The Hunter Biden Pardon Was the Right Thing to Do

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

There are several diaries just posted in the last few minutes about President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. This sort of thing happens a lot with breaking news, and I wasn’t going to add one more to the pile. But some of the diaries — and some of the comments — were more about this being a mistake on Biden’s part or how it will now give Trump cover for all kinds of nefarious pardons, so I decided to throw in my three cents as a diary of my own.

There is a highly academic and pedantic response to those arguments: bullshit.

In his statement about it, Biden argued that there would have been no prosecution, or at most there would have been a plea deal, which is standard in these sorts of cases — but the president’s enemies made Hunter a target in order to get at his father.

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.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/1/2289654/-The-Hunter-Biden-Pardon-Was-the-Right-Thing-to-Do

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. I imagine the whack-job appointments

Of zealots like Bondi and Patel had him understanding that his son's life would be in danger under their regime.

[Sneederbunk]

2. This.

Brian Beutler:

"Very few Americans grasp how obscene and unethical the GOP’s treatment of the younger Biden has been. That reflects the moral and strategic failure of congressional Democrats and Merrick Garland, who together fed Hunter to the wolves rather than excavate the full truth of Trump 1.0’s corruption of DOJ. If they’d done the latter, Garland would’ve been well positioned to terminate the case long ago. They bent to fear of perceived partisanship rather than act in the interests of justice."

[crimycarny]

4. "They bent to fear of perceived partisanship rather than act in the interests of justice"--This!!!

OMG, that from Brian Buetler hits the nail on the head of the Democratic Party. How many times will Dems continue the circular firing squad out of fear of optics? And what good does it do (answer: it doesn't). Look at what the Democrats did to Senator Al Franken, who had been an effective thorn in the GOP's side. GOP sat back and laughed their a** off while they saw the Democratic party do their dirty work. "Hey, who's our biggest nightmare in the Democratic party that we'd like to get rid of? Let's accuse them of something and watch the Democratic party fall all over themselves to prove their purity." Works like a charm every time.

I, for one, and grateful Joe Biden didn't fall into that "fear of optics" crap. He did what was fair, just, and appropriate.

[Easterncedar]

3. Damn right.

No question; it was exactly what needed to be done.