If President Biden doesn't pardon Hunter I will really have to question if he understands the trouble we are in.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

These people, including the previous Trump appointed Attorney General, made Michael Cohen’s life in prison miserable just because they could. They will brutalize Hunter.

He needs to issue hundreds of preemptive (meaning for “crimes” supposedly committed but not charged) pardons before he leaves office.

He needs to issue pardons for all his associates that are at risk.

[dalton99a]

1. Absolutely.

including people who worked on his impeachments and the J6 committee

[gab13by13]

2. I agree,

but then Merrick Garland won't have any accomplishments to crow about.

[IbogaProject]

18. Don't pardon Garland, leave him on his own

But most everyone else Joe and his team can think of should get them.

[OLDMDDEM]

3. Hunter, Jack Smith and Kamala should be at the top of the list.

[JI7]

4. He probably thinks it would be used to excuse anything Trump does

[Hassin Bin Sober]

8. Trump is already showing it will be a shit show from day one. So?....

Trump has already pardoned unrepentant drug traffickers and violent felons. He’s vowed to pardon the j6 criminals.

This would be nothing but a blip after the sensible woodchucks tut tut for a couple days. The sooner the better.

Heck, do it while sex offender Gaetz is still on the nomination for AG. He’ll never have a better excuse.

[Shermann]

5. I'd pardon Trump and Hunter together.

The federal charges against Trump will be dismissed anyway. He can package it all up as healing the country and moving forward.

[Prairie Gates]

21. I'd add the following

1) Jack Smith
2) Any member or witness to the January 6 commission
3) Any January 6 conviction that does not explicitly involve violence toward a police officer, sedition, or conspiracy/ insurrection.

The third one will pre-empt Trump and force him to pardon the violent offenders.

[FlyingPiggy]

6. Absolutely agree

[LiberalArkie]

7. I do not believe he does. He has been on the topside of everything for so long.

[irisblue]

11. What type of pizza do you like dogdirt?

Your name seems appropriate for your post.

[W_HAMILTON]

14. Biden is a """bitter old man...?""" I see MAGA is doing that projection thing again!

[LuckyCharms]

15. Awwww. How cute!

[niyad]

17. What flavour pizza do you like?

[Walleye]

10. He hasn't been sentenced yet. If he goes to prison, then I know the justice system is broken down.

[CentralMass]

12. It is evident that iy is btoken already.

[Walleye]

13. They keep loudly bitching about how we tried to put Trump in jail. He has yet to see the inside of a jail cell.

[themaguffin]

16. The country has literally 1000s of bigger issues than Biden pardoning his son

Regardless of the circumstances, that's not a national concern in context of what we face.

[Prairie Gates]

19. Ford pardoned Nixon of ANY federal crimes from his first inauguration through his resignation

ANY. No limitation or condition. January 20, 1969 through Auguist 8, 1974.

Not limited to Watergate related crimes. Just anything that could be construed of as a federal offense that happened between those dates. Biden should take a lesson.

[Deminpenn]

20. Doubt Hunter gets jail time

Not pardoning him keeps Rs from finding something else to charge him with.

[ScratchCat]

22. The reason he should be pardoned is this

Robert Hur was appointed Special Counsel to investigate Hunter Biden's tax issues - nothing more. Once they didn't find what they were hoping, It was Her who decided to go "fishing for felonies" and came up with the gun charge based upon comments Biden made in a book. Garland should have shut it all down - overruled Hur - when he went off the course and to the gun charge. The fact that Garland didn't should have resulted in his termination, but we know why Joe didn't do that. But when freaking Trey Gowdy admits that no person has ever been singularly charged for this and that it really isn't right to do so, you know Her did something not acceptable even to Conservatives.

If I were Hunter and Joe didn't pardon me for the gun charge, I'd never speak to him again.