Last December, Karine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary, insisted, 'I've been very clear: The president is not going to pardon his son.' The president reiterated this point in early June when he told ABC's David Muir that he would not pardon Hunter if he was convicted.
But he doubled down on dishonesty in his statement about the pardon, claiming Hunter's prosecution was a result of political pressure on the judicial process. Nonsense. The charges stem from Hunter's reckless lifestyle, abetted and financed by his willingness to trade shamelessly on the family name.
Every year, federal prosecutors file hundreds of cases against persons charged with lying on the Firearms Transaction Record, or Form 4473, required for anyone buying a firearm from a licensed gun dealer. How is it that the same president who made both gun control and stricter tax enforcement key parts of his political message suddenly sees his own son's transgressions as nuisance offenses?
It was always a good bet that the president would break his word as soon as it was politically safe to do so. The younger Biden faced separate criminal tax charges.
Collection
[
|
...
]