Posted on 08/12/2023 6:46:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Vivek Ramaswamy left Republican voters scratching their heads after he said in an interview that he wants to evaluate giving pardons to members of the Biden family if he’s elected president.
That stood in contrast to recent calls by Ramaswamy for a special counsel to criminally investigate the Biden family for its business dealings and alleged influence peddling.
“After the I am leading the great revival. After we have shut down the FBI, after we have refurbished the Department of Justice, after we have systemically pardoned anyone who was a victim of a political motivated persecution — from Donald Trump and peaceful January 6 protests — then would I would be open to evaluating pardons for members of the Biden family in the interest of moving the nation forward,” the 38-year-old biotech millionaire told The Post.
“It is a broad theme of this candidacy, leading us to a national renewal rather than a national divorce. It’s part of a broader vision of an American revitalization,” he added.
Ramaswamy is obviously playing off the post-Nixon era, in which Nixon was preemptively pardoned over possible charges stemming from the Watergate scandal. Then-President Gerald Ford claimed he did so in order to stop furthering divisions within the country. I think there’s a big difference between the two situations, though.
For one, Watergate was mostly a joke of a scandal, especially by modern-day standards. That Nixon might have ended up prosecuted on process crimes is a fair bit different than what the Bidens are accused of.
For example, Hunter Biden was been credibly alleged to have trafficked women. Certainly, there’s ample reason to believe he violated FARA violations regarding his overseas dealings. Never mind the current charges Hunter Biden is facing from the DOJ, as rigged as that process feels at times.
As to Joe Biden, if he is implicated criminally, it would likely be for bribery. Would Ramaswamy be interested in pardoning a president who accepted bribes as vice president? Further, given Ramaswamy didn’t say only he’s open to pardoning Joe Biden, I can only assume he is actually talking about pardoning Hunter Biden and other family members (such as James Biden). Certainly, that’s the way the Post read it given the headline they ran with after interviewing him.
I’d caution Ramaswamy that going down that road would not unite the country and allow it to move forward, as he suggests. Instead, it would be seen as yet another in a long list of examples of Democrats not having to face justice for crimes Republicans are put in prison for. Hunter Biden deserves to go to prison. Other members of his family might deserve that fate as well, depending on where the evidence takes things. To give the Biden family a free pass would be catastrophic for trust in the government and the legal system.
So while I understand Ramaswamy is a very positive-thinking guy, if he’s going to evaluate anything, it should be re-evaluating this idea because it’s a bad one.
Those misleading headline articles should not be posted here .
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You know you’re breaking FR protocol doing that…
I’ve had enough fun here today.
Take care.
He thinks he is being noble. But he is subverting law and order in the worst possible way. A total liberal. Not that he would get the chance to pardon. That would already be done by Biden or Harris. And Sorry, but I would never vote for this guy as president. No better than Biden.
Hunter Biden’s a whoring crackhead.
His former business partner Devon Archer told lawmakers this week that Ukrainian natural gas firm Burisma Holdings brought the VP’s son onto its board as a “strongarm tactic,” so that “people would be intimidated to mess with them …... legally.”
Archer said that Hunter had a well-rehearsed act while at dinner w/ foreign clients, wherein Hunter would ceremoniously “call his dad in DC” to discuss “niceties and the weather”......not business.
Archer testified Hunter’s phone act was calculated....intended to show his foreign clients they had instant access to VP Biden to collect favors ....... once they paid him off.
The telephone act was also intended to give Joe Biden deniability....to let Joe Biden off the hook as a criminal accomplice to influence peddling, bribery and money laundering.
Such high expectations for a non-NBC.
Trump has endured six years of legal hell.
A mere six years in a cell for each Biden would be a comparative act of mercy.
If Joe wants mercy, he better give mercy, and fast.
he folded pretty early.
“Those misleading headline articles should not be posted here.”
Sensational headlines get noticed. Doesn’t matter if it’s the truth or not. Sometimes they have nothing to do with the article. Ha.
Ramadamadingdong
Only if he goes trans. Then he would be a “woman” of color.
I know I am. Have a nice night.
Dead in the water is good ol’ Vivek.
Joe could have taken out a legal notice ad in the Washington Post stating Hunter was not his agent or bag man and that Hunter should only be paid for honest work.
Unforced error“
It is, it’s like they are taking turns saying things to sabotage their campaigns.
Vivek has to learn that people don’t necessarily interpret what he says in the way he thinks they will. I get what he was trying to say, but he was trying to be too clever about it.
Nope. Just Soros.
Low IQ red necks clearly saw Hunter mentioned. You must not be one of them.
Ramaswamy said that he would shut down the FBI, reform the Justice Department and pardon "anyone who was a victim of a political motivated persecution — from Donald Trump and peaceful January 6 protests." Is that what Soros and Obozo want?
May Hindus never be given anything more than a tourist visa in this country. May someday all Hindu “citizens” of the United States be given a reason to leave.
I can’t find “Hunter” anywhere in what Vivek Ramaswamy said. My understanding after reading the article is that Vivek would Evaluate all case. That does not equate to guarantee pardon to everyone. The only pardons Vivek commits to is Trump & J6 people.
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