President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeated denials that he would ever do so. The pardon was issued before Hunter Biden, 54, was expected to be sentenced for gun and tax evasion crimes later in December. He was facing the potential for prison time. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong,” President Biden said. The elder Biden and the White House had denied on multiple occasions, dating back to last year, that the president had intended to give his son Hunter Biden a pardon. “We’ve been asked that question multiple times and our answer stands — which is no,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in early November. Hunter Biden faced charges following the 2023 collapse of what critics panned as a “sweetheart” plea deal in the investigation led by special counsel David Weiss President Biden bemoaned how the plea agreement “unraveled” with “a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process.” The elder Biden also insisted: “Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.” This story is breaking and will be updated.