Members of the GOP, both inside the government, the media, and activists community, aren’t the only ones livid at President Joe Biden for giving his troubled baby boy a “get-out-of-jail-free” card in the form of a presidential pardon. It seems there are quite a few Democrats, high-ranking ones, who have had it with the corruption of Biden and the current administration. Could it be that people are growing wiser to the ways in which liberals try to keep us divided from each other? I certainly hope that’s the case.
Maybe not being able to stomach the first son, Hunter, will bring us all together?
A report published by Trending Politics News says that Rep. Pete Aguilar, a Democrat hailing from the state of Texas and the current chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, chatted recently with the mainstream media where he revealed he was “disappointed” to see the president, a fellow member of the Democratic Party, going back on his word and issuing a pardon for Hunter despite saying initially he would not get involved.
“As a father, I understand it and I get it, but as someone who has spent a lot of time at this podium talking about the importance of respecting the rule of law, it’s disappointing. And so we didn’t have a robust conversation about this in the caucus, but those are my personal beliefs. The president said publicly he wasn’t going to give a pardon, and then he did. So that part — that part’s disappointing. I believed him when he said he wasn’t,” Aguilar explained.
Aguilar, who will begin his sixth two-year term in 2025, is third in line behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), underscoring how corrosive the pardoning of Hunter Biden has been to the Democratic coalition. His comments came after other prominent party members denounced the decision to give Hunter blanket immunity for a period spanning 11 years and exonerating him from a conviction on felony gun charges and an active trial on multi-million dollar tax fraud.
“President Biden’s decision put personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all,” Democratic Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) commented on Monday in a post that was shared on X, Newsweek reported. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) also remarked, “President Biden’s decision to pardon his son was wrong. A president’s family and allies shouldn’t get special treatment. This was an improper use of power, it erodes trust in our government, and it emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests.” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) elaborated. “If you defended the 34x felon, who committed sexual assault, stole national security documents, and tried running a coup on his country … you can sit out the Hunter Biden pardon discussion,” he continued.
President Biden made a trip to Angola on Tuesday where he tapped dance around questions about the pardon like Danny Kaye in “White Christmas.” Oh, and after that performance he must have been really tuckered out. He fell asleep in the economic summit.
Aboard Air Force One, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back forcefully against accusations she lied for a year when insisting Biden had no plan to pardon Hunter and came to the decision only over the weekend. “One thing the president believes is to always be truthful with the American people,” Jeane-Pierre said, Fox News reported. She repeated several times the president “wrestled with [the decision]” while decrying “war politics” that led to Hunter being “singled out politically” in his prosecution.
In a scathing rebuke, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who oversaw Hunter’s federal tax case, issued a five-page rationale for why Biden’s pardon and critique of the justice system rings hollow. “The President’s own attorney general and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people,” Scarsi wrote, according to Newsweek. “In short, a press release is not a pardon. The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”
In a statement to the New York Post provided by the DOJ, the agency revealed they were stunned by Biden’s move. Usually, when dealing with high-profile pardons, the administration contacts the Office of the Pardon Attorney for evaluation. That didn’t happen this time. Sources close to the president say the office would have told him not to issue the pardon.