While many Democrats are upset about Joe Biden’s pardoning of his son Hunter, because it makes them look like total hypocrites and liars, some people on the left are defending Biden’s decision.
One of those people is MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who is trying to tie Biden’s decision to Trump and his FBI pick Kash Patel.
In Maddow’s mind, Biden’s choice makes perfect sense because Patel has made it clear that he wants to go after the rot in the Deep State. For Rachel, this completely justifies Biden’s move.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
It is true that President Biden had said he wouldn’t pardon his son.
And it may or may not be related, but would it change your mind at all if after you made a pledge like that, the incoming next president then announced that he planned to remove the director of the FBI and install in his place someone who has literally published a hit list of people he wants to go after once Trump is back in power?
There are 60 names on this list. This guy published it as an appendix — as appendix B to one of his recent books. Not his series of books that described Trump as King Donald — no, those are history books for kids. No, the one with the 60 names on a list of who he’s going to go get in Trump’s name once Trump is back in power, that’s a book he wrote presumably for adults.
So, what would you do? What would you do if after you made that pledge to not pardon your son, that’s what the next president said he was going to do to U.S. law enforcement? What would you do?
What is reasonable to demand of a man after what’s been done to your son already, right? You ready to put him back in the barrel?
Honestly, maybe what President Biden should have done is not just pardon his son, Hunter, but name him ambassador to France, right? Maybe then the response, the criticism of the decision would be a little more muted.
Watch the video:
Rachel Maddow is actually arguing that Biden is justified to pardon his son after spending 6 months telling us he wouldn’t because Donald Trump wants to appoint an FBI Director of his choice.
MSNBC isn’t even worth $1. pic.twitter.com/xtA21guxSC
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) December 3, 2024
Maddow could have saved everyone a lot of time by just sitting in front of the camera and saying “But Trump.” That seems to be her argument for everything.
Mike LaChance has been covering higher education and politics for Legal Insurrection since 2012. Since 2008 he has contributed work to the Gateway Pundit, Daily Caller, Breitbart, the Center for Security Policy, the Washington Free Beacon, and Ricochet. He has also written for American Lookout, Townhall, and Twitchy.
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