{"id":64127,"date":"2024-12-02T14:30:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64127"},"modified":"2024-12-02T14:30:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T22:30:47","slug":"trump-and-the-gop-affirm-their-reputations-as-moronic-hypocrites-after-hunter-bidens-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=64127","title":{"rendered":"Trump and the GOP Affirm Their Reputations as Moronic Hypocrites After Hunter Biden’s Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trying to find hypocrisy or stupidity on the part of Donald Trump and his MAGA minions is about as difficult as trying to find stolen classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. They are virtually everywhere. And making the task even easier is that Trump et al seem to be intent on festooning their foolishness with flags and flashing red lights.<\/p>\n

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The news that President Biden has issued a pardon<\/a><\/strong> for his son Hunter has ignited another firestorm of performative outrage on the part of the Trumpists. All of a sudden they are determined to take the sort of principled stance that has never been a part of their persona. They are now expressing their shock and dismay over what they are falsely insisting is a display of immorality on the part of the President. Never mind the obvious moral decrepitude of their own Dear Leader Trump…<\/p>\n

SEE THIS: Trump\u2019s Refusal to Sign the Required Ethics Agreement is His Virtual Promise to Violate It<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

There could be some reasonable criticisms of Biden’s decision to pardon his son. For instance, he could have waited until after Hunter’s trials and sentencing. Then he could have just commuted the sentence if there was one. But the Trumpian critics never get close to any reasonable arguments.<\/p>\n

Since the ethically deficient fish stinks from the head, let’s begin this examination of MAGA morality with Trump’s response<\/a><\/strong> to the pardon. Late Sunday evening Trump posted the following message on his failing Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>…<\/p>\n

“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!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously? Hunter Biden did not hurt anyone but himself with his violations of tax reporting and his misstatements on a form when purchasing a gun. And he made restitution by taking full responsibility and paying all his back taxes and penalties. He certainly didn’t storm the Capital causing millions of dollars of damages. He didn’t assault police officers, putting 140 of them in the hospital. He didn’t threaten the lives of members of Congress and their staff, and even the Vice-President.<\/p>\n

In short, there is no rational comparison between Hunter’s actions and those of Trump’s January 6th insurrectionists. And there is no justifiable argument to grant the rioters pardons. For Trump to even bring it up is preposterous and an insult to the victims that his mob attacked in an effort to undermine American democracy. However, the criticisms of the pardon by the MAGA crowd were equally as devoid of reason. There were three main categories of that criticism.<\/p>\n

First of all, they characterized the pardon as an unprecedented abuse of presidential power. In order to make that complaint, they had to ignore the points that Biden made in his official statement that Hunter was the subject of selective prosecution. Even more egregious, they had to ignore Trump’s pardons of his criminal accomplices, including Paul Manafort, Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Charles Kushner, Dinesh D’Souza, and dozens more.<\/p>\n

Secondly, they claimed that Hunter’s pardon would justify Trump pardoning others in the future, including the January 6th insurrectionists. However, Trump has been promising to pardon them for years, and long before Biden pardoned his son. Trump doesn’t care about justifications, and wouldn’t bother with them. He does what he wants irrespective of what anyone else – or the law – has to say about it. If Biden had not pardoned Hunter, Trump would still pardon the January 6th mob, and many others who don’t warrant pardons.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, they are yammering about whether Biden lied about his intention to pardon Hunter. He didn’t lie. He changed his mind. And with good reason considering the vengeance seeking extremists who have explicitly targeted Hunter (Kash Patel, Pam Bondi, Tulsi Gabbard, etc.) that have been nominated to serve in Trump’s Cabinet. Patel, Trump’s proposed FBI Director, has stated unambiguously that Hunter is guilty<\/a><\/strong> – not allegedly guilty – of crimes that he has never been tried for, and for which their is no evidence of guilt.<\/p>\n

When Trump’s Republican comrades can accept that they are all flaming hypocrites for supporting someone who has been convicted of 34 felonies, and has been adjudicated as a rapist with dozens of other accusations of sexual harassment and assault, and has been ordered to pay nearly half a billion dollars in penalties for financial fraud, and has been prohibited from operating any charities in New York, and has been caught hoarding classified documents in his Mar-a-Lago home\/hotel, and has attempted to overthrow a fair and legal election… then they can maybe have something to say about President Biden and his son, Hunter. Until then, STFU!<\/p>\n

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