Democratic anger about Biden pardon is all about Trump By Byron York

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Democratic anger about Biden pardon is all about Trump
By
Byron York
December 2, 2024 10:49 am
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DEMOCRATIC ANGER ABOUT BIDEN PARDON IS ALL ABOUT TRUMP. You will probably agree that President Joe Biden‘s issuance of a broad pardon to his son Hunter Biden is the world’s least surprising news. Many have predicted for quite a while that, whatever the president said about pardoning his son — he vowed he would never do it — Biden would, in the end, pardon his son. And on the Sunday night after Thanksgiving, he did it.

Republicans, of course, slammed Biden for lying. “Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence-peddling activities,” said Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the leading Biden investigator in the House. “The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people. It’s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid responsibility.”

That’s pretty representative of the Republican view that Hunter Biden’s shady influence peddling in Ukraine, China, Russia, and elsewhere was done for the purpose of enriching not only himself but his father and the rest of his family. Indeed, according to documents discovered on the notorious laptop, Hunter Biden sometimes complained about having to share his ill-gotten gains with his father, also known as “the big guy.” There’s no doubt that Biden has, for years, falsely denied knowledge of and involvement in his son’s business activities. So now, the pardon is just one more step for a president who “has lied from start to finish,” in Comer’s words. Indeed, while the pardon applies to Hunter Biden, it might also protect Joe Biden from further damaging revelations.

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[DefiantMassRINO]

That was mighty white of Biden.

Got entitled limousine liberal white privilege?

[Smokin Joe]

Well, now that Hunter can't hide behind the 5th Amendment, subpoena his arse and peel the lid back.

[PeteS in CA]

Other Democrats criticized the pardon by arguing that it gave away the moral high ground that they believe Joe Biden and the anti-Trump resistance occupied. They have predicted that in his next term, Trump will abuse the pardon power. They are primed and ready to attack him for it. But how can they accuse Trump when Biden abused his own power? Joe Biden has just made life much more difficult for the anti-Trump resistance.

“Now he’s taken one more issue off the table from his fellow Democrats, many of whom were hoping to torch the Republicans for their support of Trump’s pardons,” the Atlantic’s Tom Nichols wrote. Also in the Atlantic, Jonathan Chait wrote that “principles become much harder to defend when their most famous defenders have compromised them flagrantly.” And the Bulwark’s Charlie Sykes posted, “Smart person texts me: ‘Joe Biden has just removed the issue of pardons from the political arena for the next four years and Trump probably once again can’t believe his own dumb f***ing luck’ … Sadly, I think he’s right.”

Republicans are pouncing and Joe ruined a Gotcha-Trump. Poor Dem-babies and TDS-babies, .

[The_Reader_David]

Republicans are pouncing

Oh! No! Not pouncing Republicans!  (Can we trace that stupid phrase?  What nitwit in the regime media came up with "Republicans pounce on..." as a distraction from news that discomfits the 'Rats?)