{"id":20148,"date":"2024-12-02T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20148"},"modified":"2024-12-02T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T07:07:55","slug":"hunter-bidens-pardon-shows-rulebook-being-rewritten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=20148","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Biden's pardon shows rulebook being rewritten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joe Biden had repeatedly denied<\/a> that he was going to pardon his son Hunter for his gun and tax evasion convictions or commute what was shaping up to be a substantive prison sentence.<\/p>\n

On the Sunday evening after Thanksgiving \u2013 at a moment when the American public\u2019s attention was decidedly elsewhere \u2013 he announced he had changed his mind<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,\u201d he wrote in a press statement announcing his decision. \u201cIn trying to break Hunter, they\u2019ve tried to break me – and there\u2019s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The president\u2019s explanation might sound familiar to anyone who has listened to Donald Trump rail against America\u2019s system of justice in recent years.<\/p>\n

Trump, as he exited the White House in 2021, issued a series of pardons for his close associates and allies who had been swept up in the multiple criminal investigations that encircled him throughout his presidential term. In doing so, he bypassed established White House procedures for exercising the broad presidential pardon power. And although he was criticised for the action at the time, there were little if any political consequences.<\/p>\n

Biden may be criticised as well \u2013 for breaking his promise and for using his presidential power to protect his son. One Democratic governor, Jared Polis of Colorado, quickly released a statement saying he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d and that the move would \u201ctarnish\u201d the outgoing president\u2019s reputation.<\/p>\n

With Biden\u2019s political career drawing to a close, however, there is little price he will pay for his action. The national attention will quickly shift back to the incoming Trump presidency.<\/p>\n

The rules governing presidential pardoning \u2013 or at the very least the processes and established guardrails that had guided its use \u2013 appear to have been fundamentally and permanently altered. At this point there may be scarce grounds for anyone to complain, no matter on which side of the political aisle they stand.<\/p>\n

The Trump camp was quick to issue a response to the news of the Biden pardon, saying that the president-elect would fix the US justice system and restore due process in his second term.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s something to keep in mind when Trump returns to office, as he is expected to again use his pardoning power to aid associates who have been prosecuted during the Biden presidency \u2013 and to free many of his supporters who have been convicted during the 6 January 2021 assault on the US Capitol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Biden had repeatedly denied that he was going to pardon his son Hunter for his gun and tax evasion convictions or commute what was shaping up to be a substantive prison sentence. On the Sunday evening after Thanksgiving \u2013 at a moment when the American public\u2019s attention was decidedly elsewhere \u2013 he announced he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20148\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}