Re: [OT] Biden pardons Hunter despite promise

shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:

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

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.

That's an absurd position to take. The pardon power is a power of the
president and is NOT dependent on rule of law. The president is
literally second-guessing criminal law. He stated that the prosecution
was political. No, it fucking was not.

Hunter wrote a memoir, a confessional, admitting to crime after crime
after crime, and I still don't understand how filing a false tax return
-- given that he hired accountants -- is a side effect of drug abuse.
Neither was selling access to his father, the vice president, so
oligarchs could get his ear.

He simply begged to be indicted.

Hunter is the most ungrateful son who ever lived.

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.

This is in the Kim Foxx vein, justifying the alternative prosecution deal
she made with Jussie Smollett, by pointing out that such deals are made
all the time for low-level felons. Well, no one in the history of my
state's law got an alternative prosecution deal with an 18-count
indictment.

The judge who rejected the plea deal was correct that there's no justice
in roling together tax crime and gun crime indictments as those were
entirey unrelated crimes,

Again: That wasn't political.

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