The Hunter Biden Pardon Was the Right Thing to Do

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There are several diaries just posted in the last few minutes about President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter. This sort of thing happens a lot with breaking news, and I wasn’t going to add one more to the pile. But some of the diaries — and some of the comments — were more about this being a mistake on Biden’s part or how it will now give Trump cover for all kinds of nefarious pardons, so I decided to throw in my three cents as a diary of my own.

There is a highly academic and pedantic response to those arguments: bullshit.

In his statement about it, Biden argued that there would have been no prosecution, or at most there would have been a plea deal, which is standard in these sorts of cases — but the president’s enemies made Hunter a target in order to get at his father.

There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/1/2289654/-The-Hunter-Biden-Pardon-Was-the-Right-Thing-to-Do