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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.
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...