Charlamagne tha God’s no nonsense message for Democrats after Hunter Biden pardon
Charlamagne Tha God had a simple message for Democrats after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter this weekend: Admit you don’t have the moral high ground.
The 46-year-old radio host, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, endorsed Kamala Harris for president over Donald Trump. But that didn’t stop him from raking his favorite party over the coals.
“I just want Democrats to stop acting like they’re on this moral high ground politically, when they’ve shown us that’s not the case,” The Breakfast Club host said.
“You know, whether it’s skipping the primary process when Biden resigned to things like Biden pardoning his son. Stop pretending like y’all are the pure party and the Republicans aren’t,” he added.
Biden’s rationale for the pardon, which will protect Hunter from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, was to protect his son from what he said was selective and unfair prosecution.
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Department of Justice’s decision-making, and I have kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unjustly prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement. declaration.
“No reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases could come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out solely because he is my son – and that is wrong,” he continued.
Charlamagne strongly disagreed, saying: “Hunter was singled out because he broke the law. That’s number one. He was singled out because he was accused of illegal weapons and tax evasion, not because he was the president’s son.”
Charlamagne tha God, real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, is frustrated as Democrats claim they have the moral high ground even as President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter
With a pardon from Joe Biden, Hunter can avoid prison time for his numerous convictions for gun evasion and tax evasion
“And it also shows me that elected officials can do whatever they want, as long as they have the political will and courage to do it,” he added.
Hunter was convicted in June of lying on a federal government form to purchase a gun and possessing the firearm while on drugs. In September, he pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of tax evasion.
He faced a prison sentence of 25 years on the weapons charges and 17 years on the tax charges, although it was likely he would have served far less than under federal sentencing guidelines.
Now it is guaranteed that Hunter will not spend a day in jail for these crimes.
Critics claimed it was a broadly written pardon an attempt to cover up his actions on the board of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
That’s because Hunter joined Burisma’s board in 2014, the very year Biden extended the pardon.
Hunter was paid millions for his role in the company, despite having no background in the gas or energy sectors.
In 2023, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that the younger Biden helped coordinate a plan with Democratic strategists to “close all cases against the owner of an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company” and “obtain intelligence” on the country’s top prosecutor’s office the country.
Former Ukrainian Attorney General Viktor Shokin publicly claimed that Hunter and then Vice President Joe Biden had him fired over his investigation into Burisma
The emails support former Ukrainian Attorney General Viktor Shokin’s claims that the First Son and his father, then vice president, conspired to end Shokin’s criminal investigation into Burisma.
Another aspect of the controversy is Biden’s complete reversal on granting a reprieve to his son.
Biden said as recently as June that he would “not pardon” his son, unlike Trump, who has said bluntly that he would pardon the January 6 rioters.
The White House has also repeatedly denied that a pardon would be forthcoming.
Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary, has come under fire from reporters aboard Air Force One since she said several weeks ago that a pardon or clemency for Hunter was out of the question.
Jean-Pierre insisted the president was a truthful man who only came to his decision over the weekend, as he said in his Sunday statement.
“First of all, one of the things the president has always believed in is being fair to the American people,” she said. “That’s something he always really believes in.”
President-elect Donald Trump sees Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter as a symptom of a broken justice system politicized by the liberal left, but did not directly criticize the president for the move.
Colorado Governor Jared Polis accused Biden of “putting family before country” with the pardon. He is one of the few Democrats to come out and condemn the president
Trump’s immediate response to Biden’s shock move was to suggest he might pardon the remaining people convicted of rioting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Does Joe’s pardon to Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have been held captive for years now? What an abuse and miscarriage of justice!’ Trump wrote.
Even other prominent members of Biden’s own party criticized him, including Colorado Governor Jared Polis.
“While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he has put his family before country,” Polis wrote.
“This is a bad precedent that could be abused by future presidents and will unfortunately tarnish his reputation.”
Congressman Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat, said that while he respects the president, Biden’got this one wrong.’
“This was not a politically motivated prosecution. Hunter committed crimes and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” Stanton wrote on X.