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Trump slams Hunter Biden’s presidential pardon as an ‘an abuse and miscarriage of Justice’

Donald Trump was quick to react to news of Hunter Biden’s presidential pardon on Sunday night, blasting the decision as “an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.”

In a short post to his social media platform less than an hour after the official announcement, the president mused over pardons for those convicted in the violent insurrection on January 6 2021.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” he wrote.

Many commentators have speculated that Trump will pardon many of the people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol in 2021 as soon as he returns to office in January.

More than 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the incident, during which Trump whipped a group of his supporters into a frenzy nearly four years ago.

Trump launched his general election campaign in March by not merely trying to rewrite the history of that riot, but positioning the violent siege and failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House.

As part of that, he called the rioters “unbelievable patriots” and promised to help them “the first day we get into office.

As president, Trump can pardon anyone convicted in federal court, District of Columbia Superior Court or in a military court-martial. He can stop the continued prosecution of rioters by telling his attorney general to stand down.

“I am inclined to pardon many of them,” Trump said on his social media platform in March when announcing the promise. “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

In a statement the president said that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Justice Department and that he hoped the American people would understand his decision as a father.

The pardon comes less than two weeks ahead of Hunter’s sentencing on December 12 for his conviction on federal gun charges back in June. He was also set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on December 16, after pleading guilty in September to federal tax evasion charges.

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by Anonymousreply 77December 3, 2024 5:20 AM

HA!!

Says the guiltiest motherfucking cunting CRIMINAL who ever CRIMNALED!

He can take his indignation and shove THAT and his DEPENDS up his stinking shit hole.

Fucking PIG.

by Anonymousreply 1December 2, 2024 6:12 AM

Who gives a flying fuck what Trump says.

After all, Trump is about to pardon all the Jan 6th insurrectionists who smashed up the Capital and would have killed Pence and Pelosi if they had been able to find them. And Trump encouraged them all to do it like winding up a toy.

It's a case of Trump saying - I can and will do anything I want BUT if someone else does anything I don't like then it's the end of the world.

He can go fuck himself. This was the excellent trolling from Biden. He should use those new immunity powers to do some other interesting stuff. Maybe Trump will have a stroke if we're all lucky. Not enough to kill him - just enough to make him mute, drooling and wheelchair bound so he can't be the President and has to watch everyone else take power. That would be poetic justice and likely kill him.

by Anonymousreply 2December 2, 2024 6:17 AM

[quote] He should use those new immunity powers to do some other interesting stuff.

I want Biden to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices to 15 and then stack the court with Liberals!

by Anonymousreply 3December 2, 2024 6:21 AM

Trump also said all the legal charges and court cases against him were "an abuse and miscarriage of justice and a Biden Justice Department political witch hunt"...

by Anonymousreply 4December 2, 2024 6:23 AM

Trump's kids made millions off of Chinese trademarks while he was in office. Jared Kushner sold this country out to Saudi Arabia for 2 billion!!

Jared's multiple crimes makes Hunter's look less than jaywailking.

by Anonymousreply 5December 2, 2024 6:25 AM

^^As much as we all find Drump so hateful, it might someday be revealed that Jared Kushner's crimes are far more prolific. Jared's international ties was the major reason Drump was installed as POTUS.

They didn't want Drump in there so much as they needed Jared to bring all the syndicate heads together. Why do you think he could never get an official security clearance?

And who here believes Jared's marriage to Ivanka was just by chance? It was anything but a love match, not romantically anyway!

by Anonymousreply 6December 2, 2024 6:31 AM

[quote] Jared's international ties was the major reason Drump was installed as POTUS.

Explain, please.

by Anonymousreply 7December 2, 2024 6:36 AM

Ha, ha, ha.

by Anonymousreply 8December 2, 2024 6:40 AM

Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Both Republicans and Democrats are so fake. It’s not about morality, it’s football teams trying to win.

I hate it all.

by Anonymousreply 9December 2, 2024 6:41 AM

Boo hoo.

by Anonymousreply 10December 2, 2024 6:53 AM

Looking forward to when France makes his daughter’s pardoned felon father-in-law persona non grata as American Ambassador and he has to scamper home with his tail between his legs.

Now that will be some meltdown!

What a country.

by Anonymousreply 11December 2, 2024 6:56 AM

I really don't care, do you?

by Anonymousreply 12December 2, 2024 7:02 AM

People have forgotten the cast of felons that Trump pardoned on his way out the door in his first administrations. (I think that was partly based upon how much money they had family members stuff in DJT's Depends as he was packing up to leave. )

by Anonymousreply 13December 2, 2024 7:11 AM

I am so happy Joe pardoned Hunter. He needs to pardon everyone who worked at any point to prosecute Dump...EVERYONE!

Trump pardoned his in-law Kushner and will make him an Ambassador. Embarassing!

by Anonymousreply 14December 2, 2024 7:24 AM

Democrats have to be perfect, Republicans can be lawbreaking lying, convicted felons and its' a fair comparison in their little minds.

by Anonymousreply 15December 2, 2024 7:29 AM

Trump being allowed back in the White House is "an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.”

by Anonymousreply 16December 2, 2024 7:30 AM

Has Drumpf lost weight? Is he dying?!

by Anonymousreply 17December 2, 2024 7:31 AM

Trump's comments are boring and predictable.

by Anonymousreply 18December 2, 2024 7:34 AM

MAGA using this as an excuse all over the internet to free Jan 6th felons. As if Dump was not going to do that already. The big difference is Hunter is one guy not thousands and Hunter never hurt or attacked anyone unlike the 100 cops where were injured and one murdered.

by Anonymousreply 19December 2, 2024 7:39 AM

R15 Democrats have to give up this idea that they can "win" by virtue of getting the GOP followers to see that they are "right" - it's never going to happen. This isn't a rational debate where people can be won over.

by Anonymousreply 20December 2, 2024 7:57 AM

Well Trump has a point though — you shouldn’t be using the pardon power to benefit family connections.

You know, like Trump did for Jared’s father, Charles?

by Anonymousreply 21December 2, 2024 8:11 AM

R21 I have to agree. It's an abuse of power, whomever does it.

by Anonymousreply 22December 2, 2024 8:17 AM

Biden has not made Hunter some ambassador to France after being pardoned. Apples = Apples not the same.

by Anonymousreply 23December 2, 2024 8:21 AM

It's mind boggling how Trump is just so lacking in self-awareness.

I'm no doctor, but he must have the absolutely WORST case of NPD in the history of the world.

Does he even listen to himself? Does he realize that HE is a fucking CRIMINAL, himself???

by Anonymousreply 24December 2, 2024 8:38 AM

You guys cant ever just deal with an issue. You immediately just compare one bad deed to something the other guy did. Forget about Trump. Just deal with the fact Joe pardoned his son. From my experience, parents who literally gave their kids a get out of jail card were not good parents. We need tough love sometimes. Please stop dealing with events by dragging in what the other guy did...its not an excuse..its a deflection. The excuse of "Oh im sorry he beat that guy up but that other guy did way worse" is ridiculous. Its becoming Exhausting. Deal with the facts in hand. I know..I'll MARY myself .

by Anonymousreply 25December 2, 2024 9:46 AM

OMG. Trump should SHUT UP.

by Anonymousreply 26December 2, 2024 10:13 AM

Hunter the gift that keeps on giving,

by Anonymousreply 27December 2, 2024 10:20 AM

R26 Exactly. It’s only okay when HE does it!

by Anonymousreply 28December 2, 2024 10:22 AM

I only wish Biden could use his presidential immunity to somehow prevent any J6 pardons.

by Anonymousreply 29December 2, 2024 10:24 AM

R25, STFU, you idiot. You’ve OBVIOUSLY never followed this and know FUCK ALL about it.

JUST SHUT UP. IDIOT.

by Anonymousreply 30December 2, 2024 10:32 AM

Fuck off, R25. This is about saying FU to MAGATS. Time to stop trying to reach across the aisle. I’m glad Biden didn’t high roads this and did what Dump would do.

by Anonymousreply 31December 2, 2024 10:36 AM

If Trump was going to say anything, it should’ve been, “As a father, I understand,” and move on.

Talking about miscarriages of justice when the federal criminal case of the century was just dismissed - without prejudice - plus the documents case which was in appeal but if left to stand would’ve invalidated the case against Hunter Biden anyway is JUST INSANE.

The American people and our country have been dealt a grave injustice and he’s going on about the rule of law?!!

MAGA is insane.

by Anonymousreply 32December 2, 2024 10:37 AM

And then Trump is going to pardon 700+ violent criminals who attacked our capital, law enforcement and tried to overturn an election result. Sure, Jan.

by Anonymousreply 33December 2, 2024 10:39 AM

R11, unfortunately, I think it’s more likely that Charles Kushner will be permitted entry into France but will be persona non grata amongst the French. So the U.S. Embassy there will only be a hangout for fascists and criminals.

by Anonymousreply 34December 2, 2024 10:43 AM

I mean, it’s good though, isn’t it, R19, if it kicks up a controversy and forces people to really pay attention and engage in the argument so they understand what Trump is about to do with the J6 rioters and also what really happened to Hunter Biden? If it gains traction, it’s an argument that MAGA cannot win.

Probably not going to stop anything but it casts a shadow and uses up political capital Trump doesn’t have.

by Anonymousreply 35December 2, 2024 10:46 AM

Ultimately, R22, it’s nothing new. Bush 41 pardoned his son Neil for serious financial crimes. I don’t Neil was ever even prosecuted.

Biden tried to make good and let the system with but MAGA corrupted the system. He was absolutely right to pardon Hunter. My only surprise is that he did it so soon but I’m glad he did.

by Anonymousreply 36December 2, 2024 10:50 AM

*I don’t think Neil was ever even prosecuted

*Biden tried to let the system work…

by Anonymousreply 37December 2, 2024 10:53 AM

[quote]It’s nothing new. Bush 41 pardoned his son Neil for serious financial crimes. I don’t Neil was ever even prosecuted.

This. All presidents -- at least as far back as I can recall -- use the pardon power to absolve personal connections and donors of crimes (along with addressing some actual miscarriages of justice). Clinton pardoning Marc Rich made my blood boil, back when I was young and naive about politics.

by Anonymousreply 38December 2, 2024 11:19 AM

[quote] Forget about Trump. Just deal with the fact Joe pardoned his son.

Oh please, stop trying to gaslight this connection. It's not just random parents letting their kids get out of jail free. This was a highly political issue where Hunter was investigated for 5 years BY A TRUMP prosecutor. The crime of lying on a gun app about drug use almost never been prosecuted for that single issue unless there was another crime associated with it such as armed robbery or a murder.

So no, you cant just say stop comparing to Trump when it's directly linked to his situation.

by Anonymousreply 39December 2, 2024 12:14 PM

I may be old school but I do not think crack addicts should be able to purchase a gun legally. But it must be almost impossible to prove they were crack addicts at the time of purchase unless they is an arrest record or a conviction on file.

Or unless of course someone is dumb enough to announce to the public they bought a gun when they were a crack addict.

That person who could not keep their mouth shut should be arrested for stupidity.

by Anonymousreply 40December 2, 2024 12:23 PM

Frankly, an awful lot of people shouldn't be buying guns R40. But they are.

by Anonymousreply 41December 2, 2024 12:41 PM

I’m not falling for the rage bait. You just know behind closed doors even Trump knows he helped to bring one of the biggest fuck-ups into this world and this easily could have happened to him during his first term.

Jr. isn’t even hiding the coke use this time around.

by Anonymousreply 42December 2, 2024 12:50 PM

Everyone knew that pardon was coming. Biden decided he needed to lie about the pardon coming because there was an election and votes to worry about.

We sort of lose our indignation rights when trump does this for those close to him if we are the least bit honest.

But it’s politics being honest is kind of stupid

by Anonymousreply 43December 2, 2024 1:01 PM

Curses! Foiled again!

by Anonymousreply 44December 2, 2024 1:03 PM

[bold] may be old school but I do not think crack addicts should be able to purchase a gun legally.

And yet many of your old school friends had no problem buying guns as alcoholics. Probably the most common drug involved in gun shootings.

by Anonymousreply 45December 2, 2024 1:21 PM

What r30 said a million times.

[quote] Democrats have to give up this idea that they can "win" by virtue of getting the GOP followers to see that they are "right" - it's never going to happen. This isn't a rational debate where people can be won over.

Thank you, r20.

Reading your words has been the cold slap in the face I needed to get out of the depression I've felt since the election. Seriously.

You reminded me of why John Kerry lost. It's a variation on what you posted, but the principle is the same.

Kerry didn't respond to the Swift Boat smears because he relied on American voters to judge that the Republicans had gone too far by sullying a US Combat veteran.

Bad move. Americans were still skittish and traumatized by 9/11 and when Kerry didn't defend himself, they asked themselves, "If he won't defend himself, why would I believe he'll defend me from another terrorist attack?"

I'm convinced that is one of the main reasons he lost.

I envy Repugs their ruthless, mean streak. They realized a long time ago that Americans are basically stupid, irrational and vulnerable to exploitation via any false phantom you put before them.

And then they operate from that premise politically and win.

But it's the Democrats who are accused of elitism, "looking down" on the white working class.

Hell, if anything, the Democrats to their political peril, have granted too much credit to American voters.

by Anonymousreply 46December 2, 2024 1:24 PM

What then R45 is the Dems call for 2028 as they attempt to win back the house senate and WH?

Crack addicts should be able to buy guns or those that drink booze should not be able to?

My guess is neither but then I thought Harris was going to win and trump would go to jail.

by Anonymousreply 47December 2, 2024 1:26 PM

R15 Yeah but I thought Dems didn’t like MAGA cause they were the bad guys? So if it’s about being bad is OK then what’s with the big battle? Makes no sense!

by Anonymousreply 48December 2, 2024 1:45 PM

A person who is convicted of 34 felonies and escapes paying for his crimes by becoming the president of the United States doesn’t know shit about justice. Or honor. Or dignity. Or noblesse oblige. Or decency.

And he drags the entire nation down with him.

But what he doesn’t get to do is slag off on his fellow game player and call what that man does a wrong and expect anyone to respect his bullshit outrage.

by Anonymousreply 49December 2, 2024 1:46 PM

[quote] Not enough to kill him - just enough to make him mute, drooling and wheelchair bound so he can't be the President and has to watch everyone else take power. That would be poetic justice and likely kill him.

President JD Vance is a terrifying prospect

by Anonymousreply 50December 2, 2024 1:49 PM

He will now totally use this as an excuse when he pardons the J6 insurrectionists.

by Anonymousreply 51December 2, 2024 1:56 PM

Miss Carriage is calling the kettle black.

by Anonymousreply 52December 2, 2024 2:03 PM

Winners dance in the street with joy R49. Winners make the rules and losers bitch when they do. It’s Darwin at work

Sucks to be on the losing team

by Anonymousreply 53December 2, 2024 2:13 PM

We live in a corrupt country and no one can fix it. I have grown to expect it and becoming upset or alarmed by it is no way to spend the next 4 years. The only power regular people have is to vote. After that, what are you going to do?

by Anonymousreply 54December 2, 2024 2:13 PM

R54 what countries do you see as being not corrupt?

by Anonymousreply 55December 2, 2024 2:21 PM

He's just mad that he won't be able to lean on some government crony to have Hunter sent to ADX Florence. You know he was planning something nasty for the big-dicked rascal.

by Anonymousreply 56December 2, 2024 2:23 PM

[quote][R21] I have to agree. It's an abuse of power, whomever does it.

..." whoever does it."

by Anonymousreply 57December 2, 2024 2:32 PM

[quote]He will now totally use this as an excuse when he pardons the J6 insurrectionists.

Oh no! Trump is going to do something that he was going to do anyway, with or without an excuse! If Joe hadn't played into his hands and given him this excues, Trump would have never been able to get away with it! Curses! Foiled again!

by Anonymousreply 58December 2, 2024 2:41 PM

Everybody knows the entire reason for this whole prosecution of Hunter was 100% politics. It was absolutely a malicious prosecution. If it weren't, it either would have been dropped completely or easily and quickly settled with a plea deal, especially when the back taxes were paid, and nobody really gives a fuck if he lied on a gun application. This was what pardons were actually designed for, when the judiciary has decided to become relentless assholes for purely partisan reasons.

I would actually like to see Trump and his cult members make that case regarding the Jan 6 traitors. Let them state clearly that they believe trying to steal an election for Trump, even through violent rampaging, is no true crime.

by Anonymousreply 59December 2, 2024 2:53 PM

Trump wanted to pardon Hunter himself. Biden robbed him of his dick swinging moment

by Anonymousreply 60December 2, 2024 2:55 PM

Trump’s dick wiggles, it doesn’t swing.

by Anonymousreply 61December 2, 2024 3:24 PM

Abraham Lincoln pardoned his wife's sister. George H W Bush pardoned his son. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother. Donald Trump pardoned his son-in-law's father and is now saying he'll be the next ambassador to France.

This just seems like a nothing burger to me.

by Anonymousreply 62December 2, 2024 3:53 PM

[quote] And then Trump is going to pardon 700+ violent criminals who attacked our capital, law enforcement and tried to overturn an election result.

And the media will let him get away with it, without printing a word of opposition.

And Republicans and MAGATS will cheer him on!

by Anonymousreply 63December 2, 2024 4:10 PM

While there are absolutely tons of precedent for this - which is why it’s stupid for Democrats to get their titties in a twist here, as if they haven’t dumped on Biden (the best President of my lifetime and I was born during LBJ’s administration) - people are missing the REAL question, that should be answered:

Has a Presidential family member ever been so egregiously used by the opposition as a political pawn before?

I think the answer is no. Most previous recipients committed actual crimes.

Of course no one is above the law but that also means everybody should be treated the same and no one else has ever even been indicted for the gun application charge - which is already so hypocritical of the gun lovin’ MAGA party - but he also resolved his tax issue to the satisfaction of the IRS and was treated just like anybody else.

There’s no reason why Biden should sacrifice his only surviving son to MAGA bloodlust.

by Anonymousreply 64December 2, 2024 4:27 PM

[italic]Trump will not be able to undo the pardon when he takes office. And its sweeping nature means the Trump Justice Department will not be able to reopen the long-running criminal probe of the president’s son, according to Samuel Morison, a lawyer focused on clemency who spent 13 years in the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney.

Like Love, Morison said the only comparably broad pardon he could think of was the one that went to Nixon.

“It is an extraordinarily broad grant,” he said.

While the sweeping nature of the Hunter Biden pardon is almost without peer in modern American history, in another respect it does mimic a recent precedent started by Trump himself.

In Trump’s first term, he sometimes justified pardons of his political allies by saying they were the victims of unfair prosecution — a posture that broke norms. Past presidents, Morison said, had not generally claimed that pardon recipients were victims of miscarriages of justice; instead, they tended to emphasize that pardon recipients had accepted responsibility for their actions.

“It is to maintain trust in the criminal justice system,” Morison added.

But Trump deviated from that norm — and on Sunday, Joe Biden followed. He justified the pardon by saying his son had been unfairly “singled out.”

“I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice,” the president said in a statement that accompanied the pardon.

Trump, for his part, is expected to harness the pardon power aggressively when he returns to office. Most notably, he has promised to pardon many of the people convicted for their roles in the attack on the Capitol of Jan. 6, 2021. In criticizing the Hunter Biden pardon on Sunday night, Trump again invoked Jan. 6 defendants, calling them “hostages.”[/italic]

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by Anonymousreply 65December 2, 2024 4:28 PM

NO ONE CARES WHAT DUMP FUCKER THINKS.

He's not my President and he never will be.

by Anonymousreply 66December 2, 2024 5:06 PM

Except R65, Hunter Biden has accepted responsibility for his behaviour. He paid what was due and is in good standing with the IRS, and has maintained his sobriety for the last 5.5 years.

His sentencing was corrupted by MAGA House reps who demanded a special counsel investigation - to level the playing field with Trump, to bring everyone down to his level of corruption. That’s all this is about.

by Anonymousreply 67December 2, 2024 5:10 PM

[quote]Hell, if anything, the Democrats to their political peril, have granted too much credit to American voters.

I've always said the Democrats wish Americans were smarter, the Republicans wish they were even dumber. The Republicans got their wish granted in a big way this past election.

by Anonymousreply 68December 2, 2024 5:11 PM

This convicted felon adored by NEONAZIS around the globe should consider himself too lucky for not being in jail tight now and should just should up.

by Anonymousreply 69December 2, 2024 5:37 PM

Tumrp needs to slam his head into a wall

by Anonymousreply 70December 2, 2024 5:39 PM

Oh my sides!

by Anonymousreply 71December 2, 2024 5:45 PM

Trump has an opinion on a moral, ethical, legal issue. Contemplate that. Sit with it. Try to imagine the sort of person who would give a shit.

by Anonymousreply 72December 2, 2024 6:03 PM

He’s a liar and a scoundrel

by Anonymousreply 73December 2, 2024 6:09 PM

Joe must have gotten wind the Rethugs were going to avenge themselves and put Hunter away once and for all.

by Anonymousreply 74December 3, 2024 12:15 AM

He has been waiting for something like this to happen in order to have an excuse to pardon the January 6 traitors.

So of course he’s blabbing about it.

by Anonymousreply 75December 3, 2024 12:27 AM

I misspoke. Biden should pardon everyone EXCEPT Merrick Garland. Trump would be in prison right now if Garland hadn't spent two years sitting on his hands.

by Anonymousreply 76December 3, 2024 2:38 AM

Trump is probably praising Garland.

by Anonymousreply 77December 3, 2024 5:20 AM
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