There are less than 50 days until Donald Trump takes back the White House – so the Democrats are now doing some last-minute future-proofing. In a bombshell announcement overnight, President Biden revealed he has signed a pardon to a victim of a ‘miscarriage of justice’ whose case has been ‘infected’ by ‘raw politics.’ Who is this hapless victim you ask? Why, none other than the President’s own son Hunter Biden. And they call the Trumps nepotistic…
The U-turn comes just weeks after the White House denied that the President would make such a drastic move in the final months of his lame duck presidency. Biden, himself, said as recently as June that he would ‘not pardon’ his son, who was facing sentencing in two criminal cases on federal gun charges and federal tax evasion charges. His spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre even told reporters in July that ‘It’s still a no, it will be a no, it is a no and I don’t have anything else to add. Will he pardon his son? No.’
Yet now Biden Sr. has intervened, declaring that people are ‘almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form’ and that ‘It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.’ In a lengthy 350-word statement, the President raged against ‘several of my political opponents in Congress’ who he claimed made the charges a public spectacle ‘to attack me and oppose my election.’ He added that the plea deal Hunter agreed to with the Department of Justice was a ‘fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases’ but that deal fell through at the last minute under political pressure. Biden ends his letter by insisting:
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough… I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.
So much for ‘no one is above the law‘ eh Joe?