Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
How so? Because the DOJ prosecuted Hunter Biden? Explain how that works.

Sigh. Because Biden saw fit to attribute his pardon to Hunter's case being politicized.

Had Biden simply explained his decision as personal - a loving father facing a difficult choice - it would certainly have opened him up to criticism. But it would have left the DoJ alone.

Instead, Biden criticized the DoJ process. He claimed that politics was involved in the DoJ's choices - that Hunter was prosecuted only because he was Biden's son. Or as his press secretary put it today, that "the raw politics infected the process and led to a miscarriage of justice."

That's a crippling accusation to levy against the DoJ. All of this took place while Biden was President - the "raw politics" wasn't even coming from inside the Administration. Some committee chairs? Media talking heads?If DoJ can't resist that - if they can't handle a case involving a political figure fairly even in the absence of pressure from the President - then that's a massive defect in the institution. It's never easy to handle the politics of high-profile cases, and I can't imagine how hard it must have been internally in DoJ on how to handle a criminal case against the sitting President's son. But it's hard to see how the "raw politics" could have infected the process unless there's something seriously wrong with DoJ as an institution.

The right answer, of course, is that DoJ didn't let raw politics infect the process, and Hunter didn't suffer a miscarriage of justice. But because Biden Sr. didn't want to be remembered as the guy who pardoned his son for personal (arguably selfish) reasons, he decided to cloak the decision in a claim that DoJ did something wrong.....

.....which plays right into Trump's hands. If DoJ couldn't be trusted to resist "raw politics" to treat the President's son fairly, how can they be trusted to resist "raw politics" to treat the President's opponent fairly? Just an appalling thing to lay at DoJ's feet.