WASHINGTON — After repeatedly saying he wouldn’t do so, President Joe Biden granted his son Hunter a broad pardon Sunday.

The president’s son had been facing the possibility of prison time on federal gun and tax charges.

“…I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” Biden said Sunday in a statement.   

It was a reversal that Rep. James Comer, R-Tompkinsville, predicted on election night, saying Biden was “about to probably pardon his son.”

As chairman of the House oversight committee, Comer spent more than a year investigating Hunter Biden’s business dealings.

“The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people,” Comer said in a statement Sunday. “It’s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability."

The investigation by Comer’s committee produced no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by Joe Biden and ended without a vote to impeach the president.

Still, last month, Comer announced he’s written a book about the investigation.

Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Crescent Springs, previously spoke out against Hunter Biden’s conviction on gun charges, writing, “Hunter might deserve to be in jail for something, but purchasing a gun is not it.”

Massie said in a statement Monday, "If Joe Biden thinks the gun laws shouldn't be enforced for his son, he should pardon everyone who has been prosecuted under the provision that Hunter Biden unequivocally violated."

President-elect Donald Trump criticized the pardon on social media, but in his first term, Trump pardoned Charles Kushner, the father of his son-in-law, for tax evasion and making illegal campaign donations.

A few days ago, Trump nominated Kushner to be his U.S. ambassador to France.