WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, on Sunday night, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the benefit of his family.
The Democratic president had previously said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence after convictions in the two cases in Delaware and California. The move comes weeks before Hunter Biden was set to receive his punishment after his trial conviction in the gun case and guilty plea on tax charges, and less than two months before President-elect Donald Trump is set to return to the White House.
Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump’s first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing.
Of all the things he could have done, he did this?
Hey someone help me out, how many people could Biden have freed from prison for drug possession charges if he just pardoned as many as he could? Assuming he was a good person, I mean.
He still can, he’s not out of office for another six weeks!
Bonus question: if Biden actually cared about a potential mass deportation under Trump, how many millions of immigrants could he pardon of crossing the border unlawfully? It’s a federal crime, after all.
I read over Biden’s statement, and it makes sense to me. Hunter was singled out for political purposes. It would seem weird if Biden didn’t issue the pardon.
Not world news. It’s an internal matter of the US.
The US is part of the world.
I mean, i can see why. What are a few drugs, tax fraud and gun felony next to being cumplicit in the genocide of an entire people.
I bet Biden is proud of his son, for being a little better than him. Hopefully, Hunter’s son will only get speeding tickets.
In North American monarchy, dictator uses his powers to pardon his sonThe Constitution is set up so that a single representative civilian citizen is elected by all the other citizens to oversee the nation. That person occupies the Executive Office.
Constitutionally speaking, the representative of the people decided that the Justice System was being used punitively. The Constitution grants the Executive Office the power of pardons explicitly in case the Justice System is being used punitively.
This isn’t a bug, it’s a feature.
So corruption isn’t possible at all? If my town’s mayor gives millions in no-bid contracts to his cousin, that’s actually the representative of the people doing what the people want?
“Guy Who Wrote the Crime Bill that’s Destroyed Lives of Millions Pardons his Crackhead Son”
And democrats will really stare at me, holding their hands and wringing their wrists over “but why didn’t you vote for our corrupt-assed party”
Damnit Joe! You could have at least waited for the December 16 sentencing. As a first time offender he might have gotten off with a slap on the wrist (depending on the judge) and you wouldn’t look like such a hypocrite for letting him just be sentenced. By acting preemptively, you’re just sending the signal that it doesn’t matter what crimes were committed, he won’t be held accountable. If you’re going to stand on principle for four years, doing nothing to ensure Trump faces consequences, why throw it away at the very end. What a clusterfuck our political system has become.
So what? Half you all voted for a felon rapist. Don’t pretend you have morals.
What you’re exercising here is called whataboutism, and it’s a really shitty thing to do.
So is sexual assault, and the next president has done that too
And the current president molested his own daughter. She wrote in her diary that she had to wait til he went to sleep to shower, or he’d get in with her.
Ok, and? How does that have any bearing on what Biden did?
The author of the crime bill, responsible for the massive incarceration and enslavement of poor people in the US who spoke to congress about not giving a single shit about the circumstances of people who committed crimes, lock em up first ask questions later, just pardoned his son before sentencing because he’s a poor widdle misunderstood boi who didn’t know any better and his circumstances were so tough, what with having a senator dad with a lot of money.
Fucking blue MAGA I stg
It was only 70M, nowhere near half of Americans.
So even more reason not to give a shit about their opinion. They are shit AND not a majority.
You sound like a DNC strategist
Another banger from the party of checks and balances.
I could give a damn, but you know, it’s an overall race to the bottom
Reading this I just realised I can no longer tell if Americans mean could or couldn’t when they type could.
I couldn’t tell you why
Ah at least couldn’t provides the relief of certainty. I won’t ask you then
We’ve spent the last decade seeing repeatedly that the law doesn’t mean shit for the red team; is anyone actually surprised that blue is saying ‘fuck it’ now, too?
…but since we’re just openly abusing presidential power now, any chance he’ll use it to get something actually useful done, or we stopping at individual favors?
My take is that he thinks his son wouldnt be safe in prison under Trump. And that is a reasonable assumption imo.
That is the bed that Biden made when he decided to massively incarcerate poor people to get some free labor for corporations.
All the immigrants will not be safe unter trump also, but nobody cares about them do they?
Apparently not enough cared to vote for them. You know, they can’t afford eggs bro
Just wait for the tariffs to kick in, then they will live as kings and there will be no economic problems ever again /s
Are they charged or convicted of a federal crime where a pardon is even relevant? It’s not a power to grant citizenships or a genie wish.
Now, the whole ‘president can down whatever they like as an official act’ that the SCOTUS gave recently is another matter…
Is anyone safe in prison?
Is anyone safe under Trump?
Cringe take
He was always going to do it.
I can’t believe a PRESIDENT would LIE like that!
-Fox, probably
In all fairness, I doubt he remembers making that promise in the first place.
