Nikki Haley says ‘let’s wait and see’ when asked about pardoning Hunter Biden

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley on Friday wouldn’t rule out pardoning first son Hunter Biden if he’s convicted and she’s elected to the White House. 

Haley, 51, argued that it wouldn’t be “responsible” for her to make a determination just yet on whether she would grant President Biden’s 53-year-old son full legal forgiveness for his alleged crimes “when we don’t know all the details.” 

“I mean, I’m not even going to think about that,” the former South Carolina governor told NBC News when asked about potentially pardoning Hunter Biden. 

“I don’t even know what they’ve found him guilty on yet,” she added. “I know that they’ve, you know, what we’ve seen in the Department of Justice system, if anything, is they’re not treating everybody fairly.”

Haley argued that the way the DOJ has handled cases involving the Biden family and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton have been “very different” from how former President Donald Trump has been treated. 

The White House hopeful has vowed to pardon Trump, 77, if she’s elected president, telling Iowa voters during a town hall Thursday that it’s not in the “best interest for the country, and I don’t think our country will move forward with an 80-year-old president sitting in jail.”

Hunter Biden was indicted last month on nine charges — including three felonies — in part for allegedly dodging more than $1 million in taxes while living a hard-partying, “extravagant” life over a four-year period.

He faces a maximum penalty of 17 years in prison if convicted on all counts. 

The scandal-scarred first son was separately indicted in September on three felony counts related to false statements he made when purchasing a firearm.

He faces a maximum of 25 years in prison in the gun case.

Hunter Biden could also be held in contempt of Congress for flouting House Oversight and Judiciary Committee summonses demanding that he give testimony in the impeachment inquiry into alleged Biden family corruption.

“I’m not going to get into whether we pardoned Hunter Biden or not,” Haley continued during her sit down with NBC News. “Let’s wait and see what the charges are. But at this point you have to go and look at every case individually. And I don’t think it’s responsible just to throw out whether you would do something like that on someone’s son when we don’t know all the details of that issue.” 

When asked the same question by NBC News, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appeared to be taken aback. 

“Why? “No!” DeSantis exclaimed. 

The Florida governor argued that DOJ’s prosecution of Hunter Biden and Trump “are not the same things.” DeSantis also suggested that pardoning Trump could help “move the country forward” and that he would consider it.

“You have a current administration that is prosecuting the former president. That is not the same thing as a Hunter Biden prosecution. Hunter Biden was not one of the leaders of the opposition political party. So when you have that, that is not healthy for this country to be doing that.”

“If [Hunter Biden] had been not connected to the DC ruling class, he would have been prosecuted a long time ago. But those are not equivalent things in terms of, like, a Ford and Nixon and then, versus some of the things that we’re seeing with Donald Trump,” he added.