The Hunter Biden Pardon Has Stripped Bare the Democrats' Years-Long Preening About How They're the Party That "Respects the Rule of Law"

Mike Howell @MHowellTweets

There's a ton to be said on the Hunter pardon, but for now:

The real worrisome part about the undeniable fact that the First Family (not just Hunter!) was so flamboyantly corrupt was that the entirety of the government legal and intelligence apparatus worked overtime to let it go. And they did it for a very long time and turned themselves into pretzels to keep doing it again.

All while doing the exact opposite on contrived and sometimes legitimately insane plots against Trump and those who supported him.

Major systems level damage was done to the integrity of the whole system. So many will want to move on to the next thing but if not addressed, we are in a world of long term trouble.

The Bidens clearly belong in the history books as an asterisked blight, but the story is so much bigger than just them. When they exit it doesn't just get resolved naturally.

Scott Jennings: This drains every ounce of credibility from Biden's media surrogates.

SCOTT JENNINGS: Listen, you guys can spend all day long trying to spin this, that this is Donald Trump's fault, that this is somehow caused by Donald Trump.

"Oh, he's appointing the wrong people. Oh, he did it." This is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country. To sit for a year and say, "I will not do this. I will not do this. The rule of law is sacred. We have to respect the justice system, juries. We have to respect juries. We have to respect the guardrails and the norms of our democracy." These people are liars.

"Inflation is transitory. Afghanistan is a success. The border is secure. Robert Hur is a liar. The videos are cheap fakes. Biden has a cold. He'll never drop out. Oh, I'll never pardon Hunter." It's all a lie. It is all a grift. Every American except the most partisan brain-rotted people are going to be outraged by this today.

He is going to leave office--you think 38-39% job approval is bad? Just you wait. Just you wait. He's disgraced, disgraced today. Outrageous.

The Free Beacon:

When President Joe Biden and his White House aides repeatedly promised Biden wouldn't pardon his son, their allies in the media didn't push back--they ate it up.

MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissmann, for example, cited the pledge as proof that Biden was "living the rule of law ... in the most personal way" and taking "heroic action in terms of what it means to live a principle." Weissmann's colleague, Morning Joe co-anchor Willie Geist, said Biden's pledge "should not be extraordinary ... but in our times it is, and important."

On CNN, meanwhile, political commentator S.E. Cupp lauded Biden's "restraint."

"For Joe Biden to sit there and say, 'Well, I'm not going to intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son,' I argue that requires more restraint than if he were talking about himself," Cupp said during a June segment. "Which is what Trump does, right? He's talking about himself."

Biden went on to issue a pardon of his son Hunter for the crimes of illegally buying a gun and tax evasion--as well as any other crimes the recovering crackhead may or may not have committed between 2014 and 2024. The "full and unconditional pardon" is one of the most sweeping in U.S. history and makes Biden the first president to pardon his son. In a Sunday statement, the octogenarian said he did so because Hunter Biden was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

Weissmann is yet to react to the decision on both X, which he left last month, and Bluesky, the liberal copycat of Elon Musk's social media platform. Cupp did address the pardon in a Monday morning X post, blaming the move on Trump.

"It doesn't get sad enough, but Trump's enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters," she wrote.

This fat nobody continues humiliating herself for her CNN paycheck.

Meanwhile, the rest of the media continues humiliating itself. Whoopie Goldberg forbade a fellow View panelist from saying Biden "lied" about the pardon, insisting he had told the truth when he repeatedly vowed that he held the justice system sacred and would never pardon Hunter. He just changed his mind, Whoopie insisted.

Well, for one thing, it's still a broken promise. For another thing, he's clearly lying. The explanation he gave for Hunter's pardon tracked exactly with the claims Hunter's lawyer Abbie Lowell has been making for a year -- that the unprecedented plea deal rejected by a judge for containing a secret absolution for all crimes Hunter committed, not just those he was being charged for, was a perfectly routine and reasonable one and should be "honored," and was only repudiated because "partisans" got to the judge and pressured DOJ officials.

Biden heard this argument a thousand times before he pardoned Hunter. There is no new information or new argumentation here. He didn't change his mind -- he was just lying, to establish that only venal criminals like Trump believe that the DOJ is ever biased or criminal in its operations.

Nate Silver pretends to be shocked and stunned at the actions of the corrupt Joe Biden and corrupt Democrat Party.

Polling guru Nate Silver dragged President Biden through the mud after the commander-in-chief pardoned his son Hunter on Sunday night -- telling voters to abandon every Democrat who doesn't likewise criticize and reject the "selfish" move.

"A selfish and senile old man," the founder of the FiveThirtyEight polling aggregator wrote of Biden, 82, in a scathing series of criticisms on X minutes after the sweeping clemency announcement.

Silver -- who said he voted for Biden's successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election -- also told voters to boycott every Democrat who doesn't disagree with Biden's pardon over the next two days.

"Don't vote for any Democrat in 2028 who doesn't repudiate the pardon within 48 hours," the enraged polling Nostradamus wrote.

"I'm not saying this is going to be the decisive issue of 2026/28 etc. Probably second tier. But both the ethically *and politically* correct behavior is to call it out. Stop being so afraid of your own shadow," Silver added.

Paid Democrat Twinkfluencer Harry Sisson has never been prouder of A Father's Love:

Harry Sisson @harryjsisson

Such a well written statement by President Biden on pardoning Hunter:

"In trying to break Hunter, they ve tried to break me - and there's no reason to believe it will stop here."

"I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

Well, you'll be happy to know that Biden is plotting more and more pardons, including of his influence-peddling brother, his "business" associates, and Alejandro Mayorkas, who serially lied to Congress.

A Brother's Love.

A "Business" Partner's Love.

A Commander-in-Chief's Love.

Miranda Divine says that all conservatives knew Joe Biden was lying and would pardon Hunter -- why didn't the self-appointed "fact" checkers and assorted Experts of the media know?

We always knew Joe Biden would pardon his troubled son Hunter, no matter how many times he promised he wouldn't.

So it is fitting that one of the final acts of this mendacious president before leaving office was to break yet another promise to the American people.

Thus on Sunday night, the president issued a statement from the White House declaring that he had just signed a "Full and Unconditional Pardon" for Robert Hunter Biden, 54.

Joe claims that Hunter was "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently ... singled out only because he is my son."

In an amusing twist, the president explained away all his lies to the American people by lying about his lying: "For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth."

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Hours after Joe and Hunter dined at a Nantucket restaurant named, appropriately enough, the Brotherhood of Thieves, the Washington Post published excerpts Saturday from a document written by the first son's lawyers that made the emotional case for his pardon.

Since his father was the only person on the planet with the power to pardon Hunter, at least until his presidency ends on Jan. 20, the 52-page paper would seem to have been written for an audience of one -- the Oval Office guy vacationing with his family on Nantucket.

But why would Hunter and his lawyers feel the need to leak the heartstrings-tugging document when he was right there with his dad every day, hanging out in the borrowed mansion of private equity billionaire David Rubenstein, poking around in bookstores buying anti-Israeli books and watching the town Christmas tree lighting?

Clearly the document was a carefully crafted excuse created to help Joe fool the American people into believing that Hunter was a victim of political persecution, who suffered due to his father's power and influence.

If you read the excerpts of his lawyers' mournful missive, titled "The political prosecutions of Hunter Biden," you would see echoes in Joe's Sunday night statement. You would see that they hold grave fears for Hunter's future now that the dreaded Donald Trump is taking power.

"With the election now decided, the threat against Hunter is real," the lawyers wrote.

"There is no disputing that Trump has said his enemies list includes Hunter ... The prospect that Trump will turn his vengeance on the Special Counsel prosecutors if they fail to take a harder line against Hunter no doubt exerts considerable pressure on them."

Hunter's pricey lead lawyer, Abbe Lowell, described the opus in dramatic terms as "the complete and reprehensible history of the political persecution of Hunter Biden ... a seven-year saga propelled by an unrelenting political desire to use a son to hurt his father."

It is "a wild and terrifying story ... a stark warning of what is to come as some of the same Republicans who targeted Hunter prepare to resume power and have stated their intention to use the government's vast power to pursue their perceived enemies."

His thesis is laughable.

Hunter knowingly committed the crimes for which he has been pardoned and he did so in the arrogant belief that his father's power made him untouchable.

How right he was.

As I said, Abbie Lowell has pressed these arguments to Biden and the DOJ and every judge in the Hunter Biden case for years now.

But we're supposed to believe this is the first time Joe Biden heard them? And that his mind was suddenly changed by them?

Latrine Jean-Pissoir now admits that that the DOJ is politicized -- against the Bidens only.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre claimed Monday that President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden of tax and gun crimes because "war politics" prompted Hunter's prosecution -- while insisting the Justice Department is not broadly politically biased, as President-elect Donald Trump claims.

Jean-Pierre used the term "war politics" three times as she fielded fiery questions aboard Air Force One from journalists as Biden, 82, flew to Angola for an official visit hours after the pardon, which Biden said was necessary because his son was being "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted."

"Karine, when the president says that the justice system is infected with politics, how deep is the rot and how much of the blame does the president take on himself for the fact that his own Justice Department, his appointees, have allowed it to get this bad?" a reporter asked.

Jean-Pierre claimed that Biden "believes in the Justice Department."

"He just said it's infected with politics!" the journalist exclaimed.

"So how deep is the rot? How many selective prosecutions are there at the DOJ?" the journalist pressed.

"What I can speak to is this particular case, which is Hunter Biden, who has the last name of the president," she said. "There were political opponents who were very clear and very vocal about going after his son."

Below, Scott Jennings says that NBC "News" is reporting that Biden's advisors always "kept open" the possibility of a post-election pardon even as Biden was sent out to publicly deny that anything like that was even possible.

I can't find the article he's referencing -- it could just be Google, as usual, hiding results that hurt their beloved Marxist cause. If you know which article he's referencing, please let me know in the comments.

In case you missed it: Hunter spent the day celebrating his pardon.

posted by Ace at 03:37 PM

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