President Biden’s decision to pardon his own son of the federal gun charges he was recently convicted of as elicited some staunch reactions among lawmakers in Washington.

Rep. Rudy Yakym (R-IN-2nd) sent out a bevy of posts on X after the news broke on Sunday.

“Today’s pardon shows that every single baseless charge and cliche the Left uttered against President Trump – from ‘no one is above the law’ to ‘Trump is a threat to judicial independence’ was a lie and a distraction from their failed record on open borders and the economy,” Yakym said.

At the end of May President Biden sent out a simple post on X that read “no one is above the law” referring to the indictments being handed down against then former President Trump.

“In short, Joe Biden lied – like he always has – and this is just the sad, predictable, and fitting end to the failures of the past four years,” Yakym continued.

Senator-elect Jim Banks, still Indiana’s 3rd district representative in the U.S. House, was more subtle with his reaction on social media. Banks quoted the post from Biden mention above, and said “Hunter Biden: Higher than the law.”

President Biden issued a statement once the decision to pardon his son was made public.

“Here’s the truth: 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 – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”

Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced for the federal firearms charges he was convicted of on December 12th. Biden admitted to “illegally owning a gun while a drug user”. He originally entered a plea deal in the case, but that plea was rejected by the judge overseeing the case.