Comments by "" (@zachrodan7543) on "The Hunter Biden Pardon Is An Abuse of Power" video.

  1. I would suspect that, while he didn't say it explicitly, this pardon may have been intended as a defensive measure to prevent the incoming trump administration from meddling in or exascerbating hunter biden's legal situation: it is not unreasonable to imagine that had hunter biden not been pardonned, the incoming trump administration justice department could make things intollerable for hunter biden, just as they used hunter biden's legal situation for political purposes in the past as ammunition to attack joe biden during the election. I do get the argument that it is an abuse of power, but i would rebut that argument by pointing to the distinct possibility that without this pardon, hunter biden would be the victim of much greater abuses of power under the next administration (which has promised vengeance against its political opponents, something which it surely lacks the legal authority to do, but which it might be making the rules for itself amyways and thus just go around thay lack of authority by the power of cronyism)
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  2. Specifically, as you stated at 2:10 "President Biden said he would not pardon Hunter Biden because he believed in the due process of law". With the rhetoric trump and his allies have spewed, I think it is hard for anyone in their right mind to believe that due process of law and the underlying aspects that it relies on (impartiality of courts and the legal system as a whole, for instance), would be intact under the incoming administration. I would argue the trump rhetoric makes it rather foolhardy to believe thay trump and cronies would continue to adhere to that due process of law which biden was so eager to believe in.
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