By Michael Woyton
Yes, President Joe Biden said he wasn’t going to pardon his son. Yes, Biden pardoned his son.
Those are facts, but the hypocrisy on the right and the left about the pardon are anything but based on facts.
No, the president didn’t pardon his son for anything Ukraine-related.
And no, this will not embolden Donald Trump.
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The convicted felon and adjudicated rapist was gunning for Hunter Biden. Trump and his MAGA followers wildly exploited and exaggerated what the younger Biden was accused of and made up complicity of Biden the Elder — calling all of it “the Biden crime family.”
Trump has done nothing but promise revenge on his political enemies — and at the top of the list were the Bidens.
Again, the former and soon-once-again-to-be president doesn’t need anyone helping him do horrible things to people he sees as threats. Trump is already in that head space.
Had Hunter not been pardoned by his father I think it would have been a blood sport for Trump, who would have taken every opportunity to torture Hunter even more just to make Joe suffer even more.
President Biden, in his statement about the pardon Sunday, said it was clear that his son was being treated differently from others.
“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,” President Biden said.
He continued by saying there was a concerted effort to break someone who was sober for five and a half years with unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution.
“In trying to break Hunter,” Biden said, “they’ve tried to break me — and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
For his part, Hunter Biden made a statement saying he’s admitted and taken responsibility for his mistakes, “mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport.”
For the record, Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 140 people at the end of his first stint in the White House.
The pardons and commutations included such upstanding citizens as Steve Bannon, Elliott Broidy, Lil Wayne, Albert J. Pirro Jr., Paul Erickson, Paul Manafort and Roger J. Stone Jr. Google them — I don’t want to spend any more time thinking about those people.
And also for the record, Trump has promised to pardon his supporters convicted of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.
That would be a real slap in the face of Democracy.
Hunter Biden’s pardon? Not at all.
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Let’s not forget Charles Kushner, convicted felon, who also pled guilty to hiring a prostitute to seduce his sister’s husband so she wouldn’t testify at Charles’ trial.
Biden is only motive is that he loves his son.
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Thanks, Joyce. There were way too many to mention!
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