Jason Galanis, a former business partner of Hunter Biden, praised President Donald Trump for understanding “the law better than any lawyer” in commuting his sentence.
Galanis was serving a 189-month prison sentence for securities fraud until Tuesday, when Trump announced he had commuted the sentence. Galanis pleaded guilty to fraud charges in 2020. While serving his sentence, Galanis testified against Hunter Biden and his father, then-President Joe Biden, to the House Oversight Committee.
“I’m delighted to be able to be here to thank him,” Galanis said of Trump on Fox News’s Hannity Tuesday. “I think that big law is on notice, and the president’s on to them. And so be warned, the president is on to them, and I’ve never seen a lawyer smarter than President Trump who knows the law better than any lawyer.”
The businessman continued to allege that Joe Biden was aware of his son’s business dealings, citing two phone calls that Biden was involved in and Galanis was also on.
“Quid-pro-quo Joe was on the golf course negotiating with the Chinese Communist Party to be able to sit on the board and take money from the Chinese,” Galanis said.
TRUMP PARDONS FORMER HUNTER BIDEN BUSINESS ASSOCIATE DEVON ARCHER
Meanwhile, Biden used his final days as president to pardon Hunter from federal gun and tax fraud convictions and any offenses his son “may have committed or taken part in” dating back to 2014. For months leading up to the announcement, the president denied that he planned to pardon his son.
Hunter Biden was the 26th person to receive a presidential pardon from the 46th president. The pardon came after the Democratic Party ousted Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee and after then-Vice President Kamala Harris lost the 2024 election to Trump. Joe Biden had already set a record for presidential pardons, commutations, and clemencies affecting over 4,200 people.