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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Tuesday responded to President Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter Biden by urging the president to pardon many of the Americans who are imprisoned for nonviolent offenses.

The president issued a full pardon late on Sunday night for his son, claiming Hunter Biden was unfairly targeted and prosecuted. The blanket pardon, which covers crimes from 2014 through 2024, means the first son cannot be prosecuted or sentenced for his tax charges, his federal gun charge, or any possible crime he committed while on the board of Burisma. 

Jeffries praised the president as a compassionate person and leader, who has fought for the working-class, and urged Joe Biden to show that same compassion to Americans who have been “aggressively prosecuted” for nonviolent offenses.

“Throughout his life, President Joe Biden has fought to improve the plight of hardworking Americans struggling to live paycheck to paycheck,” Jeffries said in a statement. “Many of these people have been aggressively prosecuted and harshly sentenced for nonviolent offenses, often without the benefit of adequate legal representation.”

“During his final weeks in office, President Biden should exercise the high level of compassion he has consistently demonstrated throughout his life, including toward his son, and pardon on a case-by-case basis the working-class Americans in the federal prison system whose lives have been ruined by unjustly aggressive prosecutions for nonviolent offenses,” he added.

The comment echoes Massachusetts Democratic Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s call for Biden to pardon thousands of incarcerated Americans, who she claimed have been victims of an “unjust legal system.”

Pressley said that if Biden does grant clemency to the thousands of individuals then he would “cement his legacy as one of the most compassionate and impactful Presidents of our time.”

Misty Severi is an evening news reporter for Just the News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.