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Hunter Biden turned down a very favorable "sweetheart" deal which could have ended his gun and tax evasion cases last year.

A jury convicted Biden in June and he awaited sentencing Dec. 12. But President Biden gave his son a “full and unconditional” pardon Sunday for any federal crimes he may have committed from 2014 through the end of this year,

Liberal actor Sean Penn defended President Biden for his pardon of his son Hunter, which spares him from his upcoming sentencing in two unrelated federal cases.

The judge who presided over the California tax fraud case against Hunter Biden called out the president for mischaracterizing and minimizing the charges against his son in the statement where he announced he was pardoning him.

The former president, speaking at the DealBook Summit, suggested that he understood the move but that he wished President Biden “hadn’t said he wasn’t going to do it.”