Six months after telling the nation he wouldn’t pardon his son, President Joe Biden did precisely that, and response from the firearms group is overwhelmingly unfavorable, though the president’s transfer was hardly shocking.
Hunter Biden was convicted in June of three federal firearms felonies when a jury took lower than three hours to conclude he illegally bought and possessed a firearm whereas utilizing unlawful medicine and mendacity about it on a federal Type 4473. There was no small irony in the truth that Joe Biden had supported the legal guidelines his son violated.
The elder Biden granted his son a full and unconditional pardon, reneging on the promise he made repeatedly. The hypocrisy of his actions got here by way of in his assertion of justification: “No affordable one who seems to be on the info 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 improper.”
The exact same arguments is likely to be made concerning the man who will substitute Joe Biden in January, the previous president who was, in line with his trustworthy supporters, persecuted, prosecuted and victimized by “lawfare” by Democrats who stopped at nothing of their efforts to maintain him out of workplace a second time. Donald Trump not solely suffered political warfare, he additionally survived two assassination makes an attempt by people who many imagine have been pushed by the hateful rhetoric espoused by his opponents, together with President Biden, who portrayed the incoming president as harmful to democracy.
The president has additionally stated no one is above the regulation, however evidently that commonplace applies to these whose final title will not be Biden. Name it an early Christmas current from father to son.
Hunter Biden was additionally dealing with large issues associated to his responsible plea on tax fees.
To their credit score, nearly each left-of-center information company reporting on the pardon acknowledged the president had gone again on his vow to not pardon his son.
CNN: “By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly earlier than and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race.”
Los Angeles Occasions: “In June, Biden categorically dominated out a pardon or commutation for his son…”
New York Occasions: “Most of the president’s allies and critics had anticipated him to make use of the distinctive authority vested solely in his workplace, though the president’s spokeswoman had denied for months that Mr. Biden had any intention of doing so.”
NBC Information: “Biden’s plans to pardon his son have been first reported by NBC Information. He had stated publicly a number of occasions that he wouldn’t pardon him.”
Joe Biden is an completed prevaricator. A report from the Home Committee on Oversight and Accountability this previous February confirmed the president “lied to the American folks when he claimed he “didn’t” work together together with his household’s international enterprise associates.” In that report, the committee stated “proof uncovered by way of financial institution information and witness testimony proves Joe Biden interacted with almost all of his son Hunter Biden’s international enterprise associates. President Biden spoke by telephone, attended dinners and conferences, and had espresso together with his son’s international enterprise associates. These people embrace Russian and Kazakhstani oligarchs, a Burisma govt, and Chinese language nationals who collectively funneled thousands and thousands to his son.”
This report successfully demolished the president’s repeated claims he by no means spoke to Hunter about his son’s enterprise dealings. The New York Submit tells a far completely different story, nevertheless. When Joe Biden bowed out of the 2024 marketing campaign this previous summer season, an impeachment inquiry got here to an finish, the newspaper recalled.
Because the elder Biden prepares to depart workplace in about seven weeks, his legacy already in tatters, the Sunday pardon quantities to the icing on a stale cake.
Joe Biden has acquired 4 “Pinocchios” from the Washington Submit reality checker a number of occasions, for mendacity about Republican tax plans to his laughable canard that the Second Modification prevented folks from proudly owning cannons. Politifact has a reasonably prolonged checklist of his fibs, not the least of which has been his repeated declare that the gun business is the one business within the nation with immunity from lawsuits. It’s not true and by no means was, and Joe Biden is aware of it.
So now, Hunter Biden skates on a federal gun conviction for which different folks would possibly do time or at the least have a felony conviction on their information which prohibits them from voting or ever once more proudly owning a firearm.
Maybe the largest falsehood of all of them got here in his pardon message: “For my total profession I’ve adopted a easy precept: simply inform the American folks the reality.”
For such a comment to be credible, it helps if you know the way.
About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, creator of a number of books on the Proper to Preserve & Bear Arms, and previously an NRA-certified firearms teacher.
