Tuesday, December 03, 2024

 

The Hunter Biden Pardon

 


I have some thoughts about the pardon of Hunter Biden. And yesterday I got to talk about it a lot: to the BBC, ABC, PBS, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, a radio show in Ireland and Jana Shortal here at KARE 11.  

It was a very unusual grant, in four ways:

-- First, modern presidents have pardoned family members, but not a child. And Biden is particularly close to his only surviving son.

-- Second, the grant was extraordinarily broad. It covered any federal crime, known or unknown between 2014 and now. The only thing close I know of is Ford's pardon of Nixon, but that was for a shorter period of time.

-- Third, Biden denied he would do so several times, personally and through his press secretary. 

-- Finally, and this really bugs me, the pardon stood alone. Biden could have included Hunter with hundreds of others who are deserving. 

There are still several weeks to do the right thing....


# posted by Mark Osler @ 1:00 AM
Comments:
A truly hope we see a large number of pardons and commutations in the next month.

Re: Hunter
Why 2014? Statute of Limitations in the types of crimes he may have committed? Is this when his spiral into addiction began?

I don't object to the pardon and had hoped this would be something he did if he or Dems lost the election.
# posted by Blogger Christine : 5:51 AM
 
Christine-- He became involved with Burisma, the Ukranian company, in 2014.
# posted by Blogger Mark Osler : 10:39 AM
 
Thanks. I know Beau was already sick at that point. Tbis may be a point in time whenhe was spiraling out of control.
# posted by Blogger Christine : 6:59 PM
 
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