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President Biden's hypocrisy on full display: Pardons his own son after making a point about 'independent' justice"

In a move that's being hailed as a "full and unconditional" pardon, President Joe Biden has announced that he's granting his son Hunter Biden a free pass for all federal charges related to his time between 2014-2024. Just 50 days before leaving office, Biden had previously declared that he wouldn't be making the move, stating he'd abide by the jury's decision. But now, it seems he was just playing a different tune.

TL;DR

President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who was facing up to 25 years in prison for lying on a federal form about his drug addiction. This comes after months of saying he wouldn't make the move, and is being met with criticism from politicians and others who called him out on his earlier stance. A case of "my family is more important than I am" - how about keeping your promises for once?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Pardon all Trump prosecutors.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

If the republicans don’t like this, the democrats will happily support a supermajority legislature vote that starts limiting executive power.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

ITT: people who ignored the persecution Hunter has faced and are judging this on only an extremely shallow level

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[–] [email protected] 116 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Good decision. Trump and his gang promised all kinds of revenge. They don't play by the rules. So it makes sense to do whatever for your last son.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

Good decision. Trump and his gang promised all kinds of revenge. They don’t play by the rules. So it makes sense to do whatever for your last son.

I would hope those that oppose Trump do not just adopt all his behaviors.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Agreed. If Hunter Biden’s issues hadn’t been politically weaponized so much, I doubt Biden would have done it, but the truth is, with Trump coming in to office and threatening retaliation, it makes sense to pardon him.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I'm not an American, and as such I don't think it's my thing to speak on so do not take this as an instructive comment, but I will reflect on it anyway. I believe that this was, on balance, a bad decision even if I understand it and can find good, honest reasons for Biden to do it. In the end, the POTUS has this power and is free to use it as the president wishes. I hope it will lead to something positive.

The fact that Trump has said that he might pardon Hunter and now is complaining about the fact that Biden did it himself shows once again how everything said by Donald is a convenient temporary truth. Even if this puts the light on Biden also being problematic with this behavior.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a poison pill for pardons. Either they are essentially absolute and irreversible, or they aren't and all of the ones Trump made and will make are up for debate. He can grumble all he wants but for Trump to call this pardon "such an abuse and miscarriage of justice" is absolutely laughable given the decade of insanity and illegal stuff coming out of his orange anus. The toilet photo of all the documents should have been enough to jail this man for life in a black site but I guess justice is a miscarriage after all.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Justice is the one abortion of which they approve.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Hope he continues the trend. Id love a full send on dark brandon EOs

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think he's concerned Trumps DOJ is going to come after them. Still super shady. But that'd be my guess as to why he did it, beyond the whole, he's my kid thing.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

Should be illegal to pardon family members honestly. If there was ever an easy example of a conflict of interest, this is one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

You mean like how Trump is about to pardon himself?

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

You mean like Ivanka's father-in-law who Trump pardoned and named ambassador to France?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 3 weeks ago

For Biden, it was the most difficult decision of his presidency. For Trump, it was Tuesday.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Yep, absolutely. Presidential powers should be used for the good of the country, not the good of your friends and family. There are many legitimate reasons to pardon people but them being related to you is not one of them.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

A fair point but do you think Hunter would have been prosecuted to the same extent if he hadn't been related to Joe Biden?

However, it may work out better in the end for him that they went after him for ALL the crimes, because now he's pardoned for all of them and can't be tried for them again. We know Trump wants to go after Joe, but he'll have to come from a different direction.

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