The outgoing US president interfered in favour of his son despite pledges not to.
US President-elect Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have blasted outgoing President Joe Biden for pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted of illegally purchasing a gun and tax evasion. The sentencing in both cases was scheduled for this month.
Despite saying publicly that he would not interfere in his son’s cases, the president went back on his word and announced the pardon on Sunday evening. He labelled the convictions “a miscarriage of justice,” arguing that Hunter Biden has been “singled out” because of his ties to the president.
According to the statement from the White House, the pardon applies to all offenses that were or may have been committed between January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024. This period covers accusations by Republicans that Hunter Biden acted as “a bagman” on behalf of his father during allegedly illicit business dealings in China and Ukraine. The president and his son have denied these allegations.
The Republicans, who have long accused the Biden administration of politically motivated prosecutions, condemned the pardon.
“The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponising the justice system,” Trump’s spokesman, Steven Cheung, said in a statement.
“That system of justice must be fixed and due process must be restored for all Americans, which is exactly what President Trump will do as he returns to the White House with an overwhelming mandate from the American people,” he added.
Trump compared the treatment of the president’s son to the prosecution of his own supporters who protested at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, hoping to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. “Does the pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of justice!” he wrote on Truth Social.
Many top Republicans in Congress were appalled, with Senator Chuck Grassley saying that he was “shocked” by Biden’s decision.
“This pardon is Joe Biden’s admission that Hunter is a criminal,” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote on X. Congressman Andy Biggs wrote that “Joe Biden will go down as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.”
“This is an outrageous abuse of the rule of law – all to protect the Biden family business of selling access and influence,” Senator Josh Hawley wrote on X.
The Republican-controlled House Committee on Oversight and Accountability released a statement, saying “Joe Biden’s unprecedented abuse of power has been a stain on the honour of the US presidency.”
The Whitehouse may have harboured criminals but none so blatant as these Biden AHs.
They literally impeached Trump for wanting to look into the Biden family’s crimes in Ukraine that apparently never happened, but for which Hunter was also just pardoned.
It’s a Monty Python skit at this point.
It appears crucial that the ‘separation of powers’ is a key rsstoration?
Nepotism is despicable.
This level of blatant corruption can only exist in a highly centralised government such as the federation of united states that has divorced itself from it’s constituents.
Perhaps it’s time it dissolved into it’s constituent parts.
“No one is above the law”™️
If elections were real, the worldwide left would never hold any kind of institutional power ever again. They are liars and criminals.
Smack on.
It’s his son, of course Joe pardoned Hunter.
Is everyone else is going under the bus 🤔.
Jill’s been doing all the “housework” this’ll be her department, don’t think the wars are though, probably that’s Hillary. Obama’s just giving the nod. Lordy what a free for all, all hands meddling.
Silly twat Harris is left out in the cold now, good job though for being an absolute stupid chook. Hope she gets the avion flu.
Biden’s decade in Ukraine comes to an end
https://www.bitchute.com/video/9Wnd7u4YrLY
Whose cocaine was that found in a restricted high security area of the White House?
Hunter
Kamala
This is really a metaphor for whats wrong with politics in the West. Too much power and commensurately, not enough accountability. Just look at how they behave here in New Zealand. You would think they are a form of untouchable royalty, not elected public servants.
Scott Ritter: Ukraine Nearing Its End
https://marketsanity.com/scott-ritter-ukraine-nearing-its-end/
Revelation 12:16 “And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.”