Republicans are not the only ones ticked off at President Joe Biden over his decision to issue a blanket pardon for his law breaking son, Hunter. The frustration has reached all the way to the Democratic Party, including a few top dogs with major influence. It’s nice to see Democrats and Republicans agree on something, especially with all of the ways the left has worked to keep us all apart from one another. Maybe the unity we’ve been searching for can come from a mutual distaste for Hunter Biden.
A new report from Trending Politics News has revealed that Rep. Pete Aguilar, a Texas Democrat and chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, had a conversation with the media where he said it was “disappointing” to see Biden, a fellow Democrat, break his promise not to issue a pardon for Hunter after repeatedly saying he wouldn’t do so.
“As a father, I understand it and I get it, but as someone who has spent a lot of time at this podium talking about the importance of respecting the rule of law, it’s disappointing. And so we didn’t have a robust conversation about this in the caucus, but those are my personal beliefs. The president said publicly he wasn’t going to give a pardon, and then he did. So that part — that part’s disappointing. I believed him when he said he wasn’t,” Aguilar said.
Aguilar, who will begin his sixth two-year term in 2025, is third in line behind House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-MA), underscoring how corrosive the pardoning of Hunter Biden has been to the Democratic coalition. His comments came after other prominent party members denounced the decision to give Hunter blanket immunity for a period spanning 11 years and exonerating him from a conviction on felony gun charges and an active trial on multi-million dollar tax fraud.
“President Biden’s decision put personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all,” Democratic Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) stated on Monday in a post published on X, Newsweek reported. Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI) also said, “President Biden’s decision to pardon his son was wrong. A president’s family and allies shouldn’t get special treatment. This was an improper use of power, it erodes trust in our government, and it emboldens others to bend justice to suit their interests.” Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) explained. “If you defended the 34x felon, who committed sexual assault, stole national security documents, and tried running a coup on his country … you can sit out the Hunter Biden pardon discussion,” he continued.
On Tuesday, President Biden paid a visit to Angola and bobbed and weaved around questions about the pardon like he was a 20-year-old Mike Tyson in his first title fight. He then took a little nap at the economic summit, likely all tuckered out from all that hard work he did breathing and finding his way to the event.
Aboard Air Force One, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pushed back forcefully against accusations she lied for a year when insisting Biden had no plan to pardon Hunter and came to the decision only over the weekend. “One thing the president believes is to always be truthful with the American people,” Jeane-Pierre said, Fox News reported. She repeated several times the president “wrestled with [the decision]” while decrying “war politics” that led to Hunter being “singled out politically” in his prosecution.
In a scathing rebuke, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who oversaw Hunter’s federal tax case, issued a five-page rationale for why Biden’s pardon and critique of the justice system rings hollow. “The President’s own attorney general and Department of Justice personnel oversaw the investigation leading to the charges. In the President’s estimation, this legion of federal civil servants, the undersigned included, are unreasonable people,” Scarsi wrote, according to Newsweek. “In short, a press release is not a pardon. The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”
The Justice Department, in a statement given to the New York Post, said that it was completely caught off guard by the president’s issuing of the pardon. The DOJ said that the Office of the Pardon Attorney is typically consulted by the White House before moving forward with high-profile pardons like Hunter Biden’s.
Sources revealed the office would not have recommended Biden take this course of action.
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