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I appreciate Joe Biden's commitment to the rule of law, but I do hope now that he pulls a Jed Bartlett and issues a Toby Ziegler pardon for Hunter on his final day in office.
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He did it! He Toby Zieglered his son!
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I think one small impropriety — using the benign prerogative to aid his son in a wonderful act of familial compassion — is permissible as the US begins to enter this dark, dark night that I promise will include far worse.
For example, I think it a certainty now that Americans ought steel themselves in preparation for when the traitorous scumbags who participated in the January 6th insurrection against America itself are pardoned en masse.
@rhys it's also very probable that he was a political prisoner. His whole treatment was daring his dad to be a hypocrite.
He would never be released under the new adminstration.
Don't forget, it was his dad that was prosecuting him.
Viewed through that lens, it's really hard to stomach all talk about political persecution or political prison.
No, if anything Hunter was getting levels of privilege that would not have been afforded to most people in his position, from judicial discretion through those really great lawyers through prosecutorial cooperation.
So no, it is not probable that he was a political prisoner. His dad tried to tilt the scales in his favor, and even then his behavior could not overcome his privilege, and his dad had to recognize his guilt and hold him accountable for it.
Right up until he didn't.
