{"id":15711,"date":"2024-12-14T15:58:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15711"},"modified":"2024-12-14T15:58:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T15:58:27","slug":"we-havent-seen-a-pardon-as-sweeping-as-hunter-bidens-in-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=15711","title":{"rendered":"We haven\u2019t seen a pardon as sweeping as Hunter Biden\u2019s in generations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“rather than merely pardoning his son for the gun crimes for which he was convicted<\/a> and the tax crimes for which he pleaded guilty<\/a>, the president\u2019s pardon covers all \u201coffenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in<\/a>\u201d from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024. That language mirrors the language in Ford\u2019s pardon of Nixon, which did not merely cover the Watergate scandal but extended to \u201call offenses against the United States\u201d that Nixon \u201chas committed or may have committed\u201d between Jan. 20, 1969, and Aug. 9, 1974 \u2014 the exact span of Nixon\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The starting date of Jan. 1, 2014, in the Biden pardon was surely not chosen randomly: Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company, in April 2014, while his father was vice president. Republicans have accused the younger Biden of illegally profiting off his position on that board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pardon came the day after Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel<\/a>, a Trump loyalist, as FBI director. Last year, when it appeared that Hunter Biden was on the verge of a plea deal to resolve his legal troubles, Patel criticized the deal<\/a> as unusually lenient. (The deal later collapsed.)”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“its sweeping nature means the Trump Justice Department will not be able to reopen the long-running criminal probe of the president\u2019s son, according to Samuel Morison, a lawyer focused on clemency who spent 13 years in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/02\/hunter-biden-pardon-nixon-00192101<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“rather than merely pardoning his son for the gun crimes for which he was convicted and the tax crimes for which he pleaded guilty, the president\u2019s pardon covers all \u201coffenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in\u201d from Jan. 1, 2014, through Dec. 1, 2024. That language mirrors the language in Ford\u2019s pardon of Nixon, which did not merely cover the Watergate scandal but extended to \u201call offenses against the United States\u201d that Nixon \u201chas committed or may have committed\u201d between Jan. 20, 1969, and Aug. 9, 1974 \u2014 the exact span of Nixon\u2019s presidency.
\nThe starting date of Jan. 1, 2014, in the Biden pardon was surely not chosen randomly: Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian gas company, in April 2014, while his father was vice president. Republicans have accused the younger Biden of illegally profiting off his position on that board.<\/p>\n

The pardon came the day after Trump announced he would nominate Kash Patel, a Trump loyalist, as FBI director. Last year, when it appeared that Hunter Biden was on the verge of a plea deal to resolve his legal troubles, Patel criticized the deal as unusually lenient. (The deal later collapsed.)”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“its sweeping nature means the Trump Justice Department will not be able to reopen the long-running criminal probe of the president\u2019s son, according to Samuel Morison, a lawyer focused on clemency who spent 13 years in the Justice Department\u2019s Office of the Pardon Attorney.”<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2024\/12\/02\/hunter-biden-pardon-nixon-00192101<\/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":[13],"tags":[375,835,780,933],"class_list":["post-15711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-hunter-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15712,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15711\/revisions\/15712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}