Earlier, I wrote a piece from Axios saying that some Democrats felt that President Joe Biden's pardon of his son "sacrificed a moral high ground that's been foundational to the party's identity in the Trump era."
Moral high ground. Foundational to the party's identity. Are you kidding me? We all know about the 10 percent for the big guy. Biden had classified documents in his garage dating back to his days as a senator. He has a granddaughter that he refused to acknowledge, and when he finally did, the court settlement forbade her from ever using the Biden name. He's never met her.
As I reported the other night, by being pardoned, Hunter Biden has lost his legal right to plead the Fifth since he's in no danger of being prosecuted.
Thanks to his father’s pardon, Hunter Biden has waived his Fifth Amendment protections.
— Rep Andy Biggs (@RepAndyBiggsAZ) December 3, 2024
I look forward to bringing Hunter back in to @JudiciaryGOP—under oath—to get some real answers from him.
He can run from the truth, be he can’t hide forever. https://t.co/Xfn1qH71sK
The media really seems concerned about how Biden outright lying over and over about not pardoning his son makes him look like a liar. POLITICO has a piece saying that "Biden risks sullying his legacy to protect Hunter."
Adam Cancryn and Myah Ward write:
The pardon is likely to be one of the last and most personally consequential acts of a term where Biden found himself shadowed by a series of unflattering revelations tied to Hunter’s drug and alcohol abuse. And it amounts to a tragic bookend of sorts for a career that began with a similarly wrenching personal decision: whether to remain in politics after a car crash killed his first wife and daughter just weeks after Biden’s election to the Senate.
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Some allies privately believed he’d always relent and grant a pardon. But the calculation appeared to more definitively shift after the election, and as Hunter’s sentencing date approached. Trump’s victory raised the likelihood that Hunter would be subjected to years of additional investigations — a prospect that Biden concluded primarily aimed to “break” his son and disrupt his attempt at recovery. And with Biden set to exit politics in less than two months, the personal price of going back on his word would be far less than before.
“I think anyone who doesn’t understand why he would issue this pardon has never loved anyone who suffered from an addiction,” said Lisa Goodman, the founder of Equality Delaware, who has known the Biden family for decades. “He is a family man, through and through. And so I was not surprised that, in the big picture, that he would issue a pardon.”
Is anyone else here tired of hearing about Hunter's addiction? All of the illegal overseas shenanigans he perpetrated, selling his father's influence, can be excused because he was a crack addict? I'll be there are lots of crack addicts in prison.
We did a funny post earlier about what the engraving on a statue of Joe Biden should read. I really showed what kind of legacy Biden leaves behind. He was a horrible president, worse than Jimmy Carter, and did whatever he could to destroy the country. This myth that Biden has a legacy to be proud of is a joke. His legacy is that his administration sucked so bad that the people reelected Donald Trump.
We all knew that Biden was going to pardon his son. We just thought it would be on his last day in office. Why he chose to announce it over Thanksgiving weekend is a mystery. CNN's Jeff Zeleny suggested that Dr. Jill Biden had pressured her husband to do it.
CNN reports Biden was under mounting "pressure" from Jill, Ed.D., to grant Hunter a pardon pic.twitter.com/zYEwoGCd3F
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) December 2, 2024
That must have been some Thanksgiving dinner at the Biden place.
Listen to this garbage from Democrat Chair Jaime Harrison:
Joe Biden is a good & decent man. He is a public servant who has always strived and try to do what he believes is best for all.
— Jaime Harrison (@harrisonjaime) December 2, 2024
Joe Biden is also an amazing father.
Today, he did what was best… what was right… what was just.
Yeah, he's been an amazing father, and grandfather.
His legacy was a country on the verge of ruin, and pardoning his son is just the icing on the cake.
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