Biden Lied About Hunter’s Pardon, But He’s Had Tons of Practice
On his way out the door, President Joe Biden has pardoned his son, Hunter, which he said repeatedly he would not do.
Six months after telling the nation he would not pardon his son, President Joe Biden did exactly that, and reaction from the firearms community is overwhelmingly negative, even though the president’s move was hardly surprising.
Hunter Biden was convicted in June of three federal firearms felonies when a jury took less than three hours to conclude he illegally purchased and possessed a firearm while using illegal drugs and lying about it on a federal Form 4473. There was no small irony in the fact that Joe Biden had supported the laws 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 came through in his statement of justification: “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong.”
The very same arguments might be made about the man who will replace Joe Biden in January, the former president who was, according to his faithful supporters, persecuted, prosecuted and victimized by “lawfare” by Democrats who stopped at nothing in their efforts to keep him out of office a second time. Donald Trump not only suffered political warfare, he also survived two assassination attempts by…