There is no other way to say it: Joe Biden lied. Again and again.
After repeatedly pledging, pledging, and vowing not to forgive his son Hunter, the president of the United States did just that.
The move amounted to a devastating vote of no confidence in his own Department of Justice, which coincides with Donald Trump’s own complaints about that same department.
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Trump, who also pardoned several political allies during his first term, reacted quickly on Truth Social:
“Does Joe’s pardon for Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have been imprisoned for years? What an abuse and miscarriage of justice!”
And prominent Republicans are calling Biden a liar, with ample justification.
Both President Biden and President-elect Trump criticized the Justice Department following the former’s pardon of his son Hunter, although for markedly different reasons. (Reuters/Getty/AP Images)
I think most people assumed that a father wouldn’t let his son go to jail. And if the president had explained it in those terms, he might have garnered some public sympathy. But he didn’t do it.
Do you know that the president often talks about “my word as Biden”? I mistakenly assumed he wouldn’t promise over and over again not to forgive his son or commute his sentence if he’d thought there was any chance of getting Hunter off the legal hook.
But what is anyone going to do? He leaves office next month, his political career is over and the story will fade quickly.
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Biden sounded a lot like Trump when he accused the Justice Department, which he had long defended, of treating his son unfairly, widening the political door for the president-elect to retaliate against the Justice Department, in part by naming his old confidant Kash Patel as a candidate. the fbi.
Biden said his son had been “selectively and unfairly prosecuted” and blamed political pressure on the special counsel named in the case.
“No reasonable person looking at the facts of the Hunter cases can come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out just because he is my son, and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break down Hunter, who has a mark of 5-1/2 years sober, even in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecution In trying to break Hunter, they have tried to break me, and there is no reason to believe it will stop here.
Many were wrong to assume that the president would not forgive his son; However, a little less than two months into his term and, presumably, his political career, Biden really has nothing to lose by doing so. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)
But that reinforces Trump’s argument that he, too, was singled out for selective prosecution by the Justice Department and will be in a position to do something about it.
Hunter issued his own statement after Sunday’s pardon: “I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction, mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport.”
The feeble attempts by some in the media and in Democratic politics to defend Biden are simply sad, because they only tell half the story.
Let’s say that Hunter Biden was in fact selected to be prosecuted, that the case would have been routinely resolved if his last name was Jones. (Hunter had already been convicted in one case and pleaded guilty in another to tax and gun charges.)
But as Hunter admitted in an email, it was his last name, when his father was vice president, that allowed him to get all those contracts from around the world. That’s why the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma hired him, that’s why he was able to get money from China.
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Hunter had no experience in any of these areas. What he had was a connection to a powerful father.
The forgiveness is so broad that it covers everything Hunter could have done from Jan. 1, 2004, to Sunday, which could be a way for his father to protect himself, too.
Karine Jean-Pierre also told reporters on several occasions that Biden would not forgive Hunter.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured reporters that President Biden would not pardon Hunter. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Hunter Biden issued a statement Sunday night highlighting his recovery from addiction and sobriety:
“I have admitted and taken responsibility for my mistakes during the darkest days of my addiction, mistakes that have been exploited to publicly humiliate and shame me and my family for political sport.”
Mark Halperin maintains that Biden put his son in danger by running for president, knowing the full range of Hunter’s addiction problems, and lied about Hunter not receiving money from China and not helping his business clients (even if he only had a small talk in a couple). of group meetings).
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Meanwhile, Trump’s selection of Kash Patel for the FBI (who would replace his own appointee, Chris Wray, who replaced the fired Jim Comey) has sparked a media backlash.
What no one can argue is that Patel lacks experience. He has been Pentagon chief of staff and deputy assistant to the president. In fact, he was a national security prosecutor in Obama’s Justice Department, before Trump entered politics.
But on Steve Bannon’s podcast last year, Patel said: “Yes, we’re going to go after the people in the media who lied about American citizens helping Joe Biden rig the presidential election. We’re going to go after you, now.” whether criminal or civil.”
The president-elect is facing his own media storm after he named Kash Patel as the new FBI director over the weekend. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Patel has also said that on the first day he closed the FBI headquarters in Washington (ironically named after J. Edgar Hoover) and turned it into a museum about the “deep state.” Its 7,000 employees would be dispersed throughout the country.
One thing Biden never did was put any family members on the government payroll, as Trump did by appointing Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, to senior White House positions in the first term.
Now Trump is continuing that tradition by naming Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, ambassador to France.
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Kushner Sr. had already served a couple of years in prison for a scheme that involved hiring a prostitute and sending the tape to his sister. But at least he had paid his debts when Trump later pardoned him, sparking Jared’s interest in prison reform.
Trump also tapped Massad Boulos, the father of Tiffany Trump’s husband, as a White House adviser on Arab and Middle East affairs. All in family.
One thing the press does is refer to Trump’s nominees as “loyalists,” as if it were a bad word. Sunday’s Washington Post had a headline describing “loyal Kash Patel.”
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But while Biden appointed an inner circle of advisers who had been with him for four decades, they were not dismissed as loyalists. That’s because the media agrees that these were the good guys. And who can forget former Attorney General Eric Holder, who described himself as Barack Obama’s “sidekick”?
Hunter’s pardon has set in motion a potential cycle in which both presidents use the Justice Department and the FBI for purely partisan purposes, and Joe Biden bears full responsibility for it.
