Judge in Hunter Biden tax case rebukes president’s claims of unfair treatment

The federal judge overseeing Hunter Biden’s tax case issued a sharp rebuke of President Biden’s claims his son was unfairly prosecuted in new court filings Tuesday night.  

U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi said that President Biden’s statement announcing a full and unconditional pardon of his son stands “in tension with the case record” in Hunter Biden’s California proceedings. 

President Biden asserted in the statement that “no reasonable person who looks at the facts of (Hunter Biden’s) case can reach any other conclusion than (Hunter Biden) was singled out because he is (the president’s) son.” But Scarsi, a Trump appointee, notes that two federal judges “expressly rejected” the younger Biden’s legal arguments that he was unfairly prosecuted.