We haven’t seen a pardon as sweeping as Hunter Biden’s in generations
The “full and unconditional” pardon is aimed at protecting the president’s son from future prosecution by the Trump Justice Department.
2 Dec 2024 ~~ By Betsy Woodruff Swan
Hunter Biden’s pardon looks a lot like Richard Nixon’s.
President 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.
Experts on pardons said they could think of only one other person who has received a presidential pardon so sweeping in generations: Nixon, who was given a blanket pardon by Gerald Ford in 1974.
“I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been charged, with the exception of the Nixon pardon,” said Margaret Love, who served from 1990 to 1997 as the U.S. pardon attorney, a Justice Department position devoted to assisting the president on clemency issues.
“Even the broadest Trump pardons were specific as to what was being pardoned,” Love added.
Joe Biden’s “full and unconditional pardon” of his son is deliberately vague. Donald Trump and his allies have long fixated on the president’s son, and Trump has repeatedly pledged to use his second term to
investigate and prosecute members of the Biden family. Conservative commentators have engaged in parlor-game speculation that Hunter Biden could be charged with bribery, illegal lobbying or other crimes stemming from his foreign business activities and drug addiction.
So rather than merely pardoning his son for the
gun crimes for which he was convicted and the
tax crimes for which he pleaded guilty, the president’s pardon covers all “
offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in” from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024.
Commentary:
So in effect the pardon covers any criminal act that Hunter may have committed during that ten year period which would include treason and murder.
A blanket exemption for family, for anything done (known and unknown) for a decade; is Executive abuse of power.
This doesn’t even begin to touch the “Conflict of Interest” issue. It is complete Nepotism.
Proving beyond any shadow of a doubt Hunter has been a very, very bad boy for those 11 years. Including when Trump was in office.
Just how much treachery with the Ukraine and especially the Chinese was Hunter involved in