by Julie Kelly, Declassified with Julie Kelly:
Joe Biden’s sweeping pardon of his son opened the door for blanket amnesty for every January 6 defendant as Biden’s DOJ continues to investigate, charge, incarcerate, and put on trial J6 protesters.
Reaction on both sides is mixed in response to Joe Biden’s sprawling pardon last night of his son, Hunter.
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Claiming his son had been “singled out” and “treated differently” by the Department of Justice and federal judges, Biden not only absolved Hunter of the two criminal convictions for which he was set to be sentenced this month but any crime over a nearly 11-year period:
Be It Known, That This Day, I, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, Pursuant to My Powers Under Article II, Section 2, Clause 1, of the Constitution, Have Granted Unto
ROBERT HUNTER BIDEN
A Full and Unconditional Pardon
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted.
The declaration is now filed with Biden’s DOJ for posterity.
Thanks, Joe
I will leave it to others, including the great Miranda Devine, to detail how the decade-long international Biden family crime spree will end without legal accountability for those—including Joe himself—involved. Or explain how the pardon represents another lie told by “my word as a Biden” Joe or speculate that more pardons, perhaps for his brother Jim and every other relative who benefitted from the family’s global grift, are in the making.
Instead, I tip my hat to Joe Biden for laying the groundwork for President-elect Donald Trump to offer similarly-generous clemency to all January 6 defendants on Day One of his presidency. That’s not to say Trump is not already considering such a plan—but Biden’s claims that his own DOJ “selectively” and “unfairly” targeted his son will be delicious words for J6 pardon-detractors to eat when the time comes. So too will Biden’s accusations that “raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice.”
This from the man whose DOJ not only initiated two investigations into his predecessor, which led to an armed raid of Mar-a-Lago and historic federal criminal indictments against Trump and co-defendants, but whose DOJ also continues to investigate, arrest, prosecute, and imprison Americans involved in protesting the rigged 2020 presidential election.
Biden’s unprecedented persecution of J6ers has become a rallying cry among the MAGA base; while most Republican political leaders ignored their plight, Trump did not. On the campaign trail, Trump often promised to pardon the more than 1,500-and-counting Americans ensnared in the most abusive and politically motivated federal prosecution in the DOJ’s history.
A Trump spokeswoman recently said pardons would be reviewed on a “case-by-case” basis but others suggest a broad-based pardon could be in the works for so-called “nonviolent” offenders convicted or charged with misdemeanors; how to handle those convicted of violent charges such as assault on law enforcement present a more complicated political calculation for the new administration, one that may have required a piecemeal approach to ease expected outrage by the media and among lily-livered Republicans in Washington.
Until yesterday.
Trump himself wasted little time before raising the issue of January 6 defendants in a post on Truth Social:
Influencers also flooded X with calls for unequivocal clemency for all J6ers:
