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An Academy Award-winning celebrity sounded off on the pardon of Hunter Biden with thoughts on further clemency after “one of the horrible hit jobs of all time.”

Actor, activist, and connoisseur of expensive amateur art, Sean Penn continued his habit of weighing in on political events during a recent interview with Variety. Not only did he consider the recently pardoned first son one of  “the finest people I know,” he faulted President-elect Donald Trump for forcing President Joe Biden’s hand.

“I do not believe that Joe Biden, had he won the presidency, would have pardoned his son,” argued Penn as many contended that the incumbent had lied with his repeated insistence that he wouldn’t pardon Hunter. “I don’t think it was a lie; I think it was a change of mind and circumstance.”

“Any father that didn’t do that would have been remiss,” the actor went on and asserted, “I don’t know if I want to have a beer with somebody who wouldn’t have pardoned Hunter Biden, being their son.”

As it happened, with the blanket pardon of the first son extending all the way back to 2014, the same year that he joined the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, Penn, known for his appreciation of and relationship with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was an admitted collector of Hunter’s pricey artwork.

Regarding the federal firearm conviction and guilty plea of tax evasion, in which Hunter was eligible for a combined total of up to 42 years in prison prior to his pardon, the actor expressed, “In part, because I am close with him, I have studied the case.”

Despite recently voicing a commonsense view on Hollywood’s selective diversity, his account aligned with the president’s opinion that Hunter had been a victim of political persecution as it was suggested, “And while there are technicalities within one of the cases that are associated with illegality, there is almost no precedent at all for the aggression with which [Hunter Biden] was charged.”

With the window closing for Biden to clear more names, Penn encouraged the resident-in-chief to issue more pardons ahead of Trump’s return in what he considered “a clown show, a dangerous clown show,” and told Variety, “It ain’t January yet.”

“[So] I hope that it is also in President Biden’s intentions to [offer] an ongoing concerted focus on people who have been wrongfully charged, overcharged, where the extenuating circumstances have not been fairly considered,” he said, “and that there will be many more pardons that are better for the world than leaving people to toil in prison.”

Having been in attendance at the White House state dinner for Kenya in May where Hunter had also been a guest with celebrities and establishment insiders, Penn’s continued fawning for the first son included his insistence, “This is a guy who has taken on the most severe addiction, and has so much to offer people who are suffering or families who are suffering through that.”

“And I just I’m glad that the possibility is there now that he’ll have the time and space to be able to offer that support to people, which I know is what he wants to do,” he added while noting he was open to bringing Hunter onboard at his non-profit, Community Organized Relief Effort (CORE), founded by Penn after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

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