TFN: "Reportedly, Raskin is challenging Nadler not due to animosity — the two are friends — but because other House Dems pushed him to do it. Not a good sign for Nadler."
Iirc, one major gripe Dems may have against Nadler is how foot-draggingly slow he was to demand copies of the President's tax returns from the IRS iaw public law
Giving him the benefit of the doubt, my guess is Joe did not intend to pardon Hunter, but a month after the latter was convicted, SCOTUS declared the president has a superpower, so Joe would be reasonably worried that tRump would officially act Hunter to life in prison, or lethal injection, even.
I disagree with your assessment of why Biden pardoned his son. It was the only thing he could do to keep Trump from waging war on Hunter, after Trump took office. Of course, he should pardon some other people, Leonard Peltier for starters. I also believe that since he now has immunity per the Supreme Court, there are other things that he could do to hamstring Trump when he comes in. Not that he would do that because it's probably not in his nature, but still.
Amen Jonathan
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TFN: "Reportedly, Raskin is challenging Nadler not due to animosity — the two are friends — but because other House Dems pushed him to do it. Not a good sign for Nadler."
Iirc, one major gripe Dems may have against Nadler is how foot-draggingly slow he was to demand copies of the President's tax returns from the IRS iaw public law
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Giving him the benefit of the doubt, my guess is Joe did not intend to pardon Hunter, but a month after the latter was convicted, SCOTUS declared the president has a superpower, so Joe would be reasonably worried that tRump would officially act Hunter to life in prison, or lethal injection, even.
I concur. That’s some good shit. I’ll take a t shirt and here’s a coffee on me.
I disagree with your assessment of why Biden pardoned his son. It was the only thing he could do to keep Trump from waging war on Hunter, after Trump took office. Of course, he should pardon some other people, Leonard Peltier for starters. I also believe that since he now has immunity per the Supreme Court, there are other things that he could do to hamstring Trump when he comes in. Not that he would do that because it's probably not in his nature, but still.
Thanks, Marinell! I wasn't attempting to speculate about Biden's reasoning, I was characterizing the remarks he himself made in his own statement about it, which you can check out here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/01/statement-from-president-joe-biden-11/