WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden released a statement Sunday night saying he’s signed a pardon for his son, Hunter Biden. The pardon comes after the family spent several days together in Nantucket for Thanksgiving, and is just days ahead of when Hunter Biden was set to face his first of two sentencing hearings.

Hunter Biden has responded to his pardon in a new court filing. He informed a federal court that his father, President Joe Biden, had pardoned him of federal tax evasion and gun crimes. "Joseph R Biden Jr granted me a full and unconditional pardon for, inter alia, the offenses specified in the indictment in this case," he wrote.

Earlier on Sunday, Biden accused Republicans of unfair treatment and claimed Hunter was "treated differently" by prosecutors. Hunter Biden was convicted of three felony firearm offenses in a Delaware trial earlier this year, and then pleaded guilty to multiple felony tax offenses in September.