We all heard what Joe Biden did last evening. However, after getting over my initial reaction of overwhelming exhaustion from almost four years of this administration, I read his statement to understand his reasoning.
President Biden issued a statement that goes as follows:
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently…”
You can read the full statement here, but the message is clear. Despite at least 10 different occasions where President Joe Biden and his people stated he had no intention to pardon his son, Hunter Biden will face no consequences.
It’s hard to fault someone for pardoning a family member. But my issue, and what I find particularly egregious and sinister, is how Biden treated the questioning from critics. In the White House briefing his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre would even mock reporters who pursued a line of questioning on the Hunter Biden issue.
As a candidate, Biden would crow about the rule of law, and that that separated him from the likes of Trump. All his Democratic sycophants praised him for being so upstanding for making the hard decision—specifically as he talked about how stalwart he was in refusing to pardon his son.
Then things changed. He lost his chance at retaining power and his tune changed. Now we know what he already knew: He was merely feigning morality the entire time just to pursue his own ends. At the end of the day, he would do whatever it took to please those he was trying to get to vote for him.
What’s interesting about this letter—and I’ve read it probably 5 or 6 times last evening— is it’s exactly what Democrats have said about Donald Trump’s view of the justice system. This emphasis on “selective prosecution” that he’s complained of. It's almost as if we're moving closer and closer together on these issues. Other issues too. Throughout the campaign cycle you saw Biden, then Harris, actually starting to embrace the need for stricter border enforcement, reestablishing detention centers, questioning people about asylum, reversing the obsessions with EVs and alternative energy, and reprioritizing at-home oil drilling.
Not long ago these opinions were the sin of all sins. It’s amazing how everything’s come closer together.
Now we have the Hunter Biden pardon, and this is the culmination of all of that. President Joe Biden embraced the Trump dialog, explaining how the Department of Justice is guilty of selective prosecution, unfair treatment, and “raw” political pressure. This was the same man who had promised an independent Department of Justice and bragged for years about how they accomplished that, citing his appointment of Merrick Garland as proof of turning a new leaf after the Trump years.
But here we are, now, watching Biden thwart the justice he promised to restore. On the one hand, he's talking about this selective prosecution. On the other hand, he fails to mention any of the investigations and evidence of insider dealing.
Biden decided to throw his own party under the bus by abusing his own independent Department of Justice and is blaming everybody else for his son’s own failures, the son who walked into a court and pleaded guilty to many of these charges.
He knew what he did, admitted to it, and will never have to face the consequences.
