Without consequences, the rule of law dies



The series of absurdities that have unfolded this week to undermine the rule of law are so convoluted that it would be hilarious if the topic were not so grave.

The Biden administration has demonstrated consistent corruption, bringing outrageous charges against political opponents, intimidating concerned parents, and targeting professing Christians. Progressives have gone to extreme lengths — including attempted assassination — to stop Donald Trump from returning to the White House, fearing the consequences of their actions. Now, President Joe Biden has issued a sweeping pardon for his son Hunter and is reportedly considering additional “pre-emptive” pardons to shield his allies.

A standard that applies only to one side is not a principle at all — it is a weapon.

President Trump must reject calls for surrender from both the establishment left and right while ensuring Democrats are held accountable for their abuse of power. If he fails to act, the left will likely resume its legal campaigns the moment Democrats regain power.

In the past week, both National Review and Politico published pieces urging Trump to avoid retaliatory actions if he returns to office. While National Review acknowledged corruption within the Biden Justice Department and Politico largely downplayed it, both concluded that Trump should refrain from using his power to hold those responsible for legal overreach accountable.

The word "retaliation" is itself a manipulative attempt to poison the well. The correct word is "justice," and without justice, not only will those wronged go without satisfaction, but the incentives will encourage Democrats to resume their incredibly corrupt practices the minute they regain power.

The think pieces urging restraint from Trump were already absurd. Joe Biden, however, drove the point home days later by issuing a sweeping pardon for his son Hunter. The pardon not only covers the specific weapons charges for which Hunter was convicted but also shields him from all potential crimes dating back to 2014.

While using presidential power to protect a son from a specific, life-altering mistake might be understandable, this blanket pardon reeks of corruption. Its scope — reaching back to when Hunter allegedly acted as a bagman for his dad — suggests self-interest played a larger role than fatherly affection in this brazen act.

If the Hunter Biden pardon wasn’t enough to mock the rule of law, Politico now reports that the administration is considering blanket pardons for other Democratic allies. Figures such as Anthony Fauci, Liz Cheney, and Adam Schiff — all potential targets for accountability under Trump — may receive pre-emptive pardons.

Should the Biden administration take this step, it will destroy any remaining illusion of a functioning justice system. Americans watching this blatant corruption can no longer believe progressives will honor calls for civility or restraint. The left is torching its last shreds of credibility, along with the evidence, as it scrambles to evade accountability.

Americans like to believe they live under the rule of law, not the rule of men. Ultimately, however, all laws must be administered by someone. A society’s norms and beliefs can be enshrined in its legal system, but if those in power fail to enforce and respect those standards, they become meaningless.

President Joe Biden has repeatedly declared, “No one is above the law,” in reference to Donald Trump. Yet, when it comes to his son Hunter or figures like Anthony Fauci, Biden has shown no interest in upholding that principle. A standard that applies only to one side is not a principle at all — it is a weapon.

Conservatives, by nature, gravitate toward restoring order and sanity. Most Republican voters want a justice system that punishes criminals, protects citizens, and remains apolitical. But order cannot be restored unless Democrats face consequences for violating those norms. Losing an election is not enough.

Trump must take substantive action to impose accountability and deter progressive politicians and bureaucrats from abusing power again when given the opportunity. Every schoolchild learns that the pendulum swing of democracy and competing ambitions keeps government power in check. Yet, this system cannot function if one side makes power abuse its principle while the other side refuses to wield power at all.

President Trump should start by pardoning the January 6 defendants and other enemies of the Democratic Party, like Douglass Mackey, who have faced politically motivated prosecution under Biden’s Department of Justice. The Trump administration should consider dismantling the FBI entirely or at least closing its Washington headquarters. This effort should include firing as many agents as possible and relocating the remaining staff to various field offices across the country.

Charges should be filed against officials who committed crimes while implementing the Biden administration’s corrupt agenda. Those who were complicit but did not commit criminal acts should be removed from their positions. Accountability must come first.

Healing and unity — and a true restoration of the rule of law — can only happen after the left’s entrenched influence in the American system is rooted out. Those advising retreat or restraint without ensuring Democrats face consequences are either naïve or deliberately protecting the entrenched establishment.

Trump must take bold action and disregard disingenuous calls for civility designed to enable future progressive abuses. For ambition to truly check ambition, the pendulum must swing — and it must swing hard.

Biden opened the door for AVALANCHE of Trump pardons



Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, which covers every federal crime that he’s committed in the past decade, is taking the news cycle by storm — and for good reason.

“It is absolutely unprecedented,” Sean Davis, CEO of the Federalist, tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “We believe this is the most expansive, the most broad and wide-ranging pardon ever issued in American history.”

Even Gerald Ford’s 1974 pardon of Richard Nixon for the Watergate scandal was only for five years of crimes, while Hunter’s spanned a whopping eleven years.

“You can go back even further, if you want to look at pardons given to Confederate generals after the Civil War, people who literally waged war against the United States, theirs were not as expansive as this,” Davis explains, adding that “to see his son get the biggest, most widest-ranging pardon in American history, it’s shocking to me.”


While it’s shocking — and blatantly corrupt — Hunter’s pardon isn’t all negative.

“If they were worried about J6 protesters maybe being pardoned before this happened, they don’t need to worry about that any more, because that’s 100% going to happen. By doing a pardon of this nature for the president’s son, it basically makes it impossible for Democrats to complain or argue about any pardons going forward,” Davis says.

However, Democrats like Gerry Connolly seem to be catching on and are already insisting that there should not be sweeping pardons like Hunter’s in the future.

“It’s interesting that this is coming from the Democratic side, because they know at some point,” Savage says, “Republicans are going to be back in office.”

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Blaze News original: Biden praised on CNN, MSNBC months ago for promise not to pardon Hunter. Now there's egg on a few faces.



It's indeed a salve for the conservative soul to watch numerous prominent voices against Donald Trump speak so glowingly months ago about President Joe Biden's promise that he wouldn't pardon his son Hunter — only to have that very thing come to pass Sunday.

Tom Elliott of news and video outlet Grabien posted a nine-minute supercut of anti-Trump pundits and cable news talking heads singing Biden's praises for his no-pardon pledge and using it to rip Trump to shreds, pointing out the "contrast" with Trump's complaints that the Justice Department was weaponized against him.

'It was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn't have been in starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own conviction.'

Blaze News took a deeper look at the clips, and one of the first things to stand out is how often the prominent elitists in them use the same words and phrases (such as "stark" and "contrast" — and, for variety — "stark contrast") in their efforts to boost Biden and tear down Trump.

To wit: A guest of MSNBC's Joy Reid — Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida — told her in one clip that "the Democrats stand for the rule of law. Remember law and order. ... It is amazing to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last couple of weeks."

Another clip shows former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara telling MSNBC's Chris Hayes that Biden "could still pardon him; he said he won't do that ... given that it's his son. ... Pause for a moment and think about how unbelievable that is. In a million years, if the shoe were on the other foot."

Oh, how the worm has turned. Check out the carnage:

'One side: Democrats and Joe Biden protecting the justice system, and on the other, Republicans and Trump protecting Trump.'


CNN political commentator S.E. Cupp spoke during a segment titled "Biden says he won't pardon son Hunter if he's convicted" and attempted to draw a distinction between Biden and Trump: "The contrast is profound. To sit there and say, 'I'm not going to intervene in the legal process, and I wouldn't pardon my son.' ... One side: Democrats and Joe Biden protecting the justice system, and on the other, Republicans and Trump protecting Trump." You can view the clip here at the 40-second mark.

Cupp on Monday morning posted the following on X: "It doesn’t get said enough, but Trump’s enduring legacy will be convincing BOTH parties to lower the bar, and that possessing moral authority on anything is no longer a currency that matters."

Her statement was in response to the following post by never-Trump author Charlie Sykes: "Smart person texts me: 'Joe Biden has just removed the issue of pardons from the political arena for the next four years, and Trump probably once again can’t believe his own dumb f***ing luck at this point.' Sadly, I think he’s right."

'A current president of the United States has so much respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son ... again, it's all about the contrast.'


In another clip (1:06 mark), Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" stated that "a current president of the United States has so much respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son ... again, it's all about the contrast."

The clip cuts to Willie Geist of "Morning Joe" with this take: "President Biden saying, 'I will respect whatever this jury decides' versus Donald Trump after he was convicted on 34 counts saying the entire system is rigged against him."

Brzezinski pushed out an audible snicker after Geist's pronouncement.

'How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when all of that is happening?'


Over a screen title that reads, "The right accuses the DOJ of weaponizing the justice system despite Hunter Biden's prosecution & guilty verdict," MSNBC's Joy Reid states that "the president said he won't touch it; he said he's not going to pardon his son, and it seems that [U.S. Attorney General] Merrick Garland let it go through. How can the Justice Department be weaponized against Trump when all of that is happening?"

Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida replied, "The Democrats stand for the rule of law. Remember law and order. ... It is amazing to see the stark contrast between how Democrats handled today and how Republicans handled this whole thing over the last couple of weeks."

You can view the clip here at the 3:47 mark. You can view the full June 11 segment here.

'Those words so completely contrast with his opponent.'


Katy Tur said in another MSNBC clip (7:36 mark) — with a screen title that reads, "Hunter Biden found guilty of 3 felony gun charges" — that the president insisted he would respect the outcome of his son's case and that "those words so completely contrast with what his opponent, now a convicted felon himself, continues to say about the U.S courts."

'The contrast to how Trump has behaved, how Trump has treated the rule of law ... this was a good day for the system.'


Chuck Todd — over an MSNBC screen title that reads, "Hunter Biden found guilty of 3 felony gun charges" — had the following to say: "The contrast to how Trump has behaved, how Trump has treated the rule of law ... this was a good day for the system, a good day for sort of America as an example of how the rule of law should work." You can view the clip here at the 7:58 mark.

'Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon his son, he would not commute his sentence. How stark is this difference?'


Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC's "The Nightcap" — over a screen title that reads, "Hunter Biden convicted on gun charges" — said the following to her panel: "The latest attack is that Joe Biden has politicized and weaponized the DOJ, right? That was the whole argument around Donald Trump's conviction, and this week, of course, Hunter Biden was found guilty, and Joe Biden has very clearly said he would not pardon his son, he would not commute his sentence. How stark is this difference? I mean, how can Republicans keep making this argument now that Joe Biden has really put it out there?" You can view the clip here at the 1:28 mark.

'He is not pardoning his son ... he is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country.'


Speaking to MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace over a screen title that reads, "Trump, GOP call on SCOTUS to respond to guilty verdict," former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann says the following: “He is not pardoning his son, which he could do. These are federal charges. He is not doing that. He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country.” After a cut in the clip, Weissmann adds, "If you want to know if he believes it, you can see what is actually happening with his own son." You can view the clip here at the 2:01 mark.

'There's an opportunity here for Biden to say, you know, "The jury found [Hunter] guilty. This is how it’s supposed to work. Period. Paragraph. End of story."'


Another MSNBC clip (3:09 mark) features political commentator Molly Jong-Fast — over a screen title that reads "Press [secretary] doesn't rule out potential that Biden could commute Hunter's sentence" — offering the following take: “I think Joe Biden has a chance here to stand up for the rule of law, to say ... the law is the law, no matter who it is, no matter if it’s Trump or Biden. And remember, part of Trump-ism’s dangerousness is that it tears down institutions, important institutions of our democracy. So there's an opportunity here for Biden to say, you know, 'The jury found [Hunter] guilty. This is how it’s supposed to work. Period. Paragraph. End of story.'”

Fox News reported that Jong-Fast — after learning Biden pardoned his son — told MSNBC, "I, so, I just heard it. I have to process it. I don’t have a take. I’m sorry."

'You heard the president say he would accept the outcome of the case; I know no other word for that but "presidential."'


An MSNBC clip (4:17 mark) — with a screen title that reads, "Hunter Biden found guilty in federal gun trial" — shows former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal saying the following to host Jonathan Capehart: "For years, these conservatives have been crowing about a politicized Justice Department, Biden politicizing it, and so on. What happened today? The Justice Department convicted the president’s own son — his only living son. You heard the president say he would accept the outcome of the case; I know no other word for that but 'presidential.'”

Capehart replied, "[Biden] even went so far as to say he wouldn’t pardon his son. That’s how much respect he has for the system.”

Interestingly, Katyal on Sunday night posted a link to an October Politico story titled, "Trump says he’s open to pardoning Hunter Biden." Katyal wrote above the link, "Just putting this out there ..."

'It was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn't have been in starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own conviction.'


CNN's Jim Acosta — over a screen title that reads, "Pres. Biden says he will not pardon his son" — asked author Chris Whipple for his take on Biden's declaration.

Whipple — author of "The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House" — replied by saying, "I thought it was extraordinary. I mean, it was a moment of just moral clarity on the part of Joe Biden and couldn't have been in starker contrast to the way Donald Trump has handled his own conviction."

You can view the clip here at the 4:45 mark.

'He could still pardon him; he said he won't do that ... given that it's his son ... pause for a moment and think about how unbelievable that is.'


In an MSNBC clip (5:05 mark) with a screen title that reads, "Biden: 'I accept the outcome' of Hunter Biden trial," former federal prosecutor Preet Bharara told host Chris Hayes the following: "He could still pardon him; he said he won't do that ... given that it's his son ... pause for a moment and think about how unbelievable that is. In a million years, if the shoe were on the other foot" — Hayes apparently uttered a dismissive huff off camera in this moment — "and Donald Trump was facing the prospect of his son being prosecuted by ... a Biden holdover or Obama holdover prosecutor, not in a million, million years would that have happened. So ... some of the people on the right, the people who support Donald Trump, are trying to cast this as some sort of clever ops program."

A longer clip of Bharara's statement was posted on the "All In with Chris Hayes" X account on June 11.

'It's a great reminder that one political party remains committed to the rule of law, and the other doesn't.'


In an MSNBC clip (5:43 mark), Democrat U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts stated the following on June 11: "Hunter Biden was found guilty by a jury of his peers, just like Donald Trump. Because this is our justice system at work. The divide here is stunning. It's a great reminder that one political party remains committed to the rule of law, and the other doesn't."

According to The Hill, McGovern also said, "The contrast today is just staggering. Apparently, when a Republican is convicted, it’s weaponization. But when a Democrat is convicted — the president’s son, no less — that’s justice. I mean, give me a break."

'One of the things that anybody who spends time around Joe Biden comes to know is that he's had this long-running focus on how much he is bothered by abuses of power.'


Over a CNN screen title that reads, "Biden, for first time, says he won't commute son's sentence," New Yorker writer Evan Osnos — who also authored "Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now" — said that Biden is "really" saying that "I don't plan to use the powers of the office, the powers of the presidency, to provide private relief for my family." Osnos added that, "In a sense, he's staking out a pretty bright line between being, as he says, a president and a dad, and that's not just an emotional expression; he's in effect saying, 'I don't think that I should, I don't have a right, even though it's legal' — and God knows it must be tempting — 'to use this power in a way that is not available to so many other Americans facing similar kinds of struggles.'"

Osnos said in another cut, "There's a kind of old-school, sort of flinty core to [Biden's] conception of how you are to be in the system, how you are to be as a person — a moral person — and ultimately how to contend with questions of power. One of the things that anybody who spends time around Joe Biden comes to know is that he's had this long-running focus on how much he is bothered by abuses of power."

You can view the clip here at the 6:06 mark.

BONUS: 'They're not even his sons; they're just sons of b***hes.'


Another clip (2:30 mark) features Ana Navarro of "The View" and sports a CNN logo on the bottom right of the screen — however, the clip appears to be from the June 14 episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," which began airing Saturdays on CNN earlier this year.

Still, the clip is worth including in this rundown. In it Navarro stated: "Joe Biden has gotten asked if he would pardon his son; he has said no. ... On the other side, you've got Donald Trump who has said that he will pardon the January 6 insurrectionists. They're not even his sons; they're just sons of bitches."

You might be surprised (or maybe not) that Navarro posted a few X entries this week after hearing that Biden did, in fact, pardon his son — and she's backing him all the way.

"Good for @JoeBiden," Navarro noted Monday. "America elected a convicted felon. That convicted felon pardoned his son-in-law’s father and appointed him Ambassador to France. If you support that, I don’t want to hear jack-s**t about Biden pardoning his son."

She also posted Monday that "Woodrow Wilson pardoned his brother-in-law, Hunter deButts. Bill Clinton pardoned his brother, Roger. Donald Trump pardoned his daughter’s father-in-law, Charlie Kushner. And just appointed him Ambassador to France. But tell me again how Joe Biden 'is setting precedent'?"

Not to put too fine a point on it, Navarro posted the following on Tuesday: "Reading all these Trumpers offended Biden LIED! Trump lied about bone spurs, lied about his taxes, lied on his bank loan applications, lied to his wives, lied about hush-money payments, lied about the 2020 election results, lied about Haitians eating cats & dogs ... shall I go on??"

Could it be that she doth protest too much? Nah.

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‘The View’ co-host calls Biden a liar —  and Whoopi Goldberg freaks out



President Biden and his administration consistently denied that he would pardon his son Hunter, but Biden has now done exactly that.

And of course, liberals are defending his decision to do so.

“I respect it as a parent. I understand why he would do it, but I wanted to understand why [he lied] about it for so long,” Alyssa Farah Griffin said in a segment on “The View.”

“I’d stop calling it a lie,” Whoopi Goldberg shot back, defensive.

“For the part of this country, half of it that doesn’t support Biden, doesn’t know him personally,” Griffin continued, ignoring Goldberg’s comment. “They’re just looking at a system that seems like it only benefits the people who are in power. What precedent does that set?”


“It’s a precedent for all of us to open our eyes, because we’ve elected someone who is in a similar situation, who didn’t have a drug problem, who knew what he was doing, who clearly, stood and said, ‘I can do this,’ and he did it,” Goldberg responded, who was joined by Sunny Hostin and Ana Navarro in defending the president.

Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is impressed with Griffin for not blindly kneeling to Biden like everyone else on the panel.

“Alyssa, I know you get the cookie and a couple hundred grand and the pat on the head, but I will give you credit because you are making a distinction. There is a distinction between what one might do for their child if given the power, and then the outright lie,” Rubin says.

“Does someone need to literally Google the word ‘lie’ and show it to Whoopi? A lie would be if you say, ‘I’m not going to pardon my son Hunter,’ and then you pardon your son Hunter. That would be a lie,” he adds.

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Trump should follow Biden’s lead— and PARDON January 6 prisoners



Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter despite numerous pledges not to do so while some January 6 protesters whose crimes don’t even hold a candle to Hunter’s are still sitting in jail.

Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters numerous times that this wouldn’t happen, even going so far as to act exasperated when she was asked.

“It’s still a no, it will be a no. It is a no, and I don’t have anything else to add,” she said in one of many press conferences, and in another, she said, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is no.”

Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute, believes this “decades worth of grace for Hunter” has created “grace and space” for Joe Biden himself.


“These are business dealings in which Joe Biden wouldn’t have just been adjacent,” he tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “Joe Biden was considered an employee of some of Hunter Biden’s businesses when he wasn’t the vice president. So I think by pardoning Hunter, Joe Biden essentially has pardoned himself.”

“We all knew this was going to happen, it’s not a surprise. If it is a surprise, you kind of need to check yourself,” Peterson comments. “But at the same time, actually watching it happen is interesting because there’s fallout politically.”

“And I would love to see actual justice occur in some way,” he adds.

Savage agrees, noting that a large part of the conservative response on social media platforms like X was focused on January 6.

“If they’re going to do that, then Donald Trump should push for the pardons for J6ers immediately,” Savage says.

“Yeah, and I mean, I don’t think they’re comparable. One is terrible injustice and the other is the government acting in a way that’s not compatible with the Constitution. If it helps, great. Like, if it helps people make the case, yeah, let’s do it,” Peterson adds.

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President Joe Biden pardoned his crackhead son Hunter Biden earlier this week despite repeatedly claiming he would not. The announcement came as a shock to the handful of Americans who believed (without evidence) the president was an honest and principled politician committed to upholding the rule of law. Biden's decision to pardon Hunter—after lying about it for months—has thoroughly embarrassed these idiots, and suggests the president, sometimes referred to as "Sleepy Joe," has zero f—s left to give with just a few weeks left in his term. We can't wait to see which degenerate criminals Biden will pardon next. In the meantime, here are 10 humble suggestions we hope he'll consider.

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