President Joe Biden announced Sunday that he has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, who faced sentencing this month on gun crime and tax convictions, marking a reversal as he prepares to leave office.
“Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter,” the president said in a statement. It is a “full and unconditional pardon,” according to a copy of the executive grant of clemency.
This official grant of clemency cannot be rescinded by President-elect Donald Trump.
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Wait, does this mean that Hunter no longer gets to plead the 5th on anything?Report
Anything covered by the pardon.Report
From the article:
That means that Hunter can’t plead the 5th on any Federal crimes, at all, over the last decade.
Huh.Report
And, of course, the headline:
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Good.
And anyone who thinks this will “justify” Trump doing wild pardons, please remember this:
1. He has already did it at the end of his first term;
2. His cabinet nominees lets us all know exactly what is second term is going to be like;
3. He was going to do wild pardons anyway;
4. He just nominated Charles Kushner to be ambassador to Framce. Kushner is a man who tried to honeypot his own brother in law and send the tape to his sister.
4a. Guess who pardoned Charles Kushner?
5. “Just because Republicans are going to be bad, doesn’t mean Democrats need to stoop low” and 5 bucks gets you a cup of coffee the chance to hold your head high as the train takes you to DachauReport
I didn’t mind when Jimmy Carter pardoned Billy, I don’t mind this pardon.
I think that this pardon is funnier than Billy’s pardon, but maybe it’s just because a lot of humor from the 70’s doesn’t translate perfectly to the current year.
(It does seem that the institutionalists seem to hate the pardon but the accelerationists seem to love it. Seems about right.)Report