Esquire Allegation that President Bush Sr. Pardoned His Son Neil Bush
Esquire posted an item Dec. 3 titled “A President Shouldn’t Pardon His Son? Hello, Anybody Remember Neil Bush?” and subtitled “Nobody defines Poppy Bush’s presidency by the fact that he pardoned his progeny. The moral: Shut the fck up about Hunter Biden, please.” It relates some of Neil Bush’s exploits, and states:
[T]his lucky American businessman[‘s] … father exercised his unlimited constitutional power of clemency to pardon the Lucky American Businessman for all that S&L business way back when. The president’s name was George H.W. Bush. The Lucky American Businessman was his son, Neil ….
However, as others have noted (and see also some of the comments to the article), the Justice Department pardon and clemency site doesn’t appear to have any record of any pardon to Neil Bush: I’ve checked the name search function, the Bush Sr. pardon list, and the Bush Sr. commutations list. A 2003 Washington Post article that describes Neil Bush as “the latest manifestation of a long tradition in American life—the president’s embarrassing relative” doesn’t mention any pardon o
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