He couldn’t be serious with this statement. It’s a shameful explanation, an exercise in gaslighting, and a wad of phlegm spit simultaneously in the face of voters. It’s a ‘hawk tuah’ moment that is beyond comprehension. The pardon of Hunter Biden has self-immolated liberal America in more ways than one. For starters, it shows what happens when you try to take the moral high ground and exude a snobbish attitude as such: you become Icarus, soaring too close to the sun.
If Biden didn't want Hunter to do jail time for the tax & gun convictions, he could just have commuted his sentences.
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) December 2, 2024
He went further for a 10-year immunity bath because there's more to hide.
“I’m pardoning my son because he was targeted as the son of the president. And also the pardon is retroactive to seven years before I took office.” https://t.co/e23w5u1iqp
— Joel Engel (@joelengel) December 2, 2024
It's bad that the president pardoned his son when he and his staff have said repeatedly and in no uncertain terms that this wouldn’t be an option. To issue an explainer is just another way to insult the voters’ intelligence, a move that partially cost Democrats the 2024 election. Tens of millions were struggling, and when they voiced those concerns, they were mocked and dismissed by Joe Biden, the Democrats, and the media, who all adopted a ‘look at this chart; you’re wrong’ response. It’s no different here:
I mean the gaslighting and dishonesty here. Hunter was nearly let completely off the hook with an unheard of plea deal. Whistleblowers (who Congressional investigators simply gave a platform under oath) and a judge who was paying attention noticed the special treatment and that’s… pic.twitter.com/pRbtXurphg
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) December 2, 2024
They impeached Trump because the Bidens never did anything wrong and how dare anyone even ask about it
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) December 2, 2024
Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.
The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.
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.
For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. 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.
I will follow the law until that chaos engulfs my family through their own fault. In other words, rules for thee but not for me. This act is Clinton-esque regarding abiding by a separate set of rules. To that end, it paves the way for President-elect Donald J. Trump to pardon himself, every January 6 defendant, and host of other people, thanks to Biden.
Remember, nobody is above the law. 🤪🤣pic.twitter.com/3jLpTFhh2v
— MAZE (@mazemoore) December 2, 2024
So, while this chapter of the Biden legal saga reaches an ignominious end, let’s declare that we’ve known for years: Hunter Biden is a criminal and a disgrace and was guilty of all charges lobbed against him.
This is an editor at the Washington Post https://t.co/hHBvUjXeKw
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) December 2, 2024
"It's transitory inflation."
— Tony Kinnett (@TheTonus) December 2, 2024
"Afghanistan was a success."
"The border is secure."
"Robert Hur lied. Biden is fine."
"Those videos are cheapfakes."
"Biden had jetlag."
"Biden had a cold."
"Biden isn't going to be replaced."
"Biden isn't going to pardon Hunter." pic.twitter.com/NOrytmi6aa
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