Biden Pardons Own Son Despite Repeatedly Saying He Wouldn’t

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As distant family member pardons go, Donald Trump had previously pardoned son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father (whom he has just appointed Ambassador to France) and Bill Clinton of course infamously set the original precedent back in 2001 by pardoning his half-brother Roger.

But this I believe sets a brand new precedent as no other President had previously attempted to pardon their own child. All that on top of the DOJ and the FBI already dragging their feet on more serious charges or corruption and bribery, thus allowing for statute of limitations to expire.

Not to mention legacy media and the previous Twitter management bending over backwards to kill any reports of Hunter Biden’s criminal conduct.

A CBS insider recently claimed the network had already verified the Hunter Biden laptop story when 60 Minutes’ Leslie Stahl infamously insisted to the contrary in her 2020 interview with Trump. The CBS staff were essentially told to shut it down. Nothing to see here.

And yet everyone knows the very same legacy media would be melting down and screaming into space while convulsing on the floor and projectile-vomiting foam if, hypothetically, Trump pardoned Don Jr. Which is what I assume Fox News will be doing today.

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President Biden pardons his son Hunter Biden

The decision, which was first reported by NBC News, is a reversal for the president, who repeatedly said he would not use his authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence.
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Angela Channing said:
How is trying to undermine a court's verdict that Trump raped a woman not defending him? Do you not trust the US justice system and if you don't, why do you think Biden should, especially after Trump has vowed to use it to go after his family?
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Neither should trust it. Both were political prosecutions which were, at the very least, selective.
 
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Well, I think Trump was innocent of some of the charges. Like when I saw his rape accuser's reaction in the media the day she won the first case.
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“Rachel, what do you want? A penthouse? It's yours, Rachel! Penthouse and France? You want France? You want to go fishing in France? No?”

Crass.

Now, of all the cases they brought against him, I personally found the one in New York the stupidest of all.

First the prosecutor in the case ran in 2018 on “getting Trump” without even knowing what she’d be getting him for.

Then, 5 years later — in the election year, what a coincidence — they twisted some obscure law to bring up charges for overestimating his properties on loans he’d already paid off. As if they actually gave a damn the banks didn’t earn enough millions.

Plus, don’t banks in the US have their own appraisers? Can I just walk into a bank a get a billion dollar loan on a tiny apartment in a cockroach infested walk-up on Sunset based on my own claim the apartment is worth that much?

Then the judge, who smirks for the cameras like a cartoonish mustache-twirling villain, makes a ridiculous claim Mar-a-Lago is worth just 18 million or something. As if Trump couldn’t get hundreds of millions if he put it on the market tomorrow.

Finally the ridiculous half a billion judgement and then the prosecutor going to the media to salivate — dripping with glee — how she always thinks on her way to work which Trump building she’ll put her paws on if he fails to pay.

The Democrats shot themselves in the foot by launching ALL of these prosecutions in the year before the election, following his official announcement. Which even in case they were all 100% legitimate, and they were not, gave out a strong whiff of political persecution, enough to repel some voters in the middle.

And by tossing everything on the wall to see which sticks including the stupid case I mentioned above, they came off as both nefarious and incompetent / desperate.

If one’s aim is to stop Trump you have to be more subtle, laser-focused and perfidious. This was idiotic amateur hour on the part of the Democrats (just like the 11th hour switch and Kamala’s entire disastrous billion-dollar campaign) and Trump only ended up using it to his advantage.

But that happens when you’re consumed with self-righteous ideology and buy into a black and white view “us pure as driven snow angels-them nasty and disgusting Nazis.”
 
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There's a difference between "unfairly targeted" and "selectively targeted." However, partisans believe political corruption is exclusive to one politician or political party.

Similarly, some people's faith in the judicial system is clearly based on their personal feelings towards the person on trial.

Victims of heinous crimes obviously deserve justice. However, it's silly to think that false allegations never happen, or that polarizing figures always get a fair trial.
 
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An article posed the question "Did Joe Biden pardon Hunter in order to protect himself?" The idea had occurred to me as well. Hunter Biden joined the board at Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014. The pardon Biden issued for his son covers an 11 year period, beginning on January 1, 2014. Republicans have frequently accused Biden of personally benefiting from and influencing his son's foreign business deals in Ukraine and China while he was vice president, which is quite probable.

As I said before, political corruption has never been exclusive to Trump.

Did Joe Biden pardon Hunter in order to protect himself?

The Telegraph – Questions have been asked about the unusually wide scope of the president’s decree

“No one is above the law”, posted President Biden on X on May 31, after a New York court convicted the once and future president Donald Trump on 34 misdemeanour business recordkeeping charges that were elevated to felonies on the basis of a vague legal theory.

Biden’s post has now been flagged by X with a “community notice” since, it would seem, Biden’s own son is “above the law”. On the Sunday evening of the Thanksgiving weekend, the incumbent president took advantage of the holiday slowdown to grant his son Hunter a blanket pardon, covering any crimes he committed or may have committed over a period of 11 years beginning on 1 January 2014. US presidential pardons, which only apply to federal crimes, are absolute and cannot be challenged or revoked.

No one is above the law.

— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) May 31, 2024

In 2023, Hunter Biden was indicted in two separate cases arising from federal income tax evasion and a federal firearms offence. Earlier this year, a federal court in Delaware found the president’s wayward son guilty of three felonies in the firearms case, which arose from his lying about drug use when filling a qualifying form to purchase a handgun – a form that President Biden had, ironically, championed as a gun control measure when he served as a senator in the 1990s. In September, Hunter entered a guilty plea in the tax case. Sentencing in both cases was scheduled for this month and could have imposed serious prison terms – up to 17 years in the tax case alone.

Throughout Hunter Biden’s legal ordeals, his father consistently stated that he would neither pardon his son nor commute any prison sentence. He also maintained that his son’s gun charge trial had been fair. Indeed, the federal special prosecutor in both cases was an appointee of Biden’s own Justice Department.

When President Biden abandoned his re-election bid in July, he soaked in endless praise for supposedly putting the country above his personal interests and seemed primed to leave his sole term as a celebrated patriot. But now, with less than two months left in office, his term mostly judged a failure, his vice-president’s bid to succeed him shattered, his party a dumpster fire, and no political future of his own, Biden can break his word and suffer little more than a few bad news days as Republicans – and even some Democrats – justifiably cry hypocrisy.

Some are asking whether Biden’s pardon of his rotten son, however, may have a larger motive than sparing Hunter the indignities of imprisonment. This lies in the pardon’s unusually long scope, which covers anything Hunter may have done over the past decade.

The timing may not be arbitrary. It was in 2014, after all, that Hunter joined the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm broadly suspected of corrupt practices, at the same time as President Biden was serving as vice-president under Barack Obama. It has been suggested that he was hired so that the company could benefit from his father’s influence.

During the campaign, Trump frequently promised criminal investigations into the Bidens by the Justice Department if he were elected. With the pardon in place, however, any such investigation would likely be limited. The question is surely unavoidable: Did Joe Biden pardon his son in part to protect himself?

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Angels Chanting said:
How is trying to undermine a court's verdict that Trump raped a woman not defending him? Do you not trust the US justice system and if you don't, why do you think Biden should, especially after Trump has vowed to use it to go after his family?
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Not to speak for Snarky, but for me, NO! Absolutely not! I don't trust the US Justice System or basically anything our government does. Because I'm a millennial and they've done nothing but lie my entire life. Saying I don't trust them is not an endorsement of Trump. It's just saying, when the opposition to Trump (himself a false anti-establishment figure) is just to hand over more power to the establishment, I'm not for that. It just emboldens that old South Park adage that all sides equally suck.
 
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Democrats must be really upset with John Fetterman right now after he said the cases against Hunter Biden and Trump were both "politically motivated":

John Fetterman says Hunter Biden, Trump both deserve pardons after 'politically motivated' trials​


Democratic Sen. John Fetterman said Thursday that the federal cases against President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden and the New York hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump were both “politically motivated” and deserving of pardons.

Biden issued a broad pardon for his son Hunter over the weekend. Trump was convicted by a New York state jury earlier this year on charges of falsifying business records related to payments to Stormy Daniels, an adult film performer, ahead of the 2016 election. Pardons in state cases like that one are handled at the stat level, not the presidential level.

Fetterman told a small group of reporters in the Capitol that the tax and gun cases against Hunter Biden were “politically motivated” and “weaponized for political gain,” comparing them to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump.

“The same thing was done with Trump with the New York case. And that was bulls--- too,” the Pennsylvania senator said. “And that was weaponized for political gain.”

“Now, collectively, I think it’s appropriate for both sides to receive a pardon,” Fetterman continued, adding that process “has degraded” the justice system in the eyes of the American people.

Fetterman didn’t directly answer when asked if he’s calling on Biden to pardon Trump.

“I’m saying that that we cannot allow our nation to become — our institutions to be weaponized against our political enemy or a political side,” he said. “It’s crazy.”

Fetterman compared it to a prosecutor in a red state trying to put former President Barack Obama “on trial for some simple, crazy kind of case.”

Fetterman is only one of a few Democratic senators to have publicly commented on Biden’s pardon for his son, following criticism from Sens. Michael Bennet and Gary Peters. Fetterman also said in an appearance on ABC’s “The View” Thursday that he does not think pardons should be issued for cases related to violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and he insisted only Trump’s New York case, where he was found guilty of 34 felony counts of fraud, was politically driven.

“I’m talking about the New York trial, and now the Democrats on our side, there were some that were gleeful calling, ‘Now he’s a convicted felon,’ and those things. And now for our party, we were talking about criminal justice, and we are now talking about second chances and now, all of a sudden, now you’re like, ‘Well, he’s a convicted felon and all these things,’” Fetterman said.

Fetterman echoed Biden’s sentiment that “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” which the president wrote in his official statement announcing Hunter Biden’s pardon on Sunday.

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Biden issues an Eisenhower-ian oopsie! "military industrial complex" farewell speech:

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Wow, he called out the military industrial complex, demanded the oligarchs pay their fair share of taxes, condemned Congressional stock trading, and called for Supreme Court term limits. Gee, if only this guy had been President for four years! It's a far cry from admitting to whoring himself out to his donors and being a huge war monger.

Biden's spent the end of his Presidency commuting the sentences of non-violent drug offenders and forgiving $4.5 billion of student loan debt, which is good. That said, his sudden heel turn makes me think this is just a middle finger to the neoliberals that forced him out. He went from sounding like the Clintons to sounding like Bernie Sanders. Biden served the oligarchy well during his 50-plus years in politics, so trying to hold them accountable now that his political career is over feels very strange.
 
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I think it's fairly obvious that he's only talking about Trump's millionaire friends. Is there a degree of hypocrisy there? Perhaps. Is Trump's flaunting of his behavior better? I leave that to you.
 
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Why would I prefer Trump flaunting his behavior? Biden and Trump are both tools of the oligarchy, but at least Trump's honest about who he serves.

Biden's entire speech was hypocritical, as he spent his entire career serving the oligarchy and the military industrial complex.

Biden's Presidency was a boon for the billionaire class that he's now bemoaning on the way out. According to Bloomberg, billionaires gained 1.5 trillion during his term.
 
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Biden ended his last day in office by issuing preemptive pardons for some of his shady pals, presumably because they're all critics of Trump.

Trump pardoned several of his pals (most notably Steve Bannon), so this isn't entirely unique. However, the preemptive nature of these particular pardons seems unusual.

Trump also didn't issue any pardons for his children, unlike Biden did (after saying he wouldn't.)

Source: Biden pardons Fauci, Cheney, others to shield from Trump inquiries

Biden issues pre-emptive pardons for members of his family in one of his final acts as president
 
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Frank Underwood said:
Biden ended his last day in office by issuing preemptive pardons for some of his shady pals, presumably because they're all critics of Trump.

Trump pardoned several of his pals (most notably Steve Bannon), so this isn't entirely unique. However, the preemptive nature of these particular pardons seems unusual.

Trump also didn't issue any pardons for his children, unlike Biden did (after saying he wouldn't.)

Source: Biden pardons Fauci, Cheney, others to shield from Trump inquiries
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Funnily enough, Trump usually winds up being far less vindictive than his reputation. Not so, Biden's Justice Department.
 
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