#joe biden pardons hunter biden

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[destielmemenews]

"The pardon means Hunter Biden won’t be sentenced for his crimes, and it eliminates any chance of his being sent to prison, which was a possibility. Once the judges overseeing his cases are notified of the pardon, they’ll likely cancel the sentencing hearings, which were slated for December 12 in the gun case and December 16 in the tax case.

Biden said in the statement that he decided to issue the pardon because his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” saying that “Hunter was treated differently” from people who commit similar crimes."

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[deadpresidents]

Thoughts on Biden pardoning his son?

This country just elected a man President who was convicted of 34 felonies and never sentenced and had dozens of other felony criminal charges just magically dropped. I'm fine with the pardon.

Plus, I love Joe Biden. He's buried two of his children and he had the unconditional power to keep his only surviving son from going to prison, so I always figured he'd pardon Hunter. If anyone is outraged by this, they better buckle the fuck up for the next four years.

[jadeseadragon]

[generallemarc]

Oh, it is a good day to not be a liberal! Alright lefties, let's see all the many ways that you'll try to defend/excuse Biden for doing the exact same thing you criticized Trump for. Bonus points if you use identical logic behind why Trump did it. "It was a politically-motivated witch-hunt, even though by saying that I'm implying that the judge was paid off or otherwise manipulated into making the verdict they did and thus indirectly declaring the existence of a massive conspiracy that wants to convict people of doing crimes they provably did" is my personal favorite, but I'm sure there'll be many others.

[grits-galraisedinthesouth]

Biden Crime Family: Joe Biden not only pardoned delinquent son Hunter Biden, but ALL his siblings and their spouses for a decades worth of criminal activities committed January 1, 2014-January 19, 2025

Biden issued preemptive pardons to James B. Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John T. Owens, and Francis W. Biden for any nonviolent offenses they may have committed from January 1, 2014, through the date of the pardon.

[gamer2002]

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[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

An open letter to President Joe Biden: Free Leonard Peltier

By Stephen Millies

Mr. President, If you can pardon your son, why can’t you free the Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier?

The 80-year-old man, a leader of the American Indian Movement, has been imprisoned for 48 years. He suffers from diabetes, high blood pressure, and a heart condition.

The FBI framed Leonard Peltier in retaliation for the historic 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee. Three years of violence followed this courageous stand for Indigenous rights, with over 60 AIM members and supporters murdered. Despite a large FBI presence, nothing was done to stop these murders and even more numerous assaults. 

[superbeans89]

How Hunter Got His Pardon

[liberty1776]

Joe Biden's pardon of his son Hunter is the most sweeping Presidential pardon since Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon. It represents the deep corruption and contempt for the rule of law that has characterized the Biden presidency. But it is also important for another reason: the pardon is an attempt to erase the Biden family involvement with Ukraine from the time of the 2014 coup through the millions that passed into family accounts. Our current state of near WWIII is directly tied to the Biden family seeking personal riches in Ukraine.

[uboat53]

Hey look, Biden pardoned his son and the media is going wall-to-wall in its coverage. Yeah, this is exactly what's wrong with our country right now. SHORT RANT (TM)?

WHAT HAPPENED?

So, for those who missed it, President Biden has officially pardoned his son Hunter. Media coverage of this is wall-to-wall today, it's the front page story on every single national news website. But, of course, that's not the whole story here or I wouldn't be calling it "what's wrong with our country".

Obviously it's getting reported as unequal justice, but let's look at what led to it in the first place. As reported at the time, the firearms charges that he was charged with and convicted of are charges that are almost never charged if they are the only ones that can be proven. In other words, far from being unequally pardoned of common crimes, the younger Biden is being pardoned of crimes that no ordinary person would have been charged with in the first place.

Let's face it, Biden wouldn't have needed a pardon if his dad hadn't been president. I'm a father myself and, if my kid was facing jail time as a result of something I did and I had the power to undo that, I'd undo it without a second thought and who cares about the consequences. Good luck finding a headline or even a full article in the American media today that provides all of that detail.

THE COVERAGE

The most responsible coverage reports this in the context of how it will provide an example for Trump to point to about how justice in this country is unequal/political, which, sure? Of course, that coverage (1) doesn't mention the context that I described above and (2) largely ignores Trump's own massive politicization of justice for the benefit of himself and his cronies.

The less responsible coverage, FOX News for example, simply reports it as an outrage the likes of which has never happened in American history and provides no other context whatsoever. As I said, I expect this from FOX, but the issue is how much this particular framing has leeched out into the broader media ecosystem because we've all forgotten the lessons of 2016 in which we should have learned that FOX and right-wing media in general must largely be tuned out if you want to report accurate news.

WHY IT'S A PROBLEM

Look, I'm all for being outraged that Biden is doing something like this, but are you only outraged at Biden? Where was this outrage when Trump pardoned major political supporters, campaign staff, and political advisors? Where was the outrage when he pardoned 7 Congressmen who had supported him politically? Where was the outrage when he pardoned wealthy individuals who had paid tens of thousands of dollars for those pardons? Where was the outrage when he promised to issue a blanket pardon to those who attempted to overthrow our Constitution and our democracy on January 6th, 2021? Where was the outrage when he talked about pardoning HIMSELF for the myriad of crimes that he has committed and been charged with?

If we're going to talk about unequal justice, let's talk about unequal justice, but at this point it seems like there is more outrage for people who take actions that might feed into Trump's misguided narratives than there is for Trump himself.

When Democrats talk about a double standard, this is it; Democrats are held to an impossible standard of perfection because any perceived misstep might give fuel to Trump's outrageous lies while Trump himself is able to do just about anything with only the barest of peeps. It's a double-standard that's guaranteed to make even the most perfect Democrat look as bad as Trump to the casual observer even as he wallows in corruption, bigotry, and criminality.

That's what's wrong with our country right now, we can't accurately get across the scale of atrociousness that Trump commits on a daily basis because we're too focused on making sure that those opposing him meet an impossible standard of purity before we're willing to even look at him. No problem can be fixed until the person who needs to fix it can put a name to the problem and describe it and the American media seems to be committed to making sure that we are never able to understand where the problem actually lies and what it actually is.

Until that changes, be prepared for American politics to sink deeper and deeper into the muck and mire of Trumpian corruption.

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[mysharona1987]

But Trump was going to do that anyway?

He’s literally been bragging about it for at least a year.

“How dare Joe Biden make Trump do the thing he already intended to do?”

Not even getting into whether I agree with what Biden did, but Kirk makes a ridiculous talking point here.

[short-wooloo]

The only thing the lunatic right winger killing the unitedhealthcare ceo proved is that people were in fact going to forget all about Joe Biden pardoning Hunter and no one would care about it by the 2028 (never mind the 2026) elections

Granted I assumed it would be at least a month instead of a week before people forgot but still

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ella Lee and Rebecca Beitsch at The Hill, via NewsNation:

President Biden announced pardons for members of his family in the last minutes of his presidency, a shocking development as President-elect Trump’s inauguration is already underway. The blanket pardons were granted to his brother, James Biden; his sister-in-law, Sara Jones Biden; his sister, Valerie Biden Owens; his brother-in-law, John T. Owens; and his youngest brother, Francis Biden. “My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me — the worst kind of partisan politics,” Biden said in a statement. “Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.” Biden said the pardons do not acknowledge any wrongdoing, nor should acceptance be viewed as an admission of guilt. They cover any nonviolent offense from Jan. 1, 2014, to Sunday.  The pardon for the Biden family members came after a number of them testified before the then-House Oversight and Accountability Committee as it investigated both President Biden and son, Hunter Biden, in a probe of influence peddling. While President Biden pardoned Hunter Biden in December, he had not yet done so for other family members, risking continued congressional oversight.

In the final hours of Joe Biden’s Presidency, he gave preemptive pardons to the rest of Biden’s family members. Hunter was already pardoned in December 2024.

[thashining]

Oh? They want to talk about nepotism and abuse of the presidential pardon power??