President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son has left some Democrats fuming over his choice to repeatedly and unequivocally claim that he would never take that step, even though a pardon long appeared possible to Hunter Biden’s legal team.
Day: December 2, 2024
The rekindling of fighting in Syria comes after a four-year lull in a civil war that first broke out in 2011. The uneasy stalemate among the country’s various hostile factions was broken when rebel fighters captured the city of Aleppo from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and another rebel group took a smaller city north of there from Syrian Kurdish forces.
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US urges push for Syria de-escalation https://t.co/EIE3RRPGpe— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) December 2, 2024
Hunter’s pardon is a gift to Donald Trump, and a blow to whatever confidence Americans continue to have in our political and legal institutions.
With the pardon of his son, President Biden added his name to the roll call of presidents who dishonored their office by misusing the pardon power.
President Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden from two separate criminal cases, claiming they were politically motivated to target the Biden family.
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President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, for any offenses over a nearly 11-year period doesn’t have many, if any, direct historical parallels.