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Outgoing US President Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter Biden, saying “raw politics … led to a miscarriage of justice”.

Hunter Biden was convicted of gun charges and tax evasion and was facing sentencing hearings scheduled for mid-December.

Joe Biden said he made the decision over the weekend while spending the Thanksgiving holiday with his family.

  • zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneOP
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    16 days ago

    Hunter Biden was convicted and will be sentenced under Biden’s DOJ. I don’t see what Trump’s election has to do with it.

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        16 days ago

        a trump appointed judge

        Yeah, appointed by Trump in 2018.

        killed the plea deal

        Yeah, they killed the deal in July.

        So again, I can’t see how Trump’s inauguration in January, and any ‘weaponising of the DOJ’ that would occur after that, could have any bearing on Hunter’s conviction earlier this year, and sentencing this month.

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          Trump appointed judges are likely to be loyal to trump, like that loose cannon which delayed trumps document case. So pressure from the trump team derailed the plea deal and and made it impossible for hunter to get a fair trial, especially under a trump doj. If he wasn’t joe bidens son he probably would have never gone to trial.

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            16 days ago

            The comment I was originally responding to said:

            If Trump hadn’t won the election, I would disapprove of this action. But he did and he has promised to weaponize the DOJ, so this is the smart move.

            That is what I was responding to.

            So your responses, correct or not, are not relevant to my comment or the comment I was responding to.

            You said:

            So pressure from the trump team derailed the plea deal and and made it impossible for hunter to get a fair trial

            If that is what happened, it happened before Trump got elected.

            especially under a trump doj.

            Hunter has already been convicted, and will be sentenced this month under a Biden DOJ.

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      16 days ago

      It’s to stop him from coming after anything else they might trump up. (Weird that trump the verb is doubly appropriate.)