The liberal media said all those times Biden wouldn’t pardon Hunter because of his ‘great character’ while he was ripping Trump

Joe Biden’s decision to grant his son Hunter a blanket pardon for past crimes over a decade came as a shock to liberal media pundits who have been fiercely insistent that the president not let his son go.

Biden and his team repeatedly told the press that he had ruled out a pardon for Hunter even after he was convicted of gun crimes in Delaware and pleaded guilty to tax violations in California.

‘I said I would abide by the jury’s decision, and I will. And I will not pardon him,” Biden told reporters after the conviction in the gun case.

Hunter could have faced decades in prison had his father not pardoned him in a surprise announcement made Sunday night.

‘I said I would abide by the jury’s decision, and I will. And I will not pardon him,” Biden told reporters after the gun crimes trial.

At the time, cable news hosts and pundits rallied behind Biden, praising him for his commitment to the rule of law, even when it involved his own son.

Jen Psaki, MSNBC host and Biden’s former press secretary, called the president’s decision a testament to his principled honor and character.

“The justice system that convicted his only surviving son is the same justice system he promised to protect,” Psaki said in June. “If that doesn’t tell you who Joe Biden is, I don’t know what will.”

MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski cited Biden’s decision as evidence that he was a more respectful president than former President Donald Trump.

“The current president of the United States has such respect for the law that he has said he would not pardon his son. Again, it’s all about the contrast,” she said.

A supercut video of pundits praising Biden in June for accepting the outcome of Hunter’s trial went viral online Monday morning, after the president announced his decision Sunday to pardon him after all.

Other pundits on MSNBC said Biden was “so impressive” and even compared him to George Washington for showing restraint, accepting the outcome of his son’s trial and promising not to pardon Hunter.

Former acting U.S. Solicitor General Neil Katyal said Biden’s statement was proof that Trump supporters were wrong about a political justice system that had been “politicized” against them and Trump.

“I don’t know any other word for that than presidential,” he said.

Joy Reid on MSNBC

Mika Brzezinski once praised Biden’s decision not to pardon Hunter as proof that he was more virtuous than Trump

Others agreed.

“He could have ordered the Justice Department to drop the Justice Department’s investigation into Joe Biden,” MSNBC host Joy Reid said. “Everyone understands he’s a decent man.”

Commenter Molly Jong-Fast shared a similar assessment.

“I think Joe Biden has an opportunity here to stand up for the rule of law here, to say the law is the law no matter who it is, whether it’s Trump or Biden,” she said, warning of the “ dangerousness’ of Trump. of destroying the rule of law.

Evan Osnos, New Yorker reporter and author of a book about Biden, said it was part of Biden’s appeal to the American electorate.

“There’s a kind of old-fashioned core to his view of how to be in the system, how to be a person, a moral person, and ultimately how to deal with issues of power,” he said.

MSNBC host Katy Tur described Biden’s pledge not to pardon his son as “a good day for the United States because this conviction is a great example of the way our justice system should work.”

“This was a good day for the system, a good day for a kind of America as an example of how the rule of law should work,” Chuck Todd agreed.

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will face more questions from reporters as she returns to the briefing room to defend the president’s abrupt change of heart.

Jean-Pierre repeatedly denied that Biden would pardon Hunter, and grew frustrated when reporters kept asking her to confirm her answer.

“So I’ve answered this question before. I was asked not so long ago, a few weeks ago, and I was very clear and said no,” Jean-Pierre told a journalist in September.