Pardoning Hunter Biden: manton.org
@manton Hard agree. The opposition would’ve pardoned far more heinous acts without a second thought, and their supporters wouldn’t bat an eye.
@manton Nailed it. Trump is going to use the “politicized prosecution” excuse to pardon J6ers regardless of what Biden did or didn’t do with the actually-politicized prosecution of Hunter — it’s time to stop unilaterally disarming ourselves.
@manton I sent this message to a friend:
> You know what? Good. We all know that this prosecution was motivated, the crimes were not that big a deal and would have gotten plead out if he was anyone else and possibly not even prosecuted, and there’s 0 chance that Trump isn’t going to (continue to) abuse the shit out of this power, so for a father who actually loves his son to do this… fine.
@manton It’s difficult for me to let go of the instinct to “take the high road”. Half of me totally agrees that we should all just do what we think is right. But the other half of me worries about a slippery slope. I think that half of me just worries, period.
@manton Biden spent his 40-years long career campaigning on ever-harsher drug and gun laws. Directly and proudly claiming responsibility for putting countless others behind bars based on the same web of compounding infractions and technicalities for far less, and who will get no leniency reason.com/2024/12/0…
I do not blame him for pardoning his son, and think the leaked phone call was the most humanizing thing about Biden I’ve seen. But I think Stephen A. Smith sums the furor over the 10 year blanket pardon well enough www.youtube.com/watch
@jarrod It’s a fair point. I worry about that too, but less so now than I would’ve pre-election. As long as we don’t get lost down conspiracy rabbit holes, I think we’ll be okay. Doing what’s “right” has to be grounded in truth.
