"PALM BEACH—In a series of scathing Truth Social posts on Tuesday, Donald J. Trump lambasted President Biden for issuing a pardon without being paid for it.
“Pardoning someone for free was an incredibly selfish act,” Trump wrote. “This will lower the market value of every future pardon I give.”
“The framers of the Constitution gave the president pardon power for one reason: to make money,” Trump continued. “I have too much respect for the Constitution to pardon people for free.”
In perhaps his strongest denunciation of Biden’s actions, he added, “Any decent father would have made Hunter ambassador to France.”
Nice response to journalists crowing about how Biden pardoning his son justifies Grump pardoning the Jan 6 perps. The journalistic "bothsidesing" in the election was always predicated on making these kind of preposterous comparisons; Jan 6 was justified payback for the BLM protests, etc.
Biden was right to pardon his son simply to spare him further persecution by Grump's weaponization of the government against his political enemies, which he did 2016-2020 and promises to do in his second term, only worse. And doing so really isn't proof, like some want to suggest, that Jan 6 or stealing national security documents or conspiring to change the outcome of the '20 election were partisan attacks as much as scuttling their prosecution before the '24 election is absolutely proof that republican packing and weaponizing of SCOTUS isn't a threat but for all practical purposes already a done deal.
I only say "for all practical purposes" because we don't know how far SCOTUS will let this go. We only know they already let it go too far.
And it's more evidence, unfortunately, that the media in a vain effort to stay relevant will bend over backwards to accommodate Grump's fake news frame. Grump pardoned Manafort and Stone for their crimes related to the 2016 election, for just two instances. (There are many more!) Biden pardoned his son for buying a gun while lying about his drug addictions. No treason or election interference. And not comparable but the NY Times hasn't figured this out.
Or what about the nepotism angle? Grump pardoned his son-in-law's father, guilty of big financial fraud, in his first term and named him ambassador to France for his second term. Biden is trying to spare his son being persecuted for the next four years for his, Joe's, political ambitions. Seems compassionate to me, and a principle he ought to extend to other obvious targets of Grump's illiberal wrath.
Democracy does depend on voters being able to discern basic differences. Crooked Hilary was never as crooked as Grump, the Biden Crime Family was never as criminal as Grump's, by orders of magnitude. The failure to recognize this obvious distinction, as in the election, jeopardizes the American democratic experiment.
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