Posted on 12/02/2024 2:47:44 PM PST by Rummyfan
President Biden’s pardoning of his son shatters the moral pretensions of the establishment.
And just like that, the virtuous come crashing back down to Earth. For months, US president Joe Biden said he would not pardon his son, Hunter. We the high-minded do not play such low games, he said. We respect juries. We respect the law of the land. Look how different we are to Donald Trump, how so much more morally spotless, cried the Dems’ acolytes in the legacy media. Where Trump handed out pardons like candy to his crooked associates, we the righteous few, the ‘adults in the room’, would never dream of exonerating bent friends at the expense of the integrity of the republic. We are better than that, they said. Over and over and over.
Yet now, lo, a pardon has been issued. Biden has gone back on his word. Juries, it seems, don’t count for much after all. The law of the land must play second fiddle to Hunter’s freedom. And the preening elites who held up their non-pardoning president as proof that they are a better moral breed than Trump and the plebs who vote for him now find themselves in the dirt with the rest of us. The magnitude of what Biden has done feels positively dizzying. In so spectacularly breaking his own promise, in spending his last few weeks in this decaying administration issuing emperor-like decrees of liberty to his own kin, he has shattered the moral pretensions of his presidency, his party and arguably his entire class.
The pardon is extraordinary. Hunter was due to be sentenced this month on his convictions for illegal gun possession and tax evasion. He was the first child of a serving president to be convicted of a crime...
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“Not true. Under the Former Presidents Act of 1997 only former presidents and their spouses get lifetime Secret Service protuction. Children only til age 16.”
Awesome! I did not know that. Thanks.
I think the pardon makes Joe safer too. It’s not just about Hunter.
Hey Joe, you’re more of a danger to democracy than anyone I know.
Sounds like Stevie needs a visit from Trump’s new Department of Thuggee...
And of the Demoncratic party ... and tell Hunter to remove our Flag off his jacket. He does not deserve to wear it.
Speech cannot be compelled.
I have no doubt that Biden, Jr. told dad “Either pardon me or I will turn state’s evidence on all of ya.”
Nothing could be further from the truth.
You try that with the judge.
In all honesty what the hell difference does it make if he answers the questions he is free and clear AND so will the rest of the family be pardoned there is NOT ONE DAMN THING we can do about it!! These bastards sold the country to the highest bidder, laundered OUR tax dollars into their own damn pockets and will simply ride off into the sunset FAT AND HAPPY!!! These UTTER SCUM slapped an impeachment on Trump the minute they THOUGHT he might be over the target because of a phone call!! Excuse me for saying this but wake me when when someone drops a nuke on DC THAT is the only damn thing that will make me breath a sigh of relief!! Republicans are complicit in this right up to their eyeballs……SPIT!!! All of those hearings and strongly worded letters WASTING more of our tax dollars, I have become just speechless and utterly disgusted!!!
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