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Hot take: Don't care. This is the least of his (Clarity EDIT: President Biden's) crimes, and I don't care about him looking after family.
Hunter is absolute scum, but this still might be the most honorable thing Grandpa Joe did in the last four years.
EDIT: I still think it's understandable, if corrupt. However, I think I was also unclear; I meant the pardon is the least of Joe's crimes, not Hunter's. The president has nearly unlimited pardon powers. Of course he was going to use them. I'm not saying it's good, I'm not saying Hunter deserves it, but I'm saying it's par for the course. It was much more broad than I initially thought, too, which does sour me on it, but it's still totally expected and within Joe's rights.
It's a little broader than the gun conviction.
It only covers all the Ukraine shit too. Nothing sketchy happened there at all involving the Biden crime family. U
I'm aware. Point is, pardoning your totally guilty son is still more honorable and respectable than destroying this country.
Pardons are very often for unfavorable people who don't deserve it. Biden is using the power he is given to look after his (shitty, degenerate) family. Don't make me defend him. C'mon man. Listen, Fat.
I'm with you. Everything else they've both done aside, looking after his family is entirely reasonable.
"Looking after family" means giving your fuckup son his old room back after he goes bankrupt from a failed business, gets divorced and loses his house, and is struggling with alcoholism. Abusing your authority to give blanket immunity for a decade of malfeasance isn't reasonable, it's criminal conspiracy. Both Joe and Hunter should spend the rest of their lives in prison.
We are not an aristocracy. Fuck his family
Read "and covers offenses "which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in" over a nearly 11-year period from Jan. 1, 2014 through Dec. 1, 2024."
The gun shit is just the front.
I never mentioned the gun.
Pardon powers are nearly unlimited. Pardoning your son is a bad look, I agree, but that's are far as it goes. I don't like Joe, I don't like Hunter. This is, to my knowledge, completely legal, and far from the worst thing either of them have done.
If someone in Trump's family was a criminal, I wouldn't care if he pardoned them either.
We all knew this was coming, not sure why anyone is surprised or outraged.
While I agree with you on the gun charge (Trump should have pardoned Hunter for that one if Joe didn't), and I don't care about throwing Hunter into jail, this makes presidential pardon power sound worse. Just pardon family members who are criminals? That's why the Romans threw out Tarquin...
"Any and everything he did across a decade of time, it's all covered, any and everything" is, to you, "the least of his crimes"?
What the fuck did he do in December 2013?! Because the only way this covers the "least" of his crimes, is if "anything and everything" he did for a DECADE was somehow dwarfed by what happened prior but still within statute of limitations, a very thin window!
Yeah, I realize I was unclear, which might have contributed to my absolute downvote blowout.
I meant pardoning his guilty as hell son was the least of President Biden's crimes, not the least of Hunter's crimes. Agreed, it's a massive chunk of Hunter's crimes. And I didn't realize it was quite as broad as it was.
To be fair, there's potential incest rape that meets those requirements. Hunter is such an awful person there might very well be worse crimes earlier. But that wasn't my point.