True to form, Biden lies about Hunter’s pardon

To the surprise of practically no one, “family man” Joe Biden announced Sunday, after discovering a “miscarriage of justice,” that he had authorized a full pardon for his son Hunter, whom he once called the smartest man he knows.

Hunter did not return the compliment.

That the elder, and impaired, Biden did it was not the surprise, nor the issue. 

The issue was that he had promised several times he would not do it, and in his statement said he made the decision this past weekend. But the rest of his statement doesn’t support that.

Sounding exactly like Donald J. Trump, and with almost the same degree of justification, he said Hunter’s prosecution was politically motivated, that if Hunter were not his son charges would not have been brought. You can read the statement here.

Does Biden think we have his memory problems?

The “political” charges were brought by his  Department of Justice, headed by  Merrick Garland, the man he himself placed in the attorney general’s chair.

Trump claims his prosecutions were brought by his enemies. Hunter’s prosecutions were brought by Biden friends.

Politically motivated or not, the question is this: Is he guilty or not guilty? If there are no consequences for his son, why should there be consequences for anyone’s son?

The elder Biden opened his statement by saying he kept his word to not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and he did not.

He only interfered with the outcome, which he found to be a miscarriage maybe after getting groggy on turkey tryptophan on Thanksgiving.

He is not talking turkey to us. His statement is as filled with stuffing as his earlier false claims of superior achievement in college, rewriting British politician Neil Kinnock’s ideas and background as his own, and claims he was “shot at” in Iraq’s Green Zone. And there were more from the man who called himself a “gaffe machine.”

But this was no gaffe. It was deliberate, intentional, and poorly reasoned.

Toward the end of his statement, Biden writes, “I have followed a simple principle: Just tell the American people the truth.”

That he could write that and not be struck by lightning amazes me. The paper must be asbestos to have not burst into flames.

His statement weakly tries to justify the pardon, and I am disheartened by the many who say they would have done the same thing for their sons.

They authorize a double standard of justice — one for “real” criminals, and another for family members.

Would I have done it? No. And I write that knowing my son reads this blog. As TV detective Tony Baretta used to say, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.”

“No reasonable person who looks at the facts in Hunter’s cases,” Biden writes, “can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.”

So the jury that convicted him on three felony gun counts was not reasonable?  And if you are OK with wiping away these gun charges, you lose your right to complain about other illegal guns “on the street.” And, no, that he was a drug addict is not a valid defense.

Hunter pleaded guilty to the tax charges.

The score: One case, jury finds him guilty. Second case, Hunter admits guilt.

All the cranberry sauce about “unfair” penalties are inconsequential. The dude did it.

Despite what he says, Joe Biden’s actions show that he lied to the American people, and not for the first time.

And maybe not even the last. He still has seven weeks to go.