Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son opened the door for blanket amnesty for every January 6 defendant as Biden’s DOJ continues to investigate, charge, incarcerate, and put on trial J6 protesters.
This from declassified.live.
Reaction on both sides is mixed in response to Joe Biden’s sprawling pardon of his son, Hunter.
Claiming his son had been “singled out” and “treated differently” by the Department of Justice and federal judges, Biden not only absolved Hunter of the two criminal convictions for which he was set to be sentenced this month but any crime over a nearly 11-year period:
Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted.
The declaration is now filed with Biden’s DOJ for posterity.
Thanks, Joe. And, by the way, you knucklehead, your rationale for pardoning your derelict son is an indictment of your DOJ and therefore of the corrupt leadership of you and your puppeteer—the queer moslem Kenyan behind the screen.
Miranda Devine, a NYC-based columnist and writer, has detailed how the decade-long international Biden family crime spree will end without legal accountability—including Joe himself.
The pardon represents another lie told by “my word as a Biden” Dementia Joe and, no doubt, foretells of additional pardons—perhaps for his brother Jim and every other relative who benefitted from the family’s global grift.
Dementia Joe, though, has laid the groundwork for President-elect Donald Trump to offer similarly-generous clemency to all January 6 defendants on Day One of his presidency. That is not to say Trump is not already considering such a plan—but Biden’s claims that his own DOJ “selectively” and “unfairly” targeted his son will be “delicious words for J6 pardon-detractors to eat when the time comes.” So too will Biden’s accusations that “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
This from the man whose DOJ not only initiated two investigations into his predecessor, which led to an armed raid of Mar-a-Lago and historic federal criminal indictments against Trump and co-defendants, but whose DOJ also continues to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and imprison Americans involved in protesting the rigged 2020 presidential election.
Dementia Joe’s unprecedented persecution of J6ers has become a rallying cry among the MAGA base; while most Republican political leaders ignored their plight, Trump did not. On the campaign trail, he often promised to pardon the more than 1,500-and-counting Americans ensnared in the most abusive and politically motivated federal prosecution in the DOJ’s history.
A Trump spokeswoman recently said:
[P]ardons would be reviewed on a ‘case-by-case’ basis.
But others suggest a broad-based pardon could be in the works for so-called “nonviolent” offenders convicted or charged with misdemeanors.
[H]ow to handle those convicted of violent charges such as assault on law enforcement present a more complicated political calculation for the new administration, one that may have required a piecemeal approach to ease expected outrage by the media and among lily-livered Republicans in Washington.
Until yesterday.
Trump himself wasted little time before raising the issue of January 6 defendants in a post on Truth Social:
Influencers also flooded X with calls for unequivocal clemency for all J6ers:
Even regime-friendly outlets expressed shock at the broad nature of Biden’s missive.
Politico’s Betsy Woodruff Swan wrote Sunday night:
…Joe Biden’s grant of clemency on Sunday night—an extraordinary political act with extraordinary legal breadth—insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have committed over the past decade.
The closest comparison, Swan noted, was President Gerald Ford’s broad pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974.
Pardon “experts” expressed alarm at Biden’s move and worried how it helps Trump make his case for J6ers.
Samuel Morison, a former lawyer for the DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney, told Swan:
It justifies what Trump wants to do. Now, he was going to do it anyway. But it gives him some political cover.
I think some January 6 pardons are probably coming—at least some, maybe all.
Indeed.
