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From: suzeeq <suzeeq@imbris.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Biden pardons Hunter despite promise
Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 17:21:28 -0800
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On 12/2/2024 11:45 AM, EGK wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 19:29:15 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 1, 2024 at 9:14:04 PM PST, "suzeeq" <suzeeq@imbris.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 12/1/2024 8:23 PM, Rhino wrote:
>>>
>>>>   Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter despite promising repeatedly to
>>>>   respect the rule of law.
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>> https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/joe-biden-pardons-son-hunter-gun-tax-charges-1.7398369
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>   It wasn't a very narrow pardon either: it was a blanket pardon for
>>>>   anything Hunter Biden did over a 10 year period.
>>>>   
>>>>   He waited until late Sunday evening to announce the pardon, no doubt
>>>>   hoping that no one would notice. I wonder how the media will react? I
>>>>   wonder how Trump will react?
>>>>   
>>> We know Trump's going to blow a gasket. But, if his name was other than
>>> Biden he wouldn't have been sentenced with as strongly as he was.
>>
>> And if his name was anything other than Trump, he never would have been
>> charged with the misdemeanor paperwork crime (that no one in NY history had
>> ever been charged with before), let alone had the prosecutor bootstrap in some
>> federal crime (over which he didn't even have jurisdiction) to evade the
>> statute of limitations and make it a felony, then overcharge it 34 times.
>>
>> No one whose name wasn't Trump would have ever had that happen to them.
>>
>> But I guess using the justice system for political persecution is in the eye
>> of the beholder, isn't it, suzee?
>>
>>> Others with the same convictions have received much lighter sentences if they
>>>
>>> were even prosecuted at all.
>>
>> At least there *were* others with the same convictions in Hunter's case. There
>> were no others with the same convictions as Trump in New York because
>> literally no one in history had ever been charged with such a bullshit made-up
>> crime.
> 
> Hunter wasn't even sentenced yet.

Yes he was. I think for a year in prison.

> Joe was pardoning himself as much as he was Hunter. His blanket pardon
> dating back 10 years means all of Hunter's influence peddling that Joe
> profited from won't matter.
> Waiting for Joe to pardon his brother next.
> 
Probably so, because a Republican DOJ would likely go after him next.