Incoming GOP Senate leader Thune supports continuing to investigate Biden family after Hunter pardon

Incoming Senate Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Monday signaled his support for Congress to continue to investigate the Biden family for possible corruption, despite President Biden a day earlier having granted a sweeping pardon to son Hunter Biden that protects him from criminal charges filed and those that could be filed in the future.

“President Biden repeatedly lied to the American people,” the South Dakota senator said, according to The Daily Wire. “This pardon, and the repeated lies the president and his administration told about it, will be a shameful bookend to President Biden’s tenure in office, and I would be supportive of Congress continuing to look into allegations of corrupt behavior,” he added.

Thune said Biden's "full and unconditional" pardon for his son covers time when he was a private citizen and it "raises further questions about the extent of Hunter Biden’s crimes."

The pardon covers crimes Hunter "committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024."

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., wrote on X that Biden "insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes." 

He noted that the pardon covers more than a decade of Hunter's actions.

"Trust in our justice system has been almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens and their use and abuse of it. Real reform cannot begin soon enough!" Johnson wrote.