by c0balt on 12/2/24, 1:18 AM
Interesting, from the perspective of a father wanting to protect his son, it is understandable. It is just difficult from the perspective of a president even if the reason may sound superficially correct.
by AzzyHN on 12/2/24, 1:22 AM
That certainly doesn't look good.
by coriro on 12/2/24, 1:01 AM
Unsurprising really. Just shows how the whole lot of them are corrupt.
by ithkuil on 12/13/24, 9:33 AM
Does the news about Smirnoff pleading guilty of lying about Burisma money change the feelings towards this pardon of anyone?
I have mixed feelings myself.
On one hand I understand that attacks on Hunter Biden are purely political and the fact that Trump won is putting biden's family at risk and thus forced Biden's hand.
On the other hand if they lose the moral high ground by acting like Trump the long term damage to American democracy is going to be huge
by more_corn on 12/2/24, 1:00 AM
That’s a clear abuse of presidential power.
by potato3732842 on 12/2/24, 1:28 AM
Shame. I was hoping to see a legal showdown and the drugs section of the 4470 get tossed.
by riiii on 12/2/24, 1:20 AM
That's bad. I have to say though that I'm more bothered that the guy taking over has said he wants generals like Hitler had.
by archagon on 12/2/24, 7:44 PM
It doesn’t seem fair that an article can get unflagged while its comments can not. Half the discussion has been nuked for seemingly political reasons by the time the article is back on the front page, giving a warped perspective of what the userbase actually thinks about it.
Frankly, this wasn’t that popular of a thread to begin with, so I’m not sure why dang decided to revive it.
by archagon on 12/2/24, 8:04 PM
It’s telling that Republicans mistake an act of love for corruption. Everything about the Hunter Biden prosecution was abnormally politicized[1], and Trump would have loved to squash him like a bug just to spite his father.
[1] Seriously, before downvoting out of reflex, just read the fuckin’ thing and ask yourself if this sounds like justice being done: https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rcna182437
by aaomidi on 12/2/24, 6:37 PM
Dude lied on a federal form when he bought a gun while using drugs.
That law shouldn’t exist. However that exact law is why I can’t buy firearms.
Not happy with this.
by bediger4000 on 12/2/24, 1:14 AM
Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, Dinesh D'Souza, Bernie Kerik, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort.
Given the lawfare that Republican courts have waged against Hunter, this seems like fair play, and very much in line with what Trump does.
by John23832 on 12/2/24, 1:10 AM
While I do see this as an clear conflict of interest, I do think that this was the correct thing to do. There's no world that Hunter receives a far trial in the midst of the hyper-polarized political world we're in.