Hunter Biden looks on during the annual Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S. April 18, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) – There’s more to be said about the Hunter Biden pardon. The public statements from the White House suggest that the President’s brain has turned to mush.
Joe Biden, in his written pardon statement, says the prosecution of his son was political. That his opponents were trying to damage him by persecuting Hunter Biden. The only problem is, that can’t be true. Who was doing the prosecuting? That would be the Department of Justice, a part of the Biden Administration, led by Joe Biden’s hand-picked choice for Attorney General Merrick Garland. So we are to believe that Joe Biden’s own Justice Department was somehow weaponized against the Biden family? How could that be?
The attorney general serves at the pleasure of the President. If the President disagrees with how the AG is running things, he could ask for Merrick Garland’s resignation and get it immediately. The president also has the power to fire any special prosecutor. If David Weiss’ investigation was unfair or politically motivated, he could have been dismissed at any time. Instead he was allowed to press forward to a jury verdict on the Hunter Biden gun charges and a guilty plea on tax evasion.
And it begs the question, if the Department of Justice was weaponized against the President’s own son, what chance did Donald Trump have?
There’s a second point to be made about Sunday’s pardon, and it ties into why some democrats are so furious about Joe Biden’s lies not to do it. Biden’s new standard is if the prosecution is politically motivated, the president’s pardon power is the appropriate cure. So Donald Trump will certainly pardon Steve Bannon, and for those protesting outside abortion clinics, and for those who entered the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. And why shouldn’t he? Those were all political prosecutions too.
Chris Conley
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