Posted on 12/06/2024 10:42:09 PM PST by John Semmens
This week, President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter "for any and all crimes he may have committed, including those not yet detected, between January 1 of 2014 and December 1 of 2024. None of these crimes were committed out of malice. As the son of a vice-president and president Hunter was under a lot of pressure to produce income to support the Biden family. He turned to drugs and prostitution to try to relieve his stress. He painted for relaxation only to discover that others would pay high sums for his work. He evaded taxes to increase the net return to the family. His motives were noble. He does not deserved to be hounded by those seeking revenge on his father."
"I know that earlier this year I said I wouldn't pardon him or any other member of my family," Biden admitted. "But that was when I was still a candidate. If folks had known that I would pardon Hunter I might have lost the election. After I was forced out of the election by my good friend House Speaker Nancy Pelosi I kept quiet about the pardon so as not to hurt the chances of my loyal Vice-President Kamala Harris winning the election. Now that the election is over and my time in office is near its end I make no apologies for using the absolute power granted to me as President of the United States to pardon anyone I please for whatever reason I please."
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) announced her support for the pardon, saying "I support the President. I have always supported the President. Never have I not supported the President."
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif) condemned Biden's pardon of Hunter, saying "the very fact that the President was on record assuring America that he wouldn't do it undermines the credibility of every Democrat who may aspire to the presidency. Say if I were to run in 2028, the worth of every promise I would make to voters would be put under a pall by this precedent."
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif) said "I admit that in 2018 I supported legislation that would force the president to turn over documents to Congress in the event he pardoned a member of his family, because I didn't want such pardons to be used to obstruct justice. Of course I was thinking of Trump at that time. The legislation didn't pass and Trump didn't pardon any family members. While I doubt that President Biden is trying to obstruct justice, his setting a precedent increases the risk that Trump will pardon a family member or maybe himself during his new term. So, in this respect, I wish President Biden had kept his promise not to pardon Hunter."
As if to validate Rep. Schiff's fears, President-Elect Donald Trump wants to know "if President Biden is ready to pardon the January 6 protesters--many of whom have been held in appalling conditions and received incredibly harsh sentences. Democrats have called them insurrectionists, but none of them brought guns into the Capitol. Most did nothing more than enter the building. Many were waved in by Capitol Police Officers. The few who fought with police have already spent more time behind bars than most of the George Floyd rioters who looted businesses and set fire to buildings in 2020 have. Will President Biden show them the mercy he granted to his own son? Or will that be left for me to handle once I take office?"
Apprised of the fact that Hunter's pardon immunity eliminates the need for his Fifth Amendment protection against self incrimination and makes him liable to be compelled to testify against others who may have participated in his crimes, President Biden is being advised to issue similar unconditional pardons to his brother James, other family members, Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, Adam Schiff, Christopher Wray, Mark Milley, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Kinzinger, Jack Smith, and others for the crimes they have committed. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said "we have about six weeks to compile our list of who needs a pardon. It's better to grant too many than too few pardons. We are also considering whether to include potential future crimes to give a more robust immunity from future witch hunts that a vengeful Trump may launch against Democrats who will continue to resist his tyranny."
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Semi satire where you can’t tell what’s real and what not because it’s all plausable in today’s whacked out world.
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