Re: [OT] Biden pardons Hunter despite promise

On Dec 2, 2024 at 9:03:03 AM PST, "moviePig" <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

On 12/1/2024 11:30 PM, shawn wrote:

 On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 23:23:03 -0500, Rhino
 <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
 

 Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter despite promising repeatedly to
 respect the rule of law.
 

 Pardoning  his son is part of what the rule of law allows. It makes
 sense for Biden to do so now as he's allowed the case to go on much
 longer than it should have as it's something that would never have
 gone on this long if he wasn't related to President Biden.
 

 
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/joe-biden-pardons-son-hunter-gun-tax-charges-1.7398369
 
 It wasn't a very narrow pardon either: it was a blanket pardon for
 anything Hunter Biden did over a 10 year period.

 
 Which is a smart move as it seems almost certain that there would have
 been people looking for anything to keep going after Hunter Biden even
 after Trump took over the Presidency. This way the desire to keep
 going after Hunter is going to go unsatisfied.
 

 He waited until late Sunday evening to announce the pardon, no doubt
 hoping that no one would notice. I wonder how the media will react? I
 wonder how Trump will react?

 
 Of course people were going to notice. You certainly did and there's
 no way the media is going to miss this topic. It's not a topic that
 will be forgotten in days.

 
The NYTimes's take was that Biden would get public sympathy had he
merely pardoned his son, but that his accusation of political
prosecution makes the Justice Department a bilateral target now.

Now all that's left is for Biden to resign early so that Kammie can officially
be the first female president in U.S. history, if only for a month or so.