Re: [OT] Biden pardons Hunter despite promise

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

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 23:23:03 -0500, Rhino
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Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter despite promising repeatedly to
respect the rule of law.
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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
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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.