(NewsNation) — President Joe Biden has issued a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden, the White House announced Sunday night.

Previously, Joe Biden had remained adamant that helium would not pardon Hunter, who pleaded guilty to taxation evasion charges successful September. He was besides convicted successful a separate transgression weapon case successful June.

In his clemency announcement, the president called his son's attraction a "miscarriage of justice" and pointed to governmental information down his son's charges.

"Today, I signed a pardon for my lad Hunter. From the time I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my connection adjacent arsenic I person watched my lad being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted," Biden said successful a statement.

Trump and different Republicans person for years attacked the Biden household arsenic being criminally corrupt, with a peculiar absorption connected Hunter Biden’s overseas concern dealings. 

House Republicans sought to marque Hunter Biden’s concern a cardinal portion of its impeachment enquiry into President Biden. But their report failed to uncover a smoking gun, alternatively relying connected mostly debunked threads, disputed testimony, and circumstantial grounds that failed to straight necktie immoderate authoritative enactment from President Biden to his family’s concern dealings.

President Joe Biden hugs his lad Hunter Biden aft addressing the federation from the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, astir his determination to driblet his Democratic reelection bid. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool)

"No tenable idiosyncratic who looks astatine the facts of Hunter’s cases tin scope immoderate different decision than Hunter was singled retired lone due to the fact that helium is my lad – and that is wrong," his connection continued. "There has been an effort to interruption Hunter – who has been 5 and a fractional years sober, adjacent successful the look of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to interruption Hunter, they’ve tried to interruption maine – and there’s nary crushed to judge it volition halt here. Enough is enough."

Hunter Biden was acceptable to beryllium sentenced successful December successful some of the cases. The "full and unconditional pardon" volition screen some his weapon charges condemnation and blameworthy plea.

Could Trump overturn Hunter Biden's pardon?

No, President-elect Donald Trump cannot revoke an authoritative enactment of clemency.

The powerfulness to pardon, outlined successful the Constitution, gives the commander-in-chief "shall person Power to assistance Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, but successful Cases of Impeachment."

What was Hunter Biden recovered blameworthy of?

In June, a assemblage found Hunter Biden guilty of lying to a federally licensed weapon dealer, making a mendacious assertion connected the weapon exertion by saying helium was not a cause idiosyncratic and illegally owning the weapon for 11 days successful 2018.

The prosecution stemmed from a seven-page signifier that would-be weapon buyers indispensable capable retired erstwhile purchasing a limb from a licensed weapon business.

The signifier includes modular questions astir things that would disqualify idiosyncratic from ineligible weapon ownership, similar erstwhile felony convictions, intelligence wellness problems oregon amerciable cause use.

The assemblage successful Wilmington, Delaware, deliberated for astir 3 hours implicit 2 days.

Hunter Biden's taxation charges

Hunter Biden entered a blameworthy plea successful September successful his national taxation case, avoiding a proceedings altogether.

The taxation proceedings progressive charging Hunter Biden with a four-year scheme to debar paying astatine slightest $1.4 cardinal successful taxes portion pulling successful millions from overseas concern entities.

Hunter Biden had antecedently pleaded not blameworthy to the charges related to his taxes from 2016 to 2019. His attorneys argued helium didn’t enactment “willfully” oregon with intent to interruption the law, citing his struggles with intoxicant and cause addiction.

NewsNation's Nancy Loo, Courtney Han, Urja Sinha and spouse The Hill contributed to this report.