Politics / Of Course Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son OF COURSE Joe Biden Was Right to Pardon His Son People need to stop asking Democrats to play by different rules than Republicans, and they need to stop asking Biden to be a worse father than any of us would be in his place.
President Joe Biden walks out of Nantucket Bookworks with son Hunter Biden, grandson Beau and daughter-in-law Melissa Cohen Biden in Nantucket, Massachusetts, on November 29, 2024.
Ido not believe I have read a worse collection of takes in the weeks since Donald Trump’s reelection than the endless array of white columnists and pundits whining about Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden.
By granting clemency to his son, the President put his family above the American people.
But the institutionalists want to tell me that now he will be “unrestrained” in his use of the pardon power because Biden pardoned his own son?
Of course, Biden is not really using his pardon power “maximally,” and that is the basis for criticism from the left.
That’s even truer in this situation, where Hunter Biden was only being prosecuted and harassed because he is the son of a president. »