Dem Rep. Dean Phillips blasts Biden after Hunter par­don, says some peo­ple ‘are indeed above the law’

A Demo­c­ra­t­ic U.S. con­gress­man on Mon­day said it appears that cer­tain peo­ple are “above the law” after Pres­i­dent Biden par­doned his son, Hunter Biden, despite repeat­ed­ly say­ing he would not give his son a pass.

Rep. Dean Phillips, D‑Minn., respond­ed to Biden’s deci­sion to par­don Hunter on social media, blast­ing the president’s own words from ear­li­er this year that “no one is above the law.”

“Let’s just say the qui­et part out loud, cer­tain Amer­i­cans are indeed above the law and influ­ence is always for sale,” Phillips wrote on X. “It’s time for the exhaust­ed major­i­ty to con­demn and con­front legal­ized cor­rup­tion.”

Pres­i­dent Biden issued a sweep­ing par­don for Hunter Biden on Sun­day after he had repeat­ed­ly said he would not do so. The first son had been con­vict­ed in two sep­a­rate fed­er­al cas­es ear­li­er this year. He plead­ed guilty to fed­er­al tax charges in Sep­tem­ber, and was con­vict­ed of three felony gun charges in June after lying on a manda­to­ry gun pur­chase form by say­ing he was not ille­gal­ly using or addict­ed to drugs. 

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The pres­i­dent argued in a state­ment that Hunter was “sin­gled out only because he is my son” and that there was an effort to “break Hunter” in order to “break me.”

Biden had stat­ed on record mul­ti­ple times that he would not par­don Hunter should a jury con­vict his son.

Phillips, who unsuc­cess­ful­ly ran for the Demo­c­ra­t­ic nom­i­na­tion for pres­i­dent, argued that per­haps both Hunter Biden and Trump may not have been charged in their respec­tive crim­i­nal cas­es under dif­fer­ent cir­cum­stances.

“Two things can be true at once: Nei­ther Hunter Biden nor Don­ald Trump would have been charged with cer­tain crimes had they not been polit­i­cal fig­ures,” he wrote. “Par­don­ing pow­ers have been abused by Trump and now Biden, and must be reformed.”

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The par­don has been met with wide­spread crit­i­cism from Repub­li­cans, some Democ­rats and the media.

Reporters grilled White House press sec­re­tary Karine Jean-Pierre on Mon­day, ask­ing whether Biden and his sur­ro­gates lied to the Amer­i­can peo­ple. Jean-Pierre respond­ed, “One thing the pres­i­dent believes is to always be truth­ful with the Amer­i­can peo­ple,” and repeat­ed­ly point­ed to Biden’s own state­ment on the mat­ter.

Biden has yet to take ques­tions from reporters on why he broke his pledge to Amer­i­cans and decid­ed to par­don the first son.  

Fox News Dig­i­tal’s Alexan­der Hall con­tributed to this report.