Of course Joe pardons Hunter
And yet some people are surprised. Or are they pretending to be surprised? It’s the old fools/knaves puzzle.
There are so many fascinating aspects to this action of Biden’s, even though the thing itself was almost inevitable. If Joe Biden had merely pardoned Hunter, saying that it was because he’s his son, it wouldn’t be nearly so interesting although it would be a continuation of Joe’s enabling of Hunter. However, Joe used the ridiculous excuse that the pardon was issued because Hunter’s convictions represented selective prosecution – “ridiculous” because (1) actually authorities bent over backwards for quite some time to negotiate a sweetheart plea deal for Hunter instead, and it was only whistleblowers and the judge who made that impossible (2) the Biden administration has been selectively prosecuting its political opponents for years; and (3) Hunter actually is guilty of actual crimes (unlike the manufactured ones with which Trump was charged).
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.
Whether or not Joe actually wrote that is somewhat irrelevant at this point. I don’t think he’s so far gone, however, that he doesn’t understand it and approve it.
And the J6 defendants and Trump and Steve Bannon and General Flynn? No selective prosecution there, no sirree.
What makes this case extra-special is the fact that Joe spent a lot of time in the last year or so promising not to pardon Hunter. It was always pretty clear that Biden would be likely to pardon him if necessary; as I wrote here when speaking of the sentencing date:
Sentencing is scheduled for December 16. That seems to me to be well-timed. It takes the case out of the campaign season, and yet it places sentencing early enough that his father can pardon him if needed.
And that has played out with Joe pardoning Hunter before sentence can be pronounced.
Here’s a great clip that highlights the way the left is spinning this:
Of course – as Scott Jennings indicates – a “selective prosecution” argument can’t justify a blanket pardon. And the biggest issue is that Biden promised over and over not to do this. The woman in that clip shrugs it off by saying Biden changed his mind and didn’t actually lie, which is a difference that doesn’t make a difference. When a person promises something over and over – such as to be faithful to a spouse – and then cheats, was the original vow not a lie because he/she meant it at the time and just had a change of mind?
You also might want to stroll down memory lane:
SUPERCUT!
Corporate media: Obviously Biden would never pardon Hunter pic.twitter.com/gJRhASCAUs
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 2, 2024
In addition, this obviously sets Trump up for pardoning most or all of the J6 defendants. Not that his critics will approve, of course.
You’d have to be irretrievably stupid to believe Joe Biden’s statement, and at this point I have trouble believing that anyone with a functioning brain really does. It’s especially galling given the insane lawfare that’s been conducted against Trump and anyone associated with him for the past decade.
Ok…I’m so UNsurprised about this that I’m having trouble being “outraged.”
There’s no secret that since at least…oh let me say Nixon…we’ve had a two-tiered system. One for the left & another for the right & right-adjacent. That knob got turned up to 11 & torn off in the year of the Kenyan Light-bringer…
This is so UNshocking that I simply shrug & then pray harder against a violent blowback from those who’ve been truly persecuted maliciously & those who ARE truly outraged.
Joe might as well complete his disgrace by pardoning his brothers and the rest of the family and himself. I think he might do so, to avoid the corruption charges which could legitimately be brought.
The ridiculousness of mankind’s beloved Rule of Law is on full display for all to see.
The Rule of Law goes hand-in-hand Lawfare. Don’t believe humble me? Go ask the King then—or better yet, go ask some black Americans. Black Americans have been complaining about the injustice of the Rule of Law for a long long time.
Anyway, am seeing lot of articles about poor ol’ Joe Biden’s “legacy” being destroyed, damaged, etcetera – must be a fancy word for a statement like that…
Nothing more, nothing less than:
“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia…”
Ladies and gentlemen:
Presenting the Democratic Party of the United States of America!
Black Americans have been complaining about the injustice of the Rule of Law for a long long time.
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The complaint has been for 50-odd years that people of low status (police officers) are getting above themselves telling blacks what they can and cannot do.
and at this point I have trouble believing that anyone with a functioning brain really does.
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Just yesterday I noticed a partisan Democrat speaking as if Jean Carroll could be taken seriously (as 12 partisan Democrats on a Manhattan jury professed to believe).
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Over the last half-dozen years, I’ve waited for a partisan Democrat in my family, or on Fakebook, or on a board I follow to admit that Christine Blasey Ford was not to be taken seriously. The reason she was not was obvious enough: she and her handlers never produced any evidence that she had ever met the two men she accused nor did they delineate a set of circumstances where it was likely they would have met. I’m still waiting.
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Some of them do not have functioning brains. Others have nothing resembling a conception of justice more sophisticated than ‘I get what I want’. There are a few old school Democrats who object; that’s their pathway out of the Democratic Party.
Racist statementsStatements like that are exactly why a majority of black Americans avoid the Republican party like a plague and just stick with the Democratic party that only takes them for granted…Taking that woman’s explanation to it’s (il)logical end, should Biden issue a blanket pardon for Fauci? For the rest of his family? For Blinken? For the infamous gang of 51? If Trump is this treacherous and vindictive, who in the USA SHOULDN’T he pardon?
I might have given a pass on the gun charge. Maybe in the most magnanimous mood I’ve ever been in. But the tax evasion?
I wonder if Nancy Pelosi still thinks Biden’s likeness should still be on Mt Rushmore? Yes I know she was and is full of it but that was a ridiculous thing to say even for a politician.
It’s likely a promise of pardon for Hunter was part of Biden’s decision to step aside and endorse Kamala. He’s now looking to minimize the amount of exposure the Biden family corruption headed by “The Big Guy” will face when a new administration will have access to DOJ/FBI records (assuming they still exist).
The much bigger problem with this fully expected pardon is that it goes back to 2014, thereby making it very difficult if not impossible to arrest, try and convict any member of the entire Biden crime family of any crime, because Hunter was.
Ikely involved in all of their corruption.
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Trump was always going to pardon anyone he wanted to any time he pleased, regardless of what Biden did or didn’t do. At least Biden didn’t give Hunter an ambassadorship.