Thanks Vicki. I agree. I refer anyone who wants to argue that Biden should not have pardoned Hunter to Heather Cox Richardson's excellent review of exactly why Hunter is one of Trump's top targets. (See today's Letters from an American by Richardson.) You should also read Joyce White Vance's essay in her Civil Discourse blog that explains why she, a former federal prosecutor, and most of her colleagues would not have brought charges against Hunter.
Would this case have been brought at all if Hunter were not Joe Biden's son? Joe Biden doesn't think so, and I'm sure that part of his decision to issue the pardon is a feeling of guilt that his own ambition made Hunter vulnerable to people like Trump who wanted to use him for their own purposes.
You have but to look at Trump's clear intention while he was campaigning and now that he has been elected to see that revenge and retribution are the only reason he ran (along with clearing away the federal charges against him, of course.) The hypocrisy here is not Biden's. It is Trump's. Having lied and cheated throughout his life with absolutely no consequences, Trump wants to persecute others who have never done or even thought of doing, what Trump has already been convicted of doing.
Kash Patel has long been obsessed with prosecuting Hunter Biden as has James Comer, who spent two years trying to find some crime that Joe and Hunter committed and came up completely empty. Patel's comments since being nominated to run the FBI tell you that even if all you were doing was your job, you are now a target. Add to that Elon Musk who has now identified people by name on X who are simply in positions he doesn't like. Those people have been getting death threats.
Adam Serwer's article in the Atlantic and his subsequent book The Cruelty is the Point says it all. Trump is out to harm other people, and he now has almost unlimited power to do so. If Trump was determined to destroy one of your kids, would you not act to save him/her? I would. If someone was aiming a gun at my son, I would take the bullet instead because I'm his mother. If you would not, what kind of parent are you?
Thanks Vicki. I agree. I refer anyone who wants to argue that Biden should not have pardoned Hunter to Heather Cox Richardson's excellent review of exactly why Hunter is one of Trump's top targets. (See today's Letters from an American by Richardson.) You should also read Joyce White Vance's essay in her Civil Discourse blog that explains why she, a former federal prosecutor, and most of her colleagues would not have brought charges against Hunter.
Would this case have been brought at all if Hunter were not Joe Biden's son? Joe Biden doesn't think so, and I'm sure that part of his decision to issue the pardon is a feeling of guilt that his own ambition made Hunter vulnerable to people like Trump who wanted to use him for their own purposes.
You have but to look at Trump's clear intention while he was campaigning and now that he has been elected to see that revenge and retribution are the only reason he ran (along with clearing away the federal charges against him, of course.) The hypocrisy here is not Biden's. It is Trump's. Having lied and cheated throughout his life with absolutely no consequences, Trump wants to persecute others who have never done or even thought of doing, what Trump has already been convicted of doing.
Kash Patel has long been obsessed with prosecuting Hunter Biden as has James Comer, who spent two years trying to find some crime that Joe and Hunter committed and came up completely empty. Patel's comments since being nominated to run the FBI tell you that even if all you were doing was your job, you are now a target. Add to that Elon Musk who has now identified people by name on X who are simply in positions he doesn't like. Those people have been getting death threats.
Adam Serwer's article in the Atlantic and his subsequent book The Cruelty is the Point says it all. Trump is out to harm other people, and he now has almost unlimited power to do so. If Trump was determined to destroy one of your kids, would you not act to save him/her? I would. If someone was aiming a gun at my son, I would take the bullet instead because I'm his mother. If you would not, what kind of parent are you?
Agree. Here’s the link to Richardson’s substack: https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/december-2-2024?r=5hhvl&utm_medium=ios