Hunter Biden has expressed that his father, President Joe Biden, would not have pardoned him if Donald Trump had emerged victorious in the 2024 election. In a recent interview with Mediaite editor Tommy Christopher, Hunter discussed the series of federal charges currently looming over individuals seen as political adversaries of Trump.

During their conversation, Hunter Biden emphasized, “I’ve mentioned this before: my dad wouldn’t have considered a pardon if Trump had secured a win.” He elaborated that his father granted the pardon because under a Trump administration, Hunter was uncertain about receiving a fair appeals process.

Hunter further remarked, “Donald Trump changed the landscape entirely, and I believe it’s quite evident how that shift occurred.” He acknowledged his own fortunate position and the privileges it entails.

Hunter also touched on the ongoing political climate, suggesting that Trump is far from concluding his “revenge tour” and remains intensely fixated on his father, President Biden. Hunter’s comments highlighted the charged atmosphere and ongoing tensions between the two political families.

The younger Biden said he recognized his privilege and “how lucky I am.” But his father’s successor isn’t “even close to being finished, with the, with his revenge tour and his absolute obsession with my dad,” he added.

“I think would have made me like kind of the easiest, easiest target to just to intimidate and to not just impact me, but impact my entire family into, into silence in a way that at least he is not, it’s not as easy for him to do,” Hunter Biden said. “Me being pardoned.”

President Biden pardoned his son in December 2024, a month after Trump won the presidential election.

Hunter Biden was found guilty in a federal case on three felony charges over his purchase and possession of a gun in 2018, violating the law by concealing drug use. He pleaded guilty in September 2024 to nine federal tax charges, avoiding a trial.

“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 in a statement at the time.

Trump, who was president-elect at the time, called the pardon “an abuse and miscarriage of justice” in a post on his platform Truth Social.

Some Democrats criticized the pardon.

Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) called it “unwise,” and Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) called the pardon wrong.

Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) said the then-president’s decision puts “personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.”