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Russian President Vladimir Putin said during his Thursday news conference that he has “reservations” about a 30-day ceasefire proposal in the Ukraine war, saying it’s not clear how the situation would develop in the region of Kursk and elsewhere if a ceasefire was implemented. Putin lauded the US idea as “great and correct” and said Russia supports it in theory, but there are many things that still need to be discussed before a deal is agreed to. Putin went on to raise many questions about a potential ceasefire, including how it would be verified. He also said the ceasefire must...

Trust in the justice system has been “almost irreparably damaged by the Bidens,” Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said in reaction to President Joe Biden pardoning Hunter, his criminal son, for crimes spanning back to 2014. Johnson reminded Americans of the fact that Biden insisted time and time again that he would not pardon his son. “President Biden insisted many times he would never pardon his own son for his serious crimes. But last night he suddenly granted a ‘Full and Unconditional Pardon’ for any and all offenses that Hunter committed for more than a decade!” Johnson exclaimed.

If the Bidens want to escape legal accountability for their pay-for-play operation, Joe better be ready to pardon the whole family.. Joe Biden, who spent his vice presidency as the “big guy” behind his son Hunter’s foreign influence-peddling exploits and skated into the presidency because media and tech gatekeepers covered up news of the family pay-for-play business, issued a blanket pardon to Hunter for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” The pardon doesn’t just apply to the (comparatively)...

Even for the shameless Joe Scarborough, this was shameless. Today's top story is, incontrovertibly, Joe Biden's pardoning of his son Hunter, and Ol' Joe having repeatedly lied in promising not to do so. But on today's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough was unwilling to describe the pardon as even one of the two top stories of the day, saying instead that numbers one and two were Trump's nominations of Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth. [snip] Instead of leading with Biden's pardon and his lies about it, Scarborough buried the story 52 minutes deep into today's show. And even when he—finally— got...

Republican calls for the release of the ‘J-6 protesters’, a reference to supporters who stormed Congress in 2021 Donald Trump has said Joe Biden should now pardon those imprisoned for the Jan 6 Capital riots after he released his son from likely jail time. The outgoing president had repeatedly said he would not pardon Hunter, 54, who faced spending years in prison on felony firearms and tax charges, but did so on Sunday night. “Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice,” Mr Trump said of the decision on social media. The Republican called for the release of the “J-6 protesters”,...

After vowing for years that he would not pardon his son, Hunter, Joe Biden on Sunday signed a “full and unconditional pardon” for all offenses he “may have committed” between 2014 and 2024, claiming that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son.” For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket...

Hunter Biden’s pardon looks a lot like Richard Nixon’s. President Joe Biden’s grant of clemency on Sunday night — an extraordinary political act with extraordinary legal breadth — insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have committed over the past decade. Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974. “I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have...

President-elect Donald Trump hinted at mass pardons for defendants tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot – with his team vowing he would also overhaul the “Democrat-controlled” Department of Justice — a little more than an hour after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Sunday night. “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump posted on Truth Social. The 45th president, who won back the White House last month, floated pardons during his campaign for the more than 1,500 defendants...

Republicans accused President Biden of lying and corruption after the president's stunning Sunday night reversal to pardon his son Hunter – but the deeper cut came from a prominent member of his own party. Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, ripped Biden's lame duck decision and accused the chief of his party of putting 'family ahead of the country.' 'While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family ahead of the country,' Polis wrote. 'This is a bad precedent that could be abused...

President Trump responds to Hunter Biden's pardon via Truth Social. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113580801259196546 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!

Statement from President Joe Biden Home Briefing Room Statements and Releases Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of...

…. It is also notably that, after insisting that these cases were politically motivated, Biden also pardoned for ANY crimes that may have been committed " from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024... That is precisely the type of sweeping immunity grant that the federal judge balked at in the hearing when the earlier sweetheart deal feel apart. The judge asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen such a deal and he admitted that he had not...

End Wokeness @EndWokeness "No. No. It's a no. It will always be a no. Biden will not pardon his son Hunter." Guess what? THEY LIED.

President Joe Biden has granted a pardon Sunday to his son, Hunter Biden, sparing him from a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family members.The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after his convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on...

Joe Biden announced a presidential pardon for his troubled son Hunter on Sunday night, calling his prosecution 'selective' and 'unfair.' It goes against what Biden has said as recently is June, directly saying 'I will not pardon him.' 'From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,' Biden said in a statement. He claimed that people are 'almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.' 'It...

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has decided to issue a pardon for his son Hunter and is expected to announce it Sunday night, according to a senior White House official with direct knowledge of the decision. The decision marks a reversal for the president, who has repeatedly said he would not use his executive authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence. The pardon comes ahead of Hunter Biden’s Dec. 12 sentencing for his conviction on federal gun charges. Hunter Biden also is set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on Dec. 16, after pleading guilty in...

In a recent live television interview, 9NEWS anchor Kyle Clark put Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold in the hot seat over a scandalous leak of BIOS passwords linked to voting machines. The leak reportedly exposed sensitive data for voting system components across nearly all Colorado counties. The Colorado GOP’s affidavit claims that Griswold’s office inadvertently published a file containing over 600 BIOS passwords on the Secretary of State’s official website, leaving the sensitive information exposed to public access from August to October. Colorado’s election security protocols mandate strict confidentiality around such data, and the unencrypted public display of BIOS...

It is an old and venerable tradition Five weeks after officially becoming the Democrat party’s candidate for president, Kamala Harris still hasn’t held a press conference. In that span, she has only given one interview, a truncated, heavily scripted affair in which she leaned heavily upon her vice presidential candidate, Tim Walz. Only on Sunday did her campaign get around to posting some of her policy positions on her website.Democrat power brokers are clearly hoping that they can keep doing this all the way to the Oval Office, and why not? It is an old and venerable American political trick...

No one would accuse Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota of being flashy. He taught social studies for 20 years before trying politics. During six terms in Congress, he was regarded more as a workhorse than a showboat.Neither has Mr. Walz really been a household name outside of Minnesota — at least, not until this past week, when he made a flurry of cable news appearances pointedly pressing Kamala Harris’s case and dismissing Donald J. Trump’s agenda as divisive and extreme. And weird.“These guys are just weird,” Mr. Walz said on Saturday of the Republican ticket. He was talking to a...