Hunter Biden Pardoned
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So, does Trump have a handy whatabout pardon to compare with this one?
Depends on what you would consider a good comparable.
Charles Kushner? Bannon? Flynn? Roger Stone? Manafort? Blagojevich? Joe Arpaio? The various war criminals?
But if you want perfect comparison, neither Uday nor Qusay Trump were convicted of anything (yet) so he didn’t even have the opportunity.
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Why would President-Elect Trump pardon Blago? Reportedly, he considered it, but didn't.
Just for some perspective, Bill Clinton pardoned about 140 people on his last day, including his brother.
Also, for perspective, he commuted the sentences of the Senate bombers.
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But if you want perfect comparison, neither Uday nor Qusay Trump were convicted of anything (yet) so he didn’t even have the opportunity.
They weren't convicted, let alone indicted. So, it's far from a "perfect comparison."
The various war criminals?
You're talking about Obama, who ordered an extra-judical assassination of a US citizen? He wasn't indicted or convicted either.
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Jim Jordan:
"Democrats said there was nothing to our impeachment inquiry.
If that’s the case, why did Joe Biden just issue Hunter Biden a pardon for the very things we were inquiring about?"
Hunter didn't hold any office from which he could be impeached. He was charged with a gun offense and failure to pay taxes, both of which are crimes of individuals, or spouses, Not father-son pairs. That much should have been obvious to Mr Jordan, and to you.
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If I read that pardon correctly, the entire Ukrainian grift is pardoned as well. So he pardoned himself as well.
Son of a bitch!
Probably not a bad idea. But the claim that Hunter was singled out only because he is my son and not admitting that Trump was similarly singled out is galling hypocrisy.
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The various war criminals?
You're talking about Obama, who ordered an extra-judical assassination of a US citizen? He wasn't indicted or convicted either.
No, Obama didn't pardon any war criminals to my knowledge. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, which is certainly possible. The last days of the Obama administration are a bit of a blur, as most of the news coverage at the time was about Trump's incoming administration.
I'm referring to Trump's pardoning of Eddie Gallagher, Clint Lawrence, Mathew Goldstein, and four Blackwater mercenaries, all of which murdered civilians. The soldiers were convicted by military courts and the Blackwater mercenaries were charged and convicted by GWB's DoJ.