Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., told Newsmax on Monday that President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, is hypocritical.

“He pledged that he was not going to do this, that he was not going to pardon his son,” Van Drew said on “National Report.” “The issue here is not the pardon. Presidents grant pardons. And, you know, we all knew that he was going to pardon his son. Why don’t you step up, tell the truth and say, I’m going to pardon him?”

The president on Sunday pardoned spared the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions, reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.

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