Conservative political analyst Scott Jennings unloaded on Democrats defending President Joe Biden’s bombshell decision to pardon his son Hunter on Sunday, declaring “brain rotted” party faithful are bending over backwards to defend a move that they likely would have impeached President-elect Donald Trump for if he had done the same.
Appearing on CNN, Jennings told liberal panelists they can “spend all day long” trying to rationalize how Hunter’s felony conviction is “somehow Trump’s fault,” but at the end of the day the Justice Department insisted that its decision to prosecute the embattled first son was free from political meddling. “This is the worst possible thing a president could possibly do to his party and to the country,” he added.
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Biden, who aggressively insisted for most of the past year that he would not pardon his son, went much further than precedent in pardoning Hunter for felony tax evasion and gun charges, immunizing him for a period of 11 years rather than pointedly singling out particular actions or circumstances. The decision is a break with precedent such as President Bill Clinton’s decision to pardon his brother-in-law on drug crimes or