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Summary
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, reversing his prior stance against using executive clemency.
The pardon covers Hunter’s federal gun conviction and tax evasion guilty plea, sparking political controversy.
Biden cited political attacks and a “miscarriage of justice” as reasons for his decision, emphasizing his son’s recovery from addiction and the targeting of his family.
Critics argue the move undermines the judicial process, while supporters view it as within Biden’s constitutional powers.
This decision shields Hunter from potential prison time as Biden nears the end of his presidency.
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Lol I don’t give a fuck, if I had a functional democracy with justice then maybe k would care, but this system is clearly FUBAR
The votes came in. The country chose corruption and “fuck it” politics. At this point Joe just wants to protect himself / family from the coming retribution administration.
History has now shown us that there was evidently no one on the ballot who wasnt a “corruption and fuck it politics” candidate.
This is yet another example of Biden just not doing things sufficiently enough. He must issue a preemptive umbrella pardon for himself, as Trump’s DOJ, FBI, and CIA will go after him
I agree, he should push the limit of what’s possible to force the Supreme Court to rule on the actions, call their bluff, lay bare the hypocrisy officially for all the world to see.
He should have threatened to start jailing Senators as an official act unless they pass a law/amendment saying that he can’t.
He still can, in fact.
He pardoned himself in his mind, same way Trump declassified those documents.
Exactly. By not testing the supreme court, he is seen as being complicit in the manipulation of the system that Trump plans to implement and he might fall victim of it himself. The chances that Biden dies of old age during a lengthy court case or in jail, unfortunately, are non-zero.
In any case, Dem’s lack of imagination is just astounding
Testing the supreme court could also result in certain dictatorial powers for Trump. At the moment they are only theoretical.
Trump will test anyway, so not testing only delays the inevitable
Dems have always been cowards :/
Exactly! The same way Trump locked Hillary up in prison after he won in 2016 right.
Power corrupts. If you have the opportunity to help a family member without any blowback, eventually the opportunity will soften you up.
And then the same power goes to Trump, who’s not in need of corrupting, since he’s already fully baked.
I guess it would be better if a power to bypass the justice system wasn’t available. A creative and unethical person can do a lot of things with it. Bad things.
Democrats and Trump are now even. Both witch hunts can be dropped.
I love how the top comment is essentially whataboutism.
Post: Joe Biden does thing.
Lemmy: TRUUUUUUUUMP.
I wish presidents can just give legal status to people. Just give everyone currently in the US citizenship status. It’d be epic.
It’s not that they can’t, it’s that they don’t want to.
Ah of course. Capitalism. Why give them legal status so they can demand higher wages. Gotta exploit workers and threaten deportation if they dont comply. Maximum profits amirite?
(Honestly too sad to think about it 😓)
A pretty mundane act of fatherhood. If you had the power to prevent your kid from going to jail for something that was done a 5 years ago most people would do it. It wasn’t a violent crime that he is being pardoned from so its not that much different than all the pardons Trump did in his first term for all the fraud convictions.
For those of you who want to act like this is no big deal, he didn’t do anything too bad, it’s a non-issue please watch Nate the Lawyer’s video on it.
I don’t love it, but I get it
I do love it. It’s about time a Democrat fucking did something without constant worry about what Fox News might say about it. You think we were going to win over these supposed “centrists” anyway?
He’s not appointing him to a cabinet position. He’s not making him the Ambassador to France. And the only reason he was having the entire book thrown at him for crimes he did, absolutely commit was, in fact, political.
Fuck former Senator Bob Menendez. That was real corruption. Fuck Blagojevich, he should rot in prison (except that Trump pardoned him). But Hunter’s crimes were pretty minor.
I’d prefer that he’d act in the interest of the American people overall in his cutting and running. The last month has had many examples of last minute “good luck with the fallout, Donny” moves, but this is exclusively self interest. I don’t love it, but I get it. Hope he enjoys whichever country he and his son will flee to as we mad max it
The GOP has zero moral fibers to stand on. Joe free yourself from these Nazi shits.
Good.
Why should Democrats continue taking the high ground now? Americans just overwhelmingly voted for blatant corruption. Nothing matters anymore. No reason for Dems to play it straight when they already tried that and Americans didn’t respect it.
Corruption is in. Let’s do it.
That’s wild. Lots of people thought he would wait until sentencing to decide.
Just like Harris going to Hawaii immediately after her loss, this sends a clear message.
“I don’t give a fuck. This was always about personal power and wealth.”
Just incase anyone thought the DNC would actually use their defeat as a reason to soul search about how their neoliberal policies no longer serve the people and that’s why people aren’t coming out to vote.
Fuck it, I’d do the same. Potentially 25 years in prison for non-violent crimes is ridiculous. Might as well use the power to prevent it while you still have it.
On the one hand this is pretty hypocritical. On the other hand I probably would do the same in his position given that trump plans to weaponize the Justice department. Not great but this is the state our country is in now.
