提出的，认为政治对手借由煽动这些指控来发动攻击，他说，亨特被挑出来检视，只因为他是拜登的儿子。（主播：梁宝仪）
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00:05U.S. President Biden broke his promise after taking office.
00:09In the end, he still used the president's power to shoot Hunter, his son, to prevent him from going to jail.
00:16Even if Trump takes over as president next year, this feature has no right to be revoked.
00:21Biden announced on December 1 that he had signed a special order to pardon Hunter, his son.
00:28He said Hunter's accusation was made after he was elected in 2020.
00:33He believes that political opponents use these accusations to launch an attack.
00:37He said that Hunter was picked out to be pardoned because he is Biden's son.
00:42Biden emphasized that even if his son is pardoned for being selective and unfair,
00:46he has always believed in the judicial system and adhered to the promise of not interfering in judicial decisions.
00:52Therefore, he hopes that Americans can understand why a father and a president would make such a decision.
00:58Hunter, 54 years old, is the first U.S. president's son to be convicted of a criminal offense.
01:04When Hunter bought guns, he lied that he did not take drugs and was suspected of illegal use of guns.
01:09In addition, he also involved a tax evasion of at least $1.4 million.
01:13Both cases are related to his drug addiction and alcoholism.
01:17In total, he could be sentenced to 42 years in prison.
01:21The case is scheduled to be judged on Dec. 12 and 16 of this month.
01:25But Biden announced the special pardon in advance.
01:29This special pardon covers all the previous crimes of Hunter since 2014.
01:36It includes Hunter's suspicion of illegal business transactions in Ukraine and China.
01:42After obtaining the father's special pardon, Hunter also issued a statement after his death.
01:46He will never think that obtaining a special pardon is a matter of course.
01:50And he promised to help those who are still sick and suffering in the future.
01:56Trump, who will replace Biden as president next month,
02:00criticized Biden's practice of abuse of power.
02:06After the U.S. President Biden, who will be re-elected in January next year,
02:09announced the special pardon for his son Hunter,
02:12Trump criticized Biden's abuse of power in his own social media posts
02:16and questioned whether Biden's special pardon included the Republican supporters
02:21who were accused of creating riots at the Capitol three years ago.
02:24Trump's spokesman emphasized in another statement
02:27that Trump will restore the judicial system controlled by the Democratic Party after returning to the White House.
02:31However, in fact, Biden is not the first president in American history
02:34to use special pardons to special pardon family members or close friends.
02:38The Associated Press pointed out that Trump also pardoned his son-in-law's father's tax evasion during his tenure as president.
02:46In December 2020, then-President Donald Trump pardoned the father of his son-in-law,
02:51and that raised attention.
02:53He also pardoned multiple close allies who were convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
02:58So there is a precedent for presidents taking pardon power to benefit family members, people close to them.
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