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Biden: making it easier and easier for Trump to announce huge number of pardons on day 1.
A disgraceful pardon: link here.
If Democrats want to understand one of the reasons the Republican Party is ascendant, they can look to President Biden’s pardon on Sunday for his son Hunter. In its rank mendacity, political hypocrisy, naked self-dealing and wretched example, it typifies so much of what so many Americans have come to detest about what the MAGA world calls “the swamp.”
Start with the mendacity. Last December, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, insisted, “I’ve been very clear: The president is not going to pardon his son.” The president reiterated the point in early June, when he told ABC’s David Muir that he would not pardon Hunter if his son was convicted, as he later was, of three felony charges related to his purchase of a gun while he was addicted to drugs. The younger Biden also faced separate criminal tax charges.
It was always a good bet that the president would break his word as soon as it was politically safe to do so. But he doubled down on dishonesty in his statement about the pardon, claiming Hunter’s prosecution was a result of “political pressure” on the judicial process. Nonsense. The charges stem from Hunter’s reckless lifestyle, abetted and financed by his willingness to trade shamelessly on the family name. A previous plea agreement between Hunter and federal prosecutors fell apart last year under scrutiny from a federal judge.
More obnoxious is the hypocrisy. Every year, federal prosecutors file hundreds of cases against persons charged with lying on the Firearms Transaction Record, or Form 4473, which is required from anyone buying a firearm from a licensed gun dealer. In 1993, then-Senator Biden made that form a key part of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. How is it that the same president who made both gun control and stricter tax enforcement key parts of his political message suddenly sees his own son’s transgressions as nuisance offenses?
Today: Biden to announce the largest pool of commutations / pardons ever in the history of the US
- 39 pardons
- 1,500 "non-violent" crimes: communtations
- how many of these folks had their charges reduced as a plea bargain to get them imprisoned in the first place;
- how many had history of violent crimes?
- Biden administration says this is simply the start of a process that is continuing and gaining momentum
- wow, he feels guilty that Hunter was the son of a president; what about thousands of others held imprisoned for the same crime -- tax evasion; lying on a form to obtain a gun
- one assumes it's the "guilt" he felt for pardoning his own son
- the good news: will make room for all the illegal, criminal elements that Trump / Homan will be rounding up
- let's hope that Biden continues to make more room; 1500 is a good start
- rumor: Trump to buy rights to "Monopoly Game" so he can put Biden's picture on "get out of jail free."
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