The decision, which was first reported by NBC News, is a reversal for the president, who repeatedly said he would not use his authority to pardon his son or commute his sentence.
Honestly? With the absolute thought crime aspect and the way the plea deal was handled, I don't blame him one bit. There's no public interest in locking up Hunter Biden.
So this is his big Grand exit? He could do so much on the way out the door for the country but instead the senile old fuck only cares about his damn kid.
Donald Trump has a hitlist. Hunter is on that list. I don't think he deserves the pardon, but he needs it. Republicans will crucify him given the chance. I don't really want to see Republicans holding his head up on a pike for all to see, as much as they'd love that.
Democrats aren’t exactly being a role model right now, but a lot of them are probably covering the asses of their own since Republicans are so blind by fascistic rage that they’re going to put a lot of innocent heads on pikes.
All the other cases where they sentenced someone with a federal gun charge for lying on the form were plea deals. ABC said they couldn't find any instances of someone being charged and convicted on that charge alone. You can't say this wasn't a politically motivated prosecution when the charge has never been used that way before.
So his lame duck period is even more full-throated support for Israel and pardoning his own failson. He could, like, do anything at all that helps people. Any sort of progressive, popular idea that would actually benefit Americans. Hell, even if he failed it would do wonders for his legacy. He could try to do something, anything, to start making up for dragging down the entire party by refusing to drop out earlier, or allow for an actual primary. But nah. Pardons for Hunter.
With criminal Trump, having as he does zero respect for laws and legal norms, taking over the DOJ, and literally saying he is going to incarcerate his political enemies, it would be a national security risk for the former president's family to be in federal custody or facing serious federal charges.
Nah, fuck that. Look, I’m independent but vote D 100% because I have > 5 functioning synapses. I’m sick of this shit. I’m sick of trump appointing fuckbrain relations, convicted felons at that, to positions of power. And I’m sick of these special deals. That asshole committed crimes. Fuck him. Lock him the fuck up.
Fuck Joe Biden. Asshole could have announced in 2023 that he’s not running. We could have had a primary. But no. He had to wave his dick around. He bears some responsibility for the loss of the Republic.
These cunts are supposed to work for us. We ought to treat them with the same contempt as they show us.
Its not the first time dems look indistinguishable from republicans (who are fascists) on Joe's watch, is it.
Biden is a guy who participated in obvious war crimes that 88% of his party didnt support-- as a democrat.. And imperiously ignored the key issues of the campaign. Of course he's going to pardon his shitty d-bag lobbyist son on the way out the door. Biden has lowered the bar for his party, for democracy, and for the entire western world order straight through the floor and deep into bedrock. We'll need some sort of engineering miracle to ever even raise the bar up to ground level, much less hold it any higher anytime soon.
To all the people in this thread claiming he needed to pardon him or trump would do something, without naming what that something is or using hyperbole, trump doesn't care about hunter. The hunter case was about
Dragging the Biden name through the dirt and making them seem like a crime family. They don't need to do this anymore because Biden hasn't been a threat to trump since that last debate. Its not like he's afraid to run against him in 2028
To call out them dems for there hypocrisy and try and make some equivalence with trumps convictions. This pardon plays perfectly into that narrative and now gives trump an excuse to pardon himself and all his accomplices.
Hunter is of no use to the trump administration now, don't try to sell this as anything but a powerful father bailing out his failure of a son.
He was already a no-integrity war criminal on the take from a foreign government, might as well pardon his son for being a chip off the old block. Wonder when Hunter will make his presidential run? He has a clean record now.
Liberals are partly to blame. Many workers in the South and Midwest lost their jobs, and liberals responded by looking down their noses at the "dumb country bumpkins" in the flyover states, where the so-called "basket of deplorables" live. They should listen to the educated elites. Democrats focus on social justice instead of jobs and the price of bread, leaving them out of touch with the common person.**