For a decade, reporters have happily called Donald Trump a liar. Biden just pardoned his son Hunter after repeatedly promising he would not. Yet even now the media protects him.
It’s a tough day to be a traditional Democrat. I have friends who are classic liberals. It will take some mental calisthenics to remain a Democrat after this shameless hypocrisy.
This is the second time this year that Biden has been blackmailed into doing something he initially didn't want to do: first the July 2024 coup, and now the pardon via threat of testimony from Hunter. Although he probably wanted to do the pardon, most parents would want to.
He would have been better off if he had just appealed to the public for their understanding about how heartbreaking it would be for him to see his only living son go to prison. He could have begged for sympathy, something at which he's good, instead of claiming his own DOJ had targeted Hunter. Whoever was advising him on his response to the pardon was dumber than he is. My guess is that was Dr. Jill and Hunter.
Biden did not pardon hunter on “gun and tax charges.” he granted him full and unconditional pardon for ALL crimes dating back through the beginning of 2014
Note that the pardon extending thru the Burisma cashflow years comes on the heels of Kash Patel’s nomination for head of FBI. They know the Bureau has the goods. They also know that Patel would use it since it’s criminal.
Damn. So good AB. Thanks for doing some actual journalism!
Many people say let bygones be bygones with the lawfare conducted against Trump. I disagree. The people in the DOJ and FBI can NOT be allowed to walk or just get a scolding. If they walk, then this pox on our nation will only guarantee the inevitable wielding of more outrageous ways the government can use power to punish political adversaries.
The Left needs to experience being on the receiving end to understand just how awful it is. IMO the use of legitimate lawfare is the only way to eliminate it. Make the process the penalty...and then maybe give them a "reduced" sentence after they're bankrupt and have been made a lesson of ffor posterity.
As Slim Shaddy says; I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in.
It goes............:
1. Joe, James, and Hunter Biden must all be convicted and then pardon them.
2. Merrick Garland. Convict him of treason and then send him to a deserted island.
3. Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James. All need to go to prison.
4. Matthew Graves, the lead January 6 prosecutor, and his deputies, need to be arrested and put on trial, and they need to be hit with a massive personal lawsuit that the US government refuses to defend them from
5. ANYONE involved with the Mar-a-Lago raid, from top to bottom, needs to be raked over the coals.
6. Any judge who went along with the government overreach in the 1/6 charade should be impeached and removed from office.
7. just for shits-and-giggles, make life hell for Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Eric Swalwell
I mean who are we as a people, if we don't have blind justice?
Let's let the truth out. We need to let the sun shine under the hood....it's the government after all.
If we don't you can both expect a repeat and retaliation.
And don't kid yourself the Republicans could do the same thing, at a different time, if we don't put safeguards in place to prevent this from ever happening again.
Absolutely. And anyone of the 51 sleazebags who signed the Russian disinformation letter and who still has a security clearance should have it revoked.
There is nothing surprising about this. The Biden family is corrupt. Joe Biden is a liar.
The remaining injustices are that Biden will collect a government pension and will receive the Lovely Parting Gifts including lifetime Secret Service protection, office staff, and the matching Samsonsite Luggage.
Senile Joe and his harpy wife will now slither off to Delaware.
If we are very lucky, we'll never hear from them again.
But then again, there's the future book deals with an obscene eight-figure advances.
Joe will not be collecting those perks for long, at his age and in his condition. Does Jill get to continue receiving them after Joe's time on this mortal soil expires?
"On Sunday night, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for gun- and tax-related felonies"
No. NO! He pardoned Hunter for anything and EVERYTHING he did - known and unknown - starting on January 1, 2014. It was NOT just "gun and tax" charges. It was a f'n blanket pardon for eleven YEARS of whatever Hunter did.
Why go back to 2014 and not 2020 or 2019 or 2018? Because the Burisma corruption started in 2014.
SO OBVIOUS. This pardon is not just about protecting Hunter from legal consequences related to his prior convictions but also about safeguarding him from investigations into his controversial business dealings, most notably his tenure on the board of Burisma.
In other words; protection from prosecution for the Biden family criminal enterprise.
Biden’s 11 year blanket pardon of Hunter is even more expansive than the pardon Ford gave to Nixon in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
So the Dsn Rather basically called Bush senior a liar the day before the election. Then we find out he made up his sources with W. (Subsequently he blames everyone else for catching him in a lie and disappears into irrelevance.)
I agree with the article, but the msm has really been hard on any conservatives and lite on liberals as far as I can remember.
Bill Clinton- i did mot inhale. Really? How did you smoke it then?
John Kerry- is a walking lie. But "i voted for it before I voted against it." And he's still a major lier.
Biden- i got oil cancer.fro my windshield.
I watched 2 gay men kiss with my dad on my way to school.
My brother was eaten by cannibals.
This from a guy who dropped out in 1988 for plagiarism.
This is not a defense of Trump. Just saying the msm has give a pass to democrats for years.
The good news is, MSM is going the way of the dinosaur; not exactly MAINstream anymore. While it's early, their demise is trending toward a much deserved status of irrelevance.
Joe just cement his position as the biggest scumbag to ever be President. He is the scummiest president ever he has been a liar from the very beginning of his political career. Hunter is such a crack head fool he is out there as we speak breaking some law. Love to see some DA with balls arrest him and charge him and convict him in. A place like ND so the MSM will never ever go there. And since it’s perfectly normal now to imprison your political opponents let’s take Jill Biden she is a crooked as old Joe. She signed their fraudulent tax returns let’s prosecute and threw her ass in Jail.
Remember Biden is the guy who called Trump a semi-fascist and an existential threat to our country, then after the election, invited him to the White House where they chatted amiably, with Joe smiling like a Cheshire cat. Biden also plans to attend the inauguration of the man Joe and his friends said was as bad - or worse - than Hitler. He's a liar to his very core.
The Islamic world has the concept of taqqiah in which it is OK to lie as long as one is communicating with a non-Moslem. Americans don't have a concept like that except that when Democrats lie--which is often--it seemingly goes unnoticed by the Cognoscenti but when Republicans engage in mendacity, it is broadcast throughout the known world even if what is claimed to be a falsehood may not in fact be so. Perhaps the Democrats get away with it because no one is checking to see if their fingers are crossed behind their backs.
The most galling thing about the pardon isn't just throwing out the recent convictions and pleas. It's that it's an 11-year blanket amnesty.
The silver lining is that now Hunter can't take the 5th if the next Congress has the guts to bring him in.
It’s a tough day to be a traditional Democrat. I have friends who are classic liberals. It will take some mental calisthenics to remain a Democrat after this shameless hypocrisy.
This is the second time this year that Biden has been blackmailed into doing something he initially didn't want to do: first the July 2024 coup, and now the pardon via threat of testimony from Hunter. Although he probably wanted to do the pardon, most parents would want to.
He would have been better off if he had just appealed to the public for their understanding about how heartbreaking it would be for him to see his only living son go to prison. He could have begged for sympathy, something at which he's good, instead of claiming his own DOJ had targeted Hunter. Whoever was advising him on his response to the pardon was dumber than he is. My guess is that was Dr. Jill and Hunter.
The President gave "his word as a Biden." Which means he was lying.
Biden did not pardon hunter on “gun and tax charges.” he granted him full and unconditional pardon for ALL crimes dating back through the beginning of 2014
Joe pardoned Joe
I agree. Joe was thinking of himself as usual. This will distract from whether Joe knew about Hunter's "business" dealings with Ukraine and China.
Of course that's why the pardon went all the way back to 2014.
More of a sweeping blanket pardon than Ford gave Nixon
Think about that!
Lee Fang just dod some good coverage of this.
As did El gato malo and C&C news. Better than this post.
@Ryan- That's a BINGO!
lol
IF there are any crimes dating back to that time that he has not been convicted of YET, those will not be included.
Note that the pardon extending thru the Burisma cashflow years comes on the heels of Kash Patel’s nomination for head of FBI. They know the Bureau has the goods. They also know that Patel would use it since it’s criminal.
Exactly. If I were the cynical type, I might think 'The Big Guy' might have been indulging in a little personal CYA as well.
Damn. So good AB. Thanks for doing some actual journalism!
Many people say let bygones be bygones with the lawfare conducted against Trump. I disagree. The people in the DOJ and FBI can NOT be allowed to walk or just get a scolding. If they walk, then this pox on our nation will only guarantee the inevitable wielding of more outrageous ways the government can use power to punish political adversaries.
The Left needs to experience being on the receiving end to understand just how awful it is. IMO the use of legitimate lawfare is the only way to eliminate it. Make the process the penalty...and then maybe give them a "reduced" sentence after they're bankrupt and have been made a lesson of ffor posterity.
As Slim Shaddy says; I got a list, here's the order of my list that it's in.
It goes............:
1. Joe, James, and Hunter Biden must all be convicted and then pardon them.
2. Merrick Garland. Convict him of treason and then send him to a deserted island.
3. Jack Smith, Fani Willis, Alvin Bragg, and Letitia James. All need to go to prison.
4. Matthew Graves, the lead January 6 prosecutor, and his deputies, need to be arrested and put on trial, and they need to be hit with a massive personal lawsuit that the US government refuses to defend them from
5. ANYONE involved with the Mar-a-Lago raid, from top to bottom, needs to be raked over the coals.
6. Any judge who went along with the government overreach in the 1/6 charade should be impeached and removed from office.
7. just for shits-and-giggles, make life hell for Adam Schiff, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and Eric Swalwell
I mean who are we as a people, if we don't have blind justice?
Let's let the truth out. We need to let the sun shine under the hood....it's the government after all.
If we don't you can both expect a repeat and retaliation.
And don't kid yourself the Republicans could do the same thing, at a different time, if we don't put safeguards in place to prevent this from ever happening again.
I'd add Brennan and Clapper if the statute of limitations hadn't tolled. Perhaps they need to bring them in again.
We could just feed them to hungry lions with all the c19 perpetrators...
Absolutely. And anyone of the 51 sleazebags who signed the Russian disinformation letter and who still has a security clearance should have it revoked.
@Ryan- #3: and disbarred.
8. Pardon all J6ers.
There is nothing surprising about this. The Biden family is corrupt. Joe Biden is a liar.
The remaining injustices are that Biden will collect a government pension and will receive the Lovely Parting Gifts including lifetime Secret Service protection, office staff, and the matching Samsonsite Luggage.
Senile Joe and his harpy wife will now slither off to Delaware.
If we are very lucky, we'll never hear from them again.
But then again, there's the future book deals with an obscene eight-figure advances.
These people are nauseating.
Joe will not be collecting those perks for long, at his age and in his condition. Does Jill get to continue receiving them after Joe's time on this mortal soil expires?
I think she gets all the goodies even when she's the Happy Widow.
Oh. One more thing. I think the taxpayers are on the hook for Senile Joe's Funeral Extravaganza.
You just know that they are going to be packing some "goodies" on their way out of the White House, a la the way The Clinton's did back in 2000.
"On Sunday night, Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for gun- and tax-related felonies"
No. NO! He pardoned Hunter for anything and EVERYTHING he did - known and unknown - starting on January 1, 2014. It was NOT just "gun and tax" charges. It was a f'n blanket pardon for eleven YEARS of whatever Hunter did.
Why go back to 2014 and not 2020 or 2019 or 2018? Because the Burisma corruption started in 2014.
How many guilty pleas have been pardoned previously? I’ll bet not many.
The Biden family corruption knows no bounds, and the media enablers encourage more.
With a title like that, this piece must be read immediately. Go, Alex, go.
You nailed it, Kurt!
SO OBVIOUS. This pardon is not just about protecting Hunter from legal consequences related to his prior convictions but also about safeguarding him from investigations into his controversial business dealings, most notably his tenure on the board of Burisma.
In other words; protection from prosecution for the Biden family criminal enterprise.
Biden’s 11 year blanket pardon of Hunter is even more expansive than the pardon Ford gave to Nixon in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal.
Think about that!
Joe didn't pardon Hunter; Joe pardoned himself.
You missed KEY point. All felonies or potential crimes commencing January 2014!!! So why 10 years back?
We officially live in a Banana Republic.
You may have missed the most important part of the pardon. Why does it go back to 2014 and involve Ukraine bio labs?
If you are going to tell Alex, please do tell all.
Omitting information is the same as lying too.
I mean what could possibly go wrong in a banana republic with a virtual limitless nuclear arsenal?!...;)
So the Dsn Rather basically called Bush senior a liar the day before the election. Then we find out he made up his sources with W. (Subsequently he blames everyone else for catching him in a lie and disappears into irrelevance.)
I agree with the article, but the msm has really been hard on any conservatives and lite on liberals as far as I can remember.
Bill Clinton- i did mot inhale. Really? How did you smoke it then?
John Kerry- is a walking lie. But "i voted for it before I voted against it." And he's still a major lier.
Biden- i got oil cancer.fro my windshield.
I watched 2 gay men kiss with my dad on my way to school.
My brother was eaten by cannibals.
This from a guy who dropped out in 1988 for plagiarism.
This is not a defense of Trump. Just saying the msm has give a pass to democrats for years.
The good news is, MSM is going the way of the dinosaur; not exactly MAINstream anymore. While it's early, their demise is trending toward a much deserved status of irrelevance.
Joe just cement his position as the biggest scumbag to ever be President. He is the scummiest president ever he has been a liar from the very beginning of his political career. Hunter is such a crack head fool he is out there as we speak breaking some law. Love to see some DA with balls arrest him and charge him and convict him in. A place like ND so the MSM will never ever go there. And since it’s perfectly normal now to imprison your political opponents let’s take Jill Biden she is a crooked as old Joe. She signed their fraudulent tax returns let’s prosecute and threw her ass in Jail.
And everyone knew he was lying when he said it. This just confirms it, and Biden has been lying for YEARS.
Remember Biden is the guy who called Trump a semi-fascist and an existential threat to our country, then after the election, invited him to the White House where they chatted amiably, with Joe smiling like a Cheshire cat. Biden also plans to attend the inauguration of the man Joe and his friends said was as bad - or worse - than Hitler. He's a liar to his very core.
The Islamic world has the concept of taqqiah in which it is OK to lie as long as one is communicating with a non-Moslem. Americans don't have a concept like that except that when Democrats lie--which is often--it seemingly goes unnoticed by the Cognoscenti but when Republicans engage in mendacity, it is broadcast throughout the known world even if what is claimed to be a falsehood may not in fact be so. Perhaps the Democrats get away with it because no one is checking to see if their fingers are crossed behind their backs.
What else is new?!! And the MSM acting "disgusted" is just another head fake.