Donald Trump Jr. reacted Friday to the news that President Joe Biden commuted the prison sentence of a Chinese national who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
“Why on earth would Joe Biden jail/pardon a Chinese citizen for possessing 47,000 child porn images?” Trump Jr. asked. on social media and shared a Dallas Morning News article about the case.
Shanlin Jin, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography after he was arrested in January 2021 for having 47,000 child pornography images on his computer. according to to the Dallas Morning News.
Investigators said there was child pornography on Jin’s computer when they walked into his home with a search warrant.
In July 2022, Jin was sentenced to eight years in prison.
Trump Jr. speculated that the Chinese Communist Party may have used the information they had about Biden’s “crime family” as a weapon to get what they wanted from the US president.
“There’s so much more to come out,” he added.
The court records noted that an agent testified that Jin’s family had ties to “influential members of the Communist Party in China.”
Donald Trump Jr. challenged President Joe Biden over one of his commuted sentences
The president’s decision Thursday to commute the sentences of 1,500 criminals prompted further scrutiny of Biden’s list of pardons and commutations, prompting the discovery of the details surrounding Jin’s crimes.
Biden quietly commuted Jin’s sentence in November as part of a prison swap with China, regaining the release of U.S. citizens abroad.
Other Chinese nationals who received clemency from Biden included Chinese spy Ji Chaoqun, who was convicted of “conspiracy to defraud the United States; impersonate agents of foreign governments; statements or statements in general’.
Another was Yanjun Xu, who was convicted in 2022 of “conspiracy to commit economic espionage; conspiracy to commit theft of trade secrets; attempted economic espionage through theft or fraud; attempted theft of trade secrets through theft or deception.”
US President Joe Biden included the commutation of three Chinese nationals in exchange for detained Americans
The Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Jin and the other Chinese citizens were “wrongfully detained by the United States” after they were released and returned to China.
As a result of the commutation of Chinese nationals, the Biden administration secured the release of three Americans.
They were Mark Swidan, a Texas native accused of manufacturing and trafficking narcotics and on death row, Kai Li of New York serving a 10-year sentence for allegedly spying for the FBI, and John Leung serving a life sentence convicted of espionage. costs.