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As per [original article](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/geraldo-rivera-biden-pardons_n_674d8ed5e4b0e79de41cb84d) 📰:
– Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera pointed to the double standards of Donald Trump backers on Sunday after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden.
“Most dads including this one would do what Joe Biden did,” Rivera, who was once good friends with Trump, posted on X (formerly Twitter). “Blood is thicker than water. He was willing to tarnish his honor and reputation to save his child (who he believed was being shafted).”
He added, “Too bad, but it’s not like he appointed him Ambassador to France.”
Trump announced on Saturday his intention to nominate real estate tycoon Charles Kushner to be the U.S. ambassador to France. Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner, the president-elect’s son-in-law.
Trump pardoned the elder Kushner in December 2020. He spent over a year in prison in the 2000s after pleading guilty on charges of tax evasion, making illegal campaign finance contributions and witness tampering.
[Trump also pardoned a bunch of his associates](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pardons-roger-stone-paul-manafort-other_n_5fe2c9bbc5b6acb534555278) before exiting the White House, including his longtime friend Roger Stone, who was convicted of seven felony charges including lying under oath to a congressional committee and threatening a witness.
The president on Sunday pardoned his son despite having vowed not to interfere with the prosecutions against Hunter Biden.
The younger Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 after he was found guilty in June of illegally owning a gun in 2018. Experts said it was rare to prosecute cases like the one brought against him.
He was also due to be sentenced later this month after pleading guilty in September — to avoid another public trial — to not paying his taxes on time.
Joe Biden in his announcement asserted that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” arguing that “no reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.”
The decision attracted backlash from Republicans and some Democrats.
Some of Trump’s Republican allies in Congress cast Biden as “corrupt,” hypocritical and seeking to dodge accountability.
Trump’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, claimed in a statement, “The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system.”
https://www.justice.gov/pardon/pardons-granted-president-donald-j-trump-2017-2021
Finally, a sensible response.
Will someone please just fucking come into my house and put a bullet in my head
If I had one wish it would be for every trump cultist in the world to be Thanos snapped
I’m so fucking tired of stupid people running my life
[Full List of US Presidents Who Have Pardoned Relatives](https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-presidents-who-have-pardoned-relatives-joe-hunter-biden-1993960)
> **Donald Trump**
> Charles Kushner – Father of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, convicted of tax evasion and witness tampering, and recently nominated by Trump as the U.S.’s ambassador to France.
🤔
Obviously there are legitimate reasons why Biden pardoning his son should give people pause, but Trump should give up his ‘holier-than-thou’ attitude in calling Biden’s pardon a “miscarriage of justice,” when he has not only pardoned a relative, but is literally appointing him to be ambassador to France. And let’s not forget Trump pardoned some of the worst people in America:
> Indeed, by any fair measure, Trump’s record on pardons is arguably the worst in American history. During his first term, he effectively wielded his pardon power as a corrupt weapon, rewarding loyalists, completing cover-ups, undermining federal law enforcement, and doling out perverse favors to the politically connected.
> Trump saw presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends and associates, engaging in the kind of brazen corruption that would’ve defined his term were it not eclipsed by other breathtaking scandals.
Geraldo Riviera, they guy that convicted a grieving mother of murder for a TV mock trial.
Has President Trump registered as a convicted sex offender in DC yet?
You know you’re in trouble when Geraldo is suddenly the voice of reason.
Biden is a hypocrite, there shouldn’t be any whataboutisms that provide fuel for the GOP to use at a later date.
Geraldo scooped Reddit. Come on man let’s get some attribution.
[Did Donald Trump Seriously Sell Pardons?](https://newrepublic.com/post/172849/donald-trump-seriously-sell-pardons)
> “Giuliani also asked Ms. Dunphy if she knew anyone in need of a pardon, telling her that he was selling pardons for $2 million, which he and President Trump would split. He told Ms. Dunphy that she could refer individuals seeking pardons to him, so long as they did not go through “the normal channels” of the Office of the Pardon Attorney, because correspondence going to that office would be subject to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act”
idc what side of the fence you are on, NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.
I hate this whataboutism. He shouldn’t have done it.
I could understand criticism of Joe Biden for this in a vacuum. Biden claimed out of prinicple he wouldn’t ultilize the pardon power like this – then once there was no political consequence possible, he went back on it.
But in context, Trump has constantly threatened the Biden family, so this grants a bit more leeway IMO.
This is a legal use of the pardon power. We may not like the pardon power and how broad reaching it is but the founders did it this way on purpose. They believed the remedy would be political. The constitution leaves a window of time where political consequences don’t exist and incentivizes pardons like this – but the founders believed that “only men of this highest character” would obtain the office of the President. So they thought the pardon power wouldn’t be abused.
Hell, with the recent immunity ruling, Trump could literally sell pardons on his way out of office and it can not be investigated. The pardon power is a core function of the President which makes him immunue from criminal charges.
But I will never make the mistake of openly condemning this pardon in front of a Trump supporter. Even if you disagree with this pardon, don’t disavow it in front of Conservatives.
Conservatives want Democrats to operate with standards and be open to criticism for failing them but then operate with impunity on their side in regards to those standards and won’t take any criticism at all.
It makes for an asymmetrical environment where Democrats are constantly apologizing and making concessions to Conservatives while they refuse to do the same – and it only benefits them.
Listen to criticisms coming from the otherside now. They are critical of Joe Biden lying, they are calling this pardon corrupt, saying it proves the Bidens are corrupt.
If any Trump Supporter wants a concession on this pardon, they first have to acknowledge that Trump lies more than Biden and they don’t care. They have to acknowledge that Jared Kushner being appointed as a senior advisor in 2020 was against the anti-nepotism statue (which means Trump broke the law doing this, unlike Joe’s pardon here which is legal), and that Trump engaged in pardons that were worse than this pardon in full context (again, I don’t claim these were not legal, they were legal pardons).
But of course, this is not how it works. As a Democrat, you are expected to condemn everything and never get a conession in return.
Trump is already suggesting this opens the door to him pardoning J6’ers. Problem is, Trump would do it anyway. This pardon doesn’t make a difference at all to what Trump would do. You think any TS would have been against any Trump pardon but now will be okay with it because of Biden’s pardon? Of course not.
I could condemn this pardon now, they will weaponize that concession and then ignore what Trump has and will continue to do – even if it is clearly against the law, is just as bad, is worse, etc.
So what is the point and why give them that good faith concession when it will never be reciprocated and worse, used against Democrats?
MAGA has nothing to talk about here. THEY ELECTED A FELON. Period.
If the right does something the left doesn’t like, it’s condemned. When the left does something, something big like pardoning Hunter Biden, the left just says “well, what the right did was worse, here are the examples.” I’m pretty sure that these people know they are hypocrites, but they can’t get out of the cycle of lying that has been brought on by left-wing politicians for years. Starting with the election deniers in 2000 claiming Bush didn’t win. Or maybe even earlier with the ice age threats from the 70s. The left is built on dishonesty, that will never change. Luckily, Americans now understand how much they’ve been lied to and spoke back when they voted last month.
What? Geraldo? You finally got a soul?
“yeah this is bad but at least we’re not THOSE guys right? Cuz those guys are worse. Look at the worse guys and not us hahaha ignore that we lied to your face btw”
Isn’t Geraldo a Fox New crony?
I brought this up to a couple of Trump supporters and they told me “Well Charles Kushner isn’t his son, and it was only tax evasion.”
Goal posts forever moving
You do you Joe. Trump gonna do a whole lot more so I’m not too concerned. Hopefully he gets to put in some new Supreme Court judges too.
Only about a month left Joe!
Touche’
Are Magats trolling here now because they can’t do that so much on xitter anymore? Now that millions have dumped Elmo’s propaganda machine?
“Can you believe he did it for FREE? What a loser!”
~MAGA
Would be great if France refused him.
If Geraldo really wants to help. Instead of trying to backpedal the problem he helped cause, He can retire to a cabin somewhere and shut the fuck up forever.
It’s not like he appointed him ambassador to France, he just used his power to give a habitual criminal immunity and made it publicly clear that any corrupt friends or family of politicians deserve to be above the law. It’s especially insulting when literally the only party that even pretends like they give a shit about children being gunned down in our schools just feels that gun-related crimes are no biggie.
Just because Trump is also a corrupt sack of garbage doesn’t mean we should all just ignore blatant abuse of power when we see it. Both Trump and Biden should be treated like threats to America. They have no respect for our laws and they have no issue whatsoever proudly announcing that they (and anyone they deem royalty) are not held to the same standards as the rest of us.
Why even bother having the conversation with them?
They’re just upset that they won’t be able to torture their political opponents to send a message to anyone who might stand against them – they’ll come for your kids.
Geraldo spent years apologizing for King Stupid, he would say,”I don’t see the problem with trump, he was always nice to me.”
Wow, Geraldo really has changed from a few years ago.
If I you think “B-b-but Trump….” makes Biden pardoning his son excusable you need to develop critical thinking and stop seeing everything under a hyperpartisan lens.
If the last eight years have taught us anything, it’s that the outrage of your opponents is worthless and the proper response to it is not to
hem and haw and worry over this or that, but to laugh in their face and say “what are you gonna do about it? Fuck you and fuck your guy, what my guy did was perfectly reasonable and you’re an idiot for suggesting otherwise.”
In the fight against Trump and his goons shame and decency are the marks of a sucker.