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There isn’t a different method to put it: Joe Biden lied. Again and again.
After repeatedly promising, pledging, vowing to not pardon his son Hunter, the President of the US did precisely that.
The transfer amounted to a devastating vote of no confidence in his personal Justice Division, matching Donald Trump’s personal denunciations of that very division.
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Trump, who additionally pardoned a number of political allies throughout his first time period, was fast to react on Fact Social:
“Does the pardon given by Joe to Hunter embody the J-6 hostages, who’ve now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”
And outstanding Republicans are calling Biden a liar, with ample justification.
Each President Biden and President-elect Trump railed towards the Justice Division following the previous’s pardon of his son, Hunter – albeit for markedly totally different causes. (Reuters/Getty/AP Pictures)
I feel most individuals assumed {that a} father wouldn’t let his son go to jail. And if the president had defined it in these phrases, he may need garnered some public sympathy. However he didn’t.
You understand how the president typically talks about “my phrase as a Biden”? I mistakenly assumed that he wouldn’t promise many times to not pardon his son or commute his sentence if he had thought there was any chance he would get Hunter off the authorized hook.
However what’s anybody going to do? He leaves workplace subsequent month, his political profession is over and the story will rapidly fade.
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Biden sounded very very like Trump as he accused the DOJ, which he had lengthy defended, of treating his son unfairly – swinging the political door broad open for the president-elect to retaliate towards Justice, partly by naming longtime confidant Kash Patel to run the FBI.
Biden stated his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” and he blamed political stress on the particular counsel named within the case.
“No affordable one that appears on the information of Hunter’s instances can attain every other conclusion than Hunter was singled out solely as a result of he’s my son — and that’s flawed. There was an effort to interrupt Hunter — who has been 5-1/2 years sober, even within the face of unrelenting assaults and selective prosecution. In making an attempt to interrupt Hunter, they’ve tried to interrupt me — and there’s no purpose to consider it’ll cease right here. Sufficient is sufficient.”
Many had been mistaken of their assumption that the President would not pardon his son – nonetheless, with slightly below two months left of his time period, and, presumably, his political profession, Biden actually has nothing to lose in doing so. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
However that bolsters the Trump argument that he too was singled out for selective prosecution by the DOJ – and will likely be able to do one thing about it.
Hunter put out his personal assertion after the Sunday pardon: “I’ve admitted and brought accountability for my errors in the course of the darkest days of my dependancy — errors which were exploited to publicly humiliate and disgrace me and my household for political sport.”
The feeble makes an attempt by some within the media and in Democratic politics to defend Biden are simply unhappy, as a result of they solely inform half the story.
Let’s say Hunter Biden was in truth singled out for prosecution, that the case would have been routinely disposed of if his final title was Jones. (Hunter had already been convicted in a single case and pleaded responsible in one other to tax and gun-related costs.)
However as Hunter admitted in a single e-mail, it was his final title, when his father was vice chairman, that enabled him to land all these buckraking contracts from all over the world. It’s why the Ukrainian vitality large Burisma employed him, why he was capable of get cash from China.
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Hunter had no experience in any of those areas. What he had was a connection to a robust father.
The pardon is so sweeping that it covers all the things Hunter could have performed from Jan. 1, 2004 by means of Sunday – which might be a means of his father defending himself as effectively.
Karine Jean-Pierre additionally informed reporters on a number of events that Biden wouldn’t pardon Hunter.
White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly assured reporters that President Biden would not pardon Hunter. (AP Photograph/Evan Vucci)
Hunter Biden on Sunday night time launched a press release noting his restoration from dependancy and his sobriety:
“I’ve admitted and brought accountability for my errors in the course of the darkest days of my dependancy — errors which were exploited to publicly humiliate and disgrace me and my household for political sport.”
Mark Halperin argues that Biden put his son in jeopardy by working for president, figuring out the complete vary of Hunter’s dependancy issues – and lied about Hunter not getting cash from China and never serving to his enterprise shoppers (even when he simply made small discuss at a few group conferences).
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In the meantime, Trump’s alternative of Kash Patel for the FBI (who would substitute his personal appointee, Chris Wray, who changed the fired Jim Comey) has sparked a media backlash.
One factor nobody can argue is that Patel lacks expertise. He has been chief of workers on the Pentagon and a deputy assistant to the president. In actual fact, he was a nationwide safety prosecutor within the Obama Justice Division, earlier than Trump received into politics.
However on Steve Bannon’s podcast final yr, Patel stated: “Sure, we will come after the individuals within the media who lied about Americans who helped Joe Biden rig presidential elections. We will come after you, whether or not it is criminally or civilly.”
The president-elect is dealing with a media firestorm of his personal after he named Kash Patel the brand new FBI director over the weekend. (Photograph by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
Patel has additionally stated that on day one he’d shut down the FBI headquarters in Washington – satirically named for J. Edgar Hoover – and switch it right into a museum on the “deep state.” Its 7,000 workers can be dispersed across the nation.
One factor Biden by no means did was put any relations on the federal government payroll, as Trump did in naming Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, to high White Home positions within the first time period.
Now Trump is continuous that custom by naming Charles Kushner, Jared’s father, as ambassador to France.
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The elder Kushner had already served a few years in jail for a scheme that concerned hiring a prostitute and sending the tape to his sister. However at the very least he had paid his dues when Trump later pardoned him, sparking Jared’s curiosity in jail reform.
Trump additionally picked Massad Boulos – the daddy of Tiffany Trump’s husband – as White Home adviser on Arab and Center East affairs. All within the household.
One factor the press does is consult with Trump nominees as “loyalists,” as if that’s a grimy phrase. Sunday’s Washington Publish had a headline describing “loyalist Kash Patel.”
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However whereas Biden named an internal circle of aides who had been with him so long as 4 a long time, they weren’t dismissed as loyalists. That’s as a result of the media agree that these had been the great guys. And who can overlook former AG Eric Holder describing himself as Barack Obama’s “wingman.”
The Hunter pardon has set in movement a possible cycle of each presidents utilizing the DOJ and FBI for purely partisan ends, and Joe Biden bears full accountability for that.
Howard Kurtz is the host of FOX Information Channel’s MediaBuzz (Sundays 11 a.m.-12 p.m. ET). Based mostly in Washington, D.C., he joined the community in July 2013 and usually seems on Particular Report with Bret Baier and different applications.
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