How it started:
How it's going:
From that Politico report:
We're told the family discussed the issue over the long Thanksgiving weekend in Nantucket, where the Bidens spent the holiday. Word reached senior White House staff on Saturday night that the pardon could be coming. Yesterday, Biden made the decision final and work began on the legal fineries and the statement announcing it.
Even Politico's senior Washington correspondent, Rachel Bade, was confused by this move from Biden, who had repeatedly promised he would not pardon his son.
Make no mistake, this is an absolute 180 degree turn in Biden's position. From the moment Hunter Biden was indicted nearly a year ago until Sunday afternoon, he and his deputies vowed over and over he wouldn't pardon his son -- even after DONALD TRUMP won his bid to return to the White House.
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What that doesn't explain is the sheer breadth of the pardon, which immunizes Hunter Biden from further federal prosecution for any conduct through a nearly 11-year period that ended at midnight -- not only the crimes for which he has been charged.
Hunter was facing sentencing before Christmas for two federal convictions: His June conviction on felony gun charges and his September guilty plea for federal tax crimes.
It not only breaks with standard pardon practice, which is to grant clemency only to those who have at least partially served out their sentences, but takes a place as one of the most sweeping pardons ever granted.
'I have never seen language like this in a pardon document … with the exception of the [RICHARD] NIXON pardon,' said MARGARET LOVE, who served as DOJ's pardon attorney from 1990 to 1997, to Betsy Woodruff Swan last night. 'Even the broadest Trump pardons were specific as to what was being pardoned.'
Joe Biden has repeatedly lied throughout his career, even suspending his 1988 presidential campaign after he was caught plagiarizing.
The one thing that motivates him in life above all else is his family name. His father believed he was of old aristocratic blood and that the family name deserved honor. Biden, Sr's wealthy uncle and godfather employed him and allowed him to indulge himself in the finer things in life.
When Joe's dad lost it all and was forced to move and sell cars to provide for the family, what an imprint that must have made on Joe, Jr.
So while the left-wing world is shocked that Biden would go back on his word and do something so partisan and corrupt ... well, those of us who understand what drives Joe Biden aren't surprised in the least.
The fact that Joe finalized the plan over dinner like any good mobster family is just the cherry on top!
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