President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter deepened an entanglement of politics and the rule of law that has tarnished faith in American justice and is almost certain to worsen in Donald Trump’s second term.

Hunter Biden said after his father, President Joe Biden, pardoned him that his mistakes have been "exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport."

The decision to issue a blanket pardon for his son Hunter will forever be a part of the president’s legacy. Across an extraordinary five decades in public life, with a long rise from the Senate to the Oval Office, his Sunday night declaration puts an exclamation point – and a question mark – on Biden’s tenure in a changing era of American politics.

President-elect Trump called President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, “an abuse and miscarriage of justice” Sunday. “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years?

The Office of the Pardon Attorney mostly recommends full pardons for people who have already served their sentences. Hunter Biden has not been sentenced.

President Biden’s announcement that he had pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, rattled the political world late Sunday. The president argued in a statement on Sunday that the charges brought against his son,

Hunter Biden in June was found guilty of falsely filling out a federal form denying he was addicted to narcotics when he purchased a firearm, lying to a gun dealer, and knowingly