There's no other way to say it. Joe Biden lied. Over and over again.
After repeatedly pledging, pledging and swearing that he would not spare his son Hunter, the President of the United States did just that.
The move coincided with Donald Trump's own rebuke of the Justice Department and amounted to a devastating vote of no confidence in his own agency.
President Biden pardons son Hunter, avoiding possible prison sentence
President Trump also pardoned several political allies during his first term, but was quick to respond when it came to Truth Social.
“Does the pardon Joe granted Hunter include the J-6 hostages who have now been imprisoned for years? Such abuse and miscarriage of justice!”
And prominent Republicans are calling Biden a liar with full justification.
President Biden and President-elect Trump slammed the Justice Department after President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, albeit for markedly different reasons. (Reuters/Getty/AP Images)
I think most people thought that a father would never send his son to prison. If the president had explained it in such terms, he might have garnered some sympathy from the public. But he didn't.
You know how the president often talks about “my words as Biden”? I misunderstood that if he thought there was a chance he could get Hunter out of legal trouble, he wouldn't repeatedly promise not to pardon or commute his son's sentence. was.
But who is going to do what? He will step down next month, his political career will be over, and this story will quickly fade away.
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Mr. Biden echoed President Trump in accusing the Justice Department, which he has long defended, of treating his son unfairly. He also nominated longtime confidant Kash Patel as his presidential candidate, opening the political door wide open for the next president to retaliate against the Justice Department. F.B.I.
Biden said his son had been “selectively and unfairly prosecuted” and blamed political pressure on the special counsel appointed in the case.
“No reasonable person considering the facts of Hunter's case could come to any other conclusion than that Hunter was chosen solely because he is my son – and that is wrong. 5-1. They have tried to break me down in the face of relentless attacks and selective prosecution, but it ends here. There is no reason to believe that.”
Many people mistakenly believed that the president would not pardon his son. But with just under two months left in his term and likely his political career, Biden has nothing to lose by pardoning him. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)
But it strengthens Trump's argument that he too has been singled out by the Justice Department for selective prosecution and will be in a position to do something about it.
Hunter released his own statement after Sunday's pardon, saying, “I have acknowledged and taken responsibility for the mistakes I made during the darkest days of my addiction. It was exploited to publicly humiliate and humiliate him.”
The feeble attempts by some in the media and Democratic politicians to defend Biden are truly sad because they only tell half the story.
Let's say Hunter Biden had actually been selected for prosecution, and if his last name had been Jones, this case would have been handled routinely. (Hunter had already been convicted in one case and pleaded guilty to tax and gun-related charges in another.)
But as Hunter acknowledged in an email, his last name helped him secure big-ticket contracts from around the world when his father was vice president. That's why Ukrainian energy giant Burisma hired him and why he was able to get funding from China.
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Hunter had no expertise in any of these areas. What he had was a strong connection to his father.
The pardon is very broad, covering everything Hunter may have done from January 1, 2004 to Sunday, but it may also have been for his father to protect himself. I don't know.
Karine Jean-Pierre also told reporters several times that Biden would not pardon Hunter.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured reporters that President Biden had no intention of pardoning Hunter. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Hunter Biden released a statement Sunday night pointing to his recovery from addiction and sobriety.
“I have acknowledged and taken responsibility for the mistakes I made during the darkest days of my addiction. Those mistakes were exploited to shame and humiliate me and my family as a public political sport. Ta.”
Mark Halperin says Biden put his son at risk by running for president knowing the full extent of Hunter's addiction problem, and lied that Hunter didn't take money from China or help his business partners. (even if they were just making small talk at a couple's table). of group meetings).
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Meanwhile, President Trump's selection of Kash Patel to lead the FBI (to replace Chris Wray, whom he personally appointed to replace the fired Jim Comey) caused a media backlash.
One thing no one disputes is that Patel lacks experience. He has served as chief of staff at the Department of Defense and deputy chief of staff to the president. In fact, before Trump entered politics, he served as a national security prosecutor in the Obama Justice Department.
But Patel said on Steve Bannon's podcast last year: “Yes, we're going to go after people in the media who have lied about Americans helping Joe Biden rig the presidential election. I'm going to come after you, whether it happens or not.” Both criminally and civilly. ”
The president-elect is facing media fire after naming Kash Patel as the new FBI director over the weekend. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Mr. Patel also said he would close the FBI headquarters in Washington (ironically named after J. Edgar Hoover) on the first day and turn it into a museum about the “deep state.” The company's 7,000 employees will be spread across the country.
One thing Biden never did was put his family on the government payroll, much like President Trump did in his first term when he nominated Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner to top White House posts. It was to be posted on.
Now, President Trump has continued that tradition by nominating Jared's father, Charles Kushner, as ambassador to France.
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Mr. Kushner had already served several years in prison for a scheme to hire prostitutes and send the tapes to his sister. But when President Trump later pardoned him, Jared became interested in prison reform, but at least he paid the price.
President Trump also named Massad Boulos, the father of Tiffany Trump's husband, as White House adviser for Arab and Middle Eastern affairs. With the whole family.
One of the things the media does is call candidate Trump a “loyalist” as if it were a dirty word. Sunday's Washington Post ran a headline describing it as “Loyalist Kash Patel.”
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But while Biden named members of his inner circle who have been with him for four decades, he did not exclude them as supporters. That's because the media agrees that they are good people. Who can forget when former AG Eric Holder called himself a “collaborator” of Barack Obama?
Hunter's pardon sets off a potential cycle in which both presidents use the Justice Department and FBI for purely partisan purposes, for which Joe Biden bears full responsibility.
