Hunter’s Par­don: Biden Reveals Democ­rats’ Real Agen­da, And They Are Furi­ous

Joe Biden made the Democ­rats’ real agen­da clear.

They are furi­ous.

On Sun­day evening, Pres­i­dent Joe Biden decid­ed to give a blan­ket par­don to his son Hunter for any and all activ­i­ties since 2014.

In a scene in “The Three Mus­ke­teers,” Car­di­nal Riche­lieu decides to give one of his hench­men a prospec­tive par­don for any­thing they are going to do at any point. The note starts by stat­ing, “By my order and for the good of the state,” then fin­ish­es, “the bear­er has done what has been done.”

That’s essen­tial­ly what Joe Biden did with his son, Hunter, by writ­ing him a par­don that allowed him any crime for about a decade, which is an amaz­ing­ly broad par­don.

It’s almost unprece­dent­ed in Amer­i­can his­to­ry. The only sim­i­lar instance that has been this broad was the Ger­ald Ford par­don of Richard Nixon, which was basi­cal­ly designed to qui­et any and all prob­lems sur­round­ing Water­gate and any sort of ancil­lary legal issues that would have arisen there­from with regard to Richard Nixon. The goal was to get that off the Amer­i­can people’s table and let them move on to the next thing.

That is not true with regard to Hunter Biden.

This is the pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States par­don­ing his son for any and all crimes, includ­ing those that were nev­er charged. Why is he doing that? He believes the incom­ing Trump DOJ is going to look into Hunter Biden’s finan­cial impro­pri­eties and the Biden fam­i­ly cor­rup­tion — so it’s not just about Hunter. It is real­ly about Joe.

In fact, it’s pos­si­ble to con­clude the Richard Nixon prece­dent might be the best prece­dent — because real­ly, what is Joe Biden doing here?

He’s attempt­ing to par­don him­self.

He can’t overt­ly par­don him­self because he has not been charged with any crimes. And he wants to pre­tend he is not guilty of any crimes. What he’s real­ly doing is get­ting Hunter off the table to get him­self off the table.

That is the goal. There’s real­ly no oth­er way to explain this.

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Mar­garet Love, who was the Unit­ed States par­don attor­ney from 1900 to 1997, stat­ed, “It’s very broad. It does not par­don spe­cif­ic offens­es, but rather takes a rather broad time span and par­dons any­thing, any crime that may have been com­mit­ted dur­ing that time span.”

Mark Osler, a par­don expert from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Saint Thomas, said, “This is very unusu­al. It’s unusu­al enough to grant clemen­cy in a case where there hasn’t yet been a con­vic­tion. It’s rar­er still to have the breadth of this one.”

This is cor­rect. This is an insane­ly broad par­don, and it’s meant to cov­er every­thing from vio­la­tions of the For­eign Agent Reg­is­tra­tion Act to fur­ther tax crimes to the pos­si­bil­i­ty of bribery.

Joe Biden is not answer­ing ques­tions per­tain­ing to any of this. He issued the par­don, and then he imme­di­ate­ly went to Ango­la.

I do won­der at this point whether, as a tran­si­tion­al move, he resigns from the pres­i­den­cy because he clear­ly no longer cares about being pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States. He has not been invest­ed in being pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States since he was oust­ed from the nom­i­na­tion for reelec­tion.

This par­don is the kind of move you make when you’re say­ing “f*** you” to your own par­ty and the Amer­i­can peo­ple.

And the Democ­rats are upset.

But they are not upset for the rea­sons you would think.

Let me explain.

Democ­rats have pre­emp­tive­ly decid­ed they’re going to use every option on the table rather than stick with any set of rules — which is one of the rea­sons that norms have actu­al­ly declined in pol­i­tics.

Democ­rats con­tin­ue say­ing that Don­ald Trump has bro­ken the norms.

After all, Joe Biden essen­tial­ly said the rea­son he par­doned Hunter was that Trump is going to come in and pros­e­cute Hunter.

How­ev­er, we know Trump is actu­al­ly not that kind of guy. Recall 2015 and 2016: When Trump was run­ning for pres­i­dent of the Unit­ed States, crowds chant­ed, “Lock her up!” — refer­ring to Hillary Clin­ton. Then, dur­ing a debate, Trump open­ly said that if he were pres­i­dent, Hillary Clin­ton would prob­a­bly be in jail.

But he didn’t do any of that. 

Trump’s DOJ was not acti­vat­ed in order to get his polit­i­cal oppo­nent.

But who did do that? Joe Biden.

After the 2020 elec­tion, it was Joe Biden’s DOJ that decid­ed to drill down on Don­ald Trump. And that was after four long years of career appointees inside the FBI and the DOJ drilling down on Trump.

So Democ­rats ini­ti­at­ed this con­flict, and now they are afraid of the blow­back. They’re afraid Trump will do the same to them.

Thus, Joe Biden is now pre­emp­tive­ly using the par­don pow­er in a unique and unprece­dent­ed way in order to avoid this.

We have entered an era where that norm has been bro­ken too. Now, you can imag­ine a sit­u­a­tion in which every pres­i­dent, on his last day in office, has to par­don him­self and all of his fam­i­ly mem­bers just to avoid a future in which the oppo­site par­ty comes in and pros­e­cutes every­one.

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You can eas­i­ly see that hap­pen­ing.

Is the next Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent going to pros­e­cute Trump for some­thing? I’d be shocked if they didn’t try.

Is the next Demo­c­ra­t­ic pres­i­dent going to pledge to pros­e­cute mem­bers of Don­ald Trump’s fam­i­ly? Hell, they basi­cal­ly did. 

That is the world in which we now live. Democ­rats have been break­ing prece­dents and norms for the last 15 years in Amer­i­can pol­i­tics. In antic­i­pa­tion of Repub­li­cans doing the same, they break the next norm. They break the norm about not pros­e­cut­ing their polit­i­cal oppo­nents. Then, in order to pre­vent Repub­li­cans from pros­e­cut­ing them in return, they’re issu­ing blan­ket par­dons to peo­ple like Hunter Biden.

This is how norms get destroyed.

The true norm destroy­ers in the coun­try are the Democ­rats.

The real rea­son some Democ­rats today are upset with Joe Biden is not because he par­doned Hunter. The real reason they’re upset about what Biden did is because, once again, a new rule has been set, and they know that rule is going to come back around. It’s going to swing back around and ham­mer them direct­ly in the head.

Sen­a­tor Michael Ben­net (D‑CO) ripped into Joe Biden yes­ter­day, say­ing, “Pres­i­dent Biden’s deci­sion put per­son­al inter­est ahead of duty and fur­ther erodes Amer­i­cans’ faith that the jus­tice sys­tem is fair and equal for all.”

Claire McCaskill, for­mer Mis­souri Demo­c­rat sen­a­tor, made clear the rea­son she is upset is because the par­don would give ammu­ni­tion to Trump. She’s not upset on prin­ci­ple at what Joe Biden did. If he could get away with it, she’d be fine with it. What she’s afraid of is that since the par­don pow­er has been used this way, Trump will use the par­don pow­er in the same man­ner.

This is the sto­ry of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty over the course of my life­time. They are not in favor of norms. They hate norms. They’re will­ing to destroy every norm from social insti­tu­tions like church­es to gov­ern­men­tal insti­tu­tions like the Sen­ate and the Supreme Court.

That’s what’s hap­pen­ing here.

The Democ­rats are furi­ous because Joe Biden made it obvi­ous. He was too stu­pid to do it sub­tly the way Democ­rats would pre­fer.

The real rea­son Democ­rats are furi­ous is because Joe Biden exposed the fact they are will­ing to use pow­er in pur­suit of their own agen­da at the cost of any and all norms.