U.S. President Joe Biden pardons his son Hunter on tax and gun charges despite previously saying he would not. @AssociatedPress reports:
@NewsDesk @AssociatedPress as his father with a son charged with relatively minor crimes, it makes sense.
@veedems It's important to keep in mind that Biden was in charge of the branch of government that prosecuted and then gained the conviction for his own son.
And then he said he would absolutely not pardon his son.
We can't excuse what a mess, what an utter mess, Biden was. If he had done a better job as president there's no way Trump would have been reelected.
You say it makes sense. No. No it doesn't. And if the Biden administration had made more sense we wouldn't be in this mess.
Let's call that out. Let's remember this guy as a disaster that he was.
Except, no that's not quite right. These infractions were judged to be so substantial that they needed to be prosecuted at a very high level. The administration already determined that significant resources needed to be poured into prosecuting these infractions.
Biden's administration already concluded that these were not minor infractions.
AND MORE IMPORTANTLY (yeah, my voice goes up because, wow) Biden pardoned Hunter for anything else as well, not just these things that you call minor infractions, but also anything else at all that he did.
That's incredible!
@volkris @NewsDesk @AssociatedPress I say it makes sense because the charges are for minor infractions (relative to the world) and it’s his son. I would do the same exact thing if I was in that position.
We clearly disagree on the Biden presidency, so I won’t debate that with you.