Tuesday, December 03, 2024

OpEd: Biden's Pardon of Hunter Lowers Bar

President Joe Biden's bombshell pardon of his son Hunter, after saying for years he would not grant the younger Biden clemency, has reignited debate over the scope of presidential pardon powers.

Posted by LampLighter at 11:32 AM | 34 COMMENTS | permalink

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... Amid the fallout from the pardon announced in a statement on Sunday night, the question of whether the sitting president can issue self-pardon has resurfaced. No president has attempted to pardon himself while in office, though President-eklect Donald Trump once claimed he had the "absolute right" to do so.

"As has been stated by numerous legal scholars, I have the absolute right to PARDON myself, but why would I do that when I have done nothing wrong?," Trump tweeted in 2018, raising questions about whether he could pardon himself after leaving office"a step he ultimately did not take.

With Trump set to return to the White House next month, he would be given another chance to issue such a pardon. He will become the first sitting president convicted of a felony"34 counts of falsifying business records in New York"and faces additional legal cases, including indictments over alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia and federal court, that are in various states of limbo post-election. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 09:06 PM

What a joke... Trump doesn't see any bars to his behavior, much less care what height they might be.

Whatever he was going to do with Pardons, he will do regardless of what anyone else had done.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-02 09:58 PM

What a joke... Trump doesn't see any bars to his behavior

Exactly. The idea that pardoning Hunter makes a tiny bit of difference to what Lewzer was going to do anyway is ludicrous.

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-02 10:02 PM

@#3 ... ludicrous ...

Yuo.

A false equivalency.

#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 10:11 PM

It has been entertaining reading a bunch of Trumpers, who voted a felon into the White House, complain about the rule of law.

Joe Biden just saved the American taxpayer a ton of money republicans would have burnt through attempting to prosecute Hunter Biden for nothing.

What a pathetic party the GOP is.

#5 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-02 10:15 PM

saved the American taxpayer a ton of money republicans would have burnt through attempting to prosecute

They will burn through it anyway. There will be a criminal case against anyone who is or has been a registered Democrat. Well, other than Lewzer and his brood.

#6 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-02 10:20 PM

Trump will personally funnel taxpayer money into his properties and businesses. Just like he did last time.

The only luck this nation has is for Donny Fats to kick the bucket.

The GOP will fall apart without him.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-02 10:30 PM

@#7 ... "will?" ...

Or has?

Donald Trump's February 2020 trip to Las Vegas funneled over $12k to Trump Hotel (2021)
www.citizensforethics.org

... Trump International Hotel Las Vegas charged the Secret Service $12,368.66 during a three night trip to the West Coast in February 2020, according to records obtained by CREW from a Freedom of Information Act request. The receipt adds to a growing public tally of taxpayer money spent at Trump properties during his presidency, a sum that continues to balloon even after his departure.

During the trip, Trump spoke in California, Arizona, and Colorado. Instead of staying locally, Trump returned to Las Vegas each evening to stay at his own hotel, likely racking up an estimated $1.1 million in taxpayer-funded Air Force One trips. When asked why he didn't find more convenient accommodations, Trump blamed the Secret Service, telling reporters "the schedule is set by the Secret Service. We do what they want us to." An email from the Department of Homeland Security to CREW said there are no records showing that the Secret Service prefered Trump's hotel.

This spending adds to a larger body of evidence showing how President Trump used the presidency to pour taxpayer money into his businesses. ...


#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-02 10:44 PM

I did state, "Just like he did last time."

What you posted being one of the numerous examples.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-02 11:04 PM

What makes you think the article is an "OpEd?"

#10 | Posted by et_al at 2024-12-03 12:00 AM

@#10 ... What makes you think the article is an "OpEd?" ...

A good question.

As I was posting the article, I pondered that exact question.

My answer to the question you pose?

It was a toss-up for me.

So, I decided to put the "OpEd" appellation on the topic.

Is it an OpEd? I dunno ....

#11 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-12-03 01:14 AM

As I was posting the article, I pondered that exact question.

Perhaps it was the references and quotes from Jonathan Turley, one of Dinger's Op-Ed authors of choice?

#12 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-12-03 01:48 AM

Anyone poo pooing over the pardon can -----.

Goober Comer was salivating at re-opening the investigations of Hunter in 2025.

The bar for the presidency was tossed into the trash heap on November 5th. Dotards junk drawer of sexual assaulters and criminals for 2.0 confirmed that.

#13 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-03 07:46 AM

Jeff Tiedrich
Dec 3

"Hunter Biden has Broken the Media's Brains

Here's a fun double standard to which the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press hold our political parties:

Democrats must walk a narrow ethical path, and never stray one inch from it. they're expected to kowtow to every demand the media makes. Joe Biden is expected to run a letter-perfect presidency. Kamala Harris was expected to run a flawless campaign. the slightest deviation, and the media will blow it up into a weeks-long scandal.

Republicans, on the other hand, are given a free pass to do whatever the ---- they want. lie? no problem. cheat? go for it, homies. protect a sex-trafficking predator within their midst? hey, we wrote one strongly-worded editorial. what more can we do?

And then there's that Very Special Boy himself, Little Donny Convict. he could literally tear the Constitution in pieces and use the shreds to wipe his ass, and the press would just shrug their shoulders. look, that's just Donny being Donny. it's just the way it is.

Right now, the press is acting as if there were only one story worth covering: Joe Biden's dastardly pardon of his son, Hunter."


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here's a fun double standard to which the worthless scribblers of the corporate-controlled press hold our political parties:

Democrats must walk a narrow ethical path, and never stray one inch from it. they're expected to kowtow to every demand the media makes. Joe Biden is expected to run a letter-perfect presidency. Kamala Harris was expected to run a flawless campaign. the slightest deviation, and the media will blow it up into a weeks-long scandal.

Republicans, on the other hand, are given a free pass to do whatever the ---- they want. lie? no problem. cheat? go for it, homies. protect a sex-trafficking predator within their midst? hey, we wrote one strongly-worded editorial. what more can we do?

and then there's that Very Special Boy himself, Little Donny Convict.

he could literally tear the Constitution in pieces and use the shreds to wipe his ass, and the press would just shrug their shoulders. look, that's just Donny being Donny. it's just the way it is.

right now, the press is acting as if there were only one story worth covering: Joe Biden's dastardly pardon of his son, Hunter."

www.jefftiedrich.com

#14 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-03 11:44 AM

I need as new Editor!!

#15 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-03 11:45 AM

As if any parent would willingly have their kid face 25 years in prison for this sort of thing.

#16 | Posted by censored at 2024-12-03 12:02 PM

Of all the crap that Trump has gotten away with. This is small potatoes in comparison. Just sayin

#17 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-03 12:05 PM

Given that Trump's new hires are made for their Vengeance Value on his enemies... Biden would have been a fool to have left his son hanging squarely in the field of fire.

#18 | Posted by Corky at 2024-12-03 12:07 PM

Another day is passed and I still consider the Hunter pardon great. We Americans need to start protecting one another. All you Orange Hillbillies won't.

#19 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-03 12:15 PM

A twice impeached convicted criminal was just elected POTUS.

Yeah. Pretty sure that bar can't go much lower.

Tho it's pretty much guaranteed that Trumpy and his cult of maga maroons will certainly try!

#20 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-03 12:18 PM

Biden would have been a fool to have left his son hanging squarely in the field of fire.

#18 | POSTED BY CORKY

And not a very good father.

#21 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-03 12:19 PM

Another day is passed and I still think the idea of Biden giving blanket pardons to a few thousand or so Americans is great----anyone who might appear on the fascist hit list.

We Americans need to start protecting one another. You Orange Hillbillies won't.

#22 | Posted by Zed at 2024-12-03 12:21 PM

"Democrats must walk a narrow ethical path, and never stray one inch from it. they're expected to kowtow to every demand the media makes. Joe Biden is expected to run a letter-perfect presidency. Kamala Harris was expected to run a flawless campaign. the slightest deviation, and the media will blow it up into a weeks-long scandal."

Yep. So true.

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-03 12:21 PM

Biden would have been a fool to have left his son hanging squarely in the field of fire.

#18 | POSTED BY CORKY

No man is above the law
- joe Biden.

If he's guilty he's guilty, not sure what politics has to do with the DoJ.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-03 01:31 PM

#23 Those are Lumpers rules, seems reasonable they should have to live by them.

#25 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-03 01:32 PM

What makes you think the article is an "OpEd?"
#10 | Posted by et_al

Yes this is a critical rebuttal.

#26 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-03 01:34 PM

www.thedailybeast.com

Other presidents have pardoned family members. Biden isn't the first.

#27 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-12-03 01:47 PM

If he's guilty he's guilty, not sure what politics has to do with the DoJ.

#24 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

So.

You are either a liar or a fool.

But most likely both.

#28 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-12-03 01:58 PM

He's a troll.

Has been since day one when he kept exclaiming to be an "open boarders, liberal" who was very upset with democrats for not enforcing border policy.

Later on he discovered he's a "Chinese immigrant" who was upset that Democrats weren't protecting Asian immigrants.

Overall, that poster has proven to be nothing more than a waste of time.

#29 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-12-03 02:03 PM

We know that Trump and Republican policy can be described in one phrase:

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Blanket pardon everyone, f the legacy media, we know which side they have picked. Who cares what they think and frankly who cares what Republicans pretend to think. Go ahead and clutch those pearls.

#30 | Posted by dibblda at 2024-12-03 11:16 PM

As I said in another thread, this is what a plurality of American voters have voted for. Can't really complain whether Biden or Trump does stuff like this now.

#31 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-12-04 06:13 AM

I cannot think of one good reason that the President gets to pardon anyone. Any President, any administration.

#32 | Posted by Hughmass at 2024-12-04 06:50 AM

Lower the bar?

The orange clown dug a pit, threw the bar into it, filled the pit with gasoline and lit it on fire and took a big crap on the ashes.

Go ahead media...clutch your pearls. That's all you good for now.

No man is above the law
- joe Biden.

If he's guilty he's guilty, not sure what politics has to do with the DoJ.

#24 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-12-03 01:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

Your commentary on anyone breaking the law is a useless as tits on bull.

#33 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-12-04 12:21 PM

definitely the wrong move and message.
also, definitely understandable, what with the Trumps coming
back to town.

as a father, I can see why he did it.
as a citizen in a country that used to be a Democracy,
I don't agree with his decision.

#34 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-12-04 01:07 PM

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