As President Joe Biden gathers his personal affairs from the White House in preparation for his departure, he'll also have to grapple with a huge elephant in the room: whether to pardon his son Hunter.
Ahead of his exit, Biden will at some point meet with Donald Trump, the President-Elect - who appears, at least publicly, to be more amenable to pardoning Hunter than Biden himself is.
While President Biden has tried to quash suggestions he might pardon his son, Trump said in a radio interview in October: "I wouldn't take it off the books."
"See, unlike Joe Biden, despite what they've done to me, where they've gone after me so viciously ... And Hunter's a bad boy.
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