Hunter Biden is still required to answer questions from Congress, despite his pardon, and his answers could destroy the legacy of his father, President Joe Biden, Newsmax senior judicial analyst Andrew Napolitano said Tuesday.

“Here’s the downside for Joe, not for Hunter, for Joe,” Napolitano told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “When you are called to testify and you’re asked about something that is arguably criminal, you can say, ‘I respectfully decline to answer and assert my Fifth Amendment-protected right to remain silent.’ When you’ve accepted a pardon, you have no Fifth Amendment right.”

This means if Hunter Biden is called before a congressional committee and receives questions such as whether he wrote a check to his father and gave him “all of this money, which came from Burisma,” the younger Biden would not be able to decline to answer based on the Fifth Amendment.

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