Donald T**** and the MAGA-Republicans have their panties in a bunch, shouting :hypicris because President Biden pardoned his son even though he had previously said he would not. Some few Democats are concerned about the “optics”.
Hunter was guilty of tax evasion and lying on his tax forms in 2018 and 2019. He has since paid the taxes he owed plus interest, and the fines. And he failed to check a box on a Federal application for a firearms purchase stating that he used illegal drugs. He plead guilty to these charges (nb: Hunter did nothing that millions fo other s have done, and for the same reason.).
By the usual and accepted standards, Hunter Biden doesn’t deserve incarceration. Virtually no-one is prosecuted for not checking a box on a Federal form, and tax evaders who pay their back taxes with interest and fines are commonly give non-criminal penalties. It is clear that he was treated differently, and it takes no great stretch of the imagination to comprehend why.
But consider this. We have a 34-count convicted felon who is about to walk into the White House. This man has never acknowledged doing anything wrong, claimed the events which led to the charges never happened and that the trial was a rigged, political hit job.
And I’m thinking that maybe these self-righteous Republicans ought to take a close look in the mirror. The obvious moral dilemma of their desire to lock up the minor repentant criminal and send the unrepentant convicted major criminal to the White House based on political motives is both obvious and compelling.
For these T****azoid MAGAS, it is clear that minor infractions of the law must be punished to the maximum if it involves Democrats, but major criminal conduct and convictions are just fine with them as long as it’s their Lord and Master, Donald T****.
There is a human ,element in this which that has never properly been addressed. A dispassionate look makes it easy to understand why President Biden pardoned his son even after having said more than once that he wouldn’t. Consider for a moment: He lost his baby daughter Naomi when she was just one year old, and his oldest son Beau when he was 46. His earlier assertions to the contrary not withstanding, the President was not about to allow the possibility of his remaining son, Hunter, to languish in jail because of his political opponent’s petty vengeance.
In my opinion, neither the Congressional Republicans nor their sullied leader have any moral standing to pass judgement on Joe Biden, Hunter Biden’s pardon, or on bond between a father and his son.
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