As my readers are doubtless aware, yesterday President Biden pardoned his son Hunter for any and all offenses against US law from 2014 until 2024. In case you were wondering about the ten-year period, that's when Ukraine became the focus of US money-laundering and jiggey-pokery by our politicians. Effectively, Hunter Biden was the bagman for certain corrupt US interests (some would call it the Biden crime family) during the whole of that period.
The pardon comes after President Biden repeatedly promised he would not pardon his son for his crimes. There again, promises seldom (if ever) mean anything to crooked politicians, so we need not be surprised that the President broke them yet again.
I'm curious about the timing of the pardon. I'd expected it, but figured it would more likely come as President Biden's term of office ended in January 2025, a last-minute "up yours!" to his political opponents and the American people. I suppose it was brought forward to forestall a guilty verdict in the charges Hunter Biden was facing over tax evasion and other crimes. The message conveyed by the pardon to the American electorate is, of course, the same.
I doubt we'll ever see President Biden and/or his family called to account for their crimes and misdemeanors while in office. However, there are many politicians who "made hay while the sun shone", taking advantage of his protection to enrich themselves and get away with all sorts of shenanigans. One hopes the incoming Trump administration will shine a light into the dark corners of American politics, uncovering those machinations and holding the guilty accountable. That may be a pipe-dream - politicians tend to cover for each other, even their opponents, because so many of them are guilty of the same crimes - but we may hope.
Peter
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Not surprising. Just more evidence, as if we needed any more, of the double standards in our country.
And these politicians are not the “ruling elites” or the “ruling class” they are just thieving, lying, treasonous, pedophile, bottom feeding scumbags with marxist/satanic leanings.
Jim from down the bayou
I thought a pardon had to list the specific crimes he is being pardoned for to be legitimate, but it looks like thats not legally true just part of a discussion.
Exile1981
I wish people would stop calling them "politicians"; the greatest majority of them are failed lawyers.
The only time this would have mattered would have been BEFORE the election. If done then it might have messed up some house/senate runs and lengthened Trumps coat tails. I'm kind of surprised it didn't happen as soon as Vice President Harris (grudgingly) conceded the race. Maybe you'd have gotten a couple faithless electors without this but the magnitude of the 312 electoral vote win means one or two faithless electors are pointless. Nope this is old angry Joe poking a stick in the eye of those that made him give up the presidential run. He is a truly nasty piece of work.
I don't believe Trump should pursue chanrges against President Biden - first because the man has the mental acuity of a potato, and is not competent to stand trial, and second because it was wrong when the Biden admin went after Trump, and two wrongs don't make a right. I do not want to live in a country when the first thing the incoming president does is target the previous administration for whatever charges - legit or trumped up - he can come up with.
That said, there is a Vice President and Cabinet who are wholly complicit in hiding the extent of Biden's dementia, and multiple government agencies who are about to learn the consequences of targeting Americans illegally.
I'd rather see Biden (and Obama) totter off into ignominy while the Trump Coalition gets to work cleaning out the Swamp. That's a more important task.
As soon as he is out of office it is time to go after Joe
I believe the timing of the pardon coming now rather than later had to do with some Hunter related court hearings or sentencing before the end of the year.
The timing confuses me as well. The best guess I've seen is they did this because Joe's health is failing, and it needed done sooner rather than later.
Another guess is that he could be impeached over this, Kamala gets her presidency, and she can then pardon him and the rest of the family. That avoids the questionable event of Joe pardoning himself. She'd have nothing to lose; she'll never be elected president.
Him, or Hillary. We need to intitute some vigilante shit for those assholes.
So, pardon trading is off the table. But, it's been suggested that Hunter's 5th Amendment protections are now moot.
Could it be that the timing was now because he fears he will be forced out before the actual end of his term, maybe so we can have our first female/black/whatever president, and he might not get the chance?
Opens the door for Trump to do something for the Jan 6 folks...
Next up for blanket pardon: Jim Biden. If they can't get Hunter or Jim, they can't lay a finger on Joe.
I believe the primary fact in the timing is the impending sentencing hearings on the firearms charges….but do not discount the nomination of Kash Patel for FBI director as having sent a message that it was no longer business as usual
I believe that the sentencing is sceduled for 4 Dec. If Hunter is pardoned after that date, it goes on his record; if prior, it does not.
Honestly, we don't have enough time (or the grounds) to impeach Biden over this. They can try to 25th Biden, but that does not make Kamala President - she's just Acting President until Joe is removed by resigning, impeachment and conviction, or death.
@boron, a pardon wipes all records of any convictions.
Clemency would have left the conviction on the record, but eliminated the punishment.
The only thing driving the timing that I see is that the family just spent a week together and wanted the results official before anyone had a chance to 'confuse' poor old Joe and scuttle the deal.
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