{"id":57823,"date":"2024-12-02T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57823"},"modified":"2024-12-02T11:16:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T11:16:31","slug":"biden-pardons-son-yawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57823","title":{"rendered":"Biden pardons son &#8230; yawn!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Joe Biden said he wouldn&#8217;t pardon his son Hunter on a federal conviction related to an illegal purchase of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president had second thoughts and issued the pardon. I know what some of you must be thinking. How dare the president renege on his promise. The son needs to do time!<\/p>\n<p>My thought? So &#8230; what!<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden likely wouldn&#8217;t go to the slammer for a piss ante conviction that was brought for political reasons in the first place. He lied about his drug addiction when purchasing a gun; it&#8217;s a crime and a jury convicted him of it.<\/p>\n<p>His father vowed he wouldn&#8217;t issue a pardon for his son. Then a lot of things changed for Daddy Biden. He dropped out of the 2024 presidential campaign, making him a lame duck the moment he pulled out. Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s loss on Nov. 5 sealed the end of Joe Biden&#8217;s influence on national policy.<\/p>\n<p>So, he pardoned his son. <em>Big fu***** deal, man!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The pardon will give conservative talking heads some chatter grist for a while, then it will fade away &#8230; just like Joe Biden and his family.<\/p>\n<p>The president served the nation with distinction for more than 50 years. This act of compassion for a son he loves beyond measure speaks only to his devotion as a father and family man.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden said he wouldn&#8217;t pardon his son Hunter on a federal conviction related to an illegal purchase of a firearm. Then the president had second thoughts and issued the pardon. I know what some of you must be thinking. How dare the president renege on his promise. The son needs to do time! My &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden pardons son &#8230; yawn!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[8937,2505,10357],"class_list":["post-57823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-hunter-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57824,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57823\/revisions\/57824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}