r/moderatepolitics • u/EstebanTrabajos • 25d ago

'Kids for Cash' Judge has sentence commuted by President Biden News Article

https://www.wnep.com/article/news/investigations/action-16/kids-for-cash-the-new-crisis/kids-for-cash-judge-has-sentence-commuted-by-president-biden-pennsylvania/523-1be56573-6940-4e45-8daa-5a03abd67464
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u/That_Shape_1094 25d ago

The media needs to do its job, and ask Democrats what they think about this specific pardon case.

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u/Firehawk526 25d ago

Something something but Donald Trump. That's it.

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot 24d ago

Fascism!!

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u/BabaRoomFan 22d ago

Every single time I see a liberal/democrat being asked about the pardons/commutes it's always just "B-buh drumph was elected!!! he's criminal!!! doesn't matter nothing matters trump won" it's like speaking to actual toddlers

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u/abuchewbacca1995 25d ago

They'll answer it the same way they answered the hunter Biden pardon

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u/Xalimata 24d ago

I mean this one seems worse. Without even the fact that its his son as defense.

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u/Blurry_Bigfoot 24d ago

This is objectively worse than

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u/Xalimata 24d ago

Yeah I don't really know why he'd do this. I can justify doing for your son (while not super liking it) but this...this.

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u/TheDan225 Maximum Malarkey 25d ago

"they just keep wanting to investigate him!!"

(Whilst completely ignoring both the unparalleled hypocrisy of that excuse and excusing not investigating possible crime due to 'But trump')

America overwhelmingly just had a referendum on this behavior but the left WILL NOT LEARN. Its astounding

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u/khrijunk 24d ago

It is hard to talk about the Hunter Biden pardon without taking about republicans because they went after him for stuff they would normally defend. 

A gun charge?  Anyone else could go on Fox News and complain about their second amnement rights. 

Tax fraud?  That was hard to hear while republicans were excusing the Trump organization’s tax fraud case and calling it politically motivated. 

Nepotism?  We all lived through the first Trump admin where he gave political appointments to his children. 

So the main reason for not reacting negatively towards the Hunter pardon is because going after him was politically motivated. 

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u/ricerbanana 24d ago

The gun charge wasn’t for simply possessing without a license or something similarly administrative. It’s for possession by a drug user, and lying on the federal background check form. It’s extremely hypocritical of dems to defend this for the mere fact that they are the ones who want more stringent background checks and qualifications for who gets to possess a gun.

It’s not hypocritical of republicans to prosecute Hunter. If it was someone else, republicans absolutely would not defend a drug addict’s right to possess a gun, especially when lying about it. Republicans are pretty anti drug and support strong anti drug legislation.

That’s my biased view of it, anyway.

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u/Inside_Drummer 24d ago

I think the drug related gun charge against Hunter was as biased and inappropriate as the NY campaign finance case against Trump. It's two situations where normally people are not charged. The Trump case was a weird bank shot to turn it into a felony. The charge against Hunter could be brought against millions of Americans.

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u/SymphonicAnarchy 24d ago

I’ll agree on that one. They were both targeted for who they were. But Hunter didn’t get his sentence just commuted, he got the broadest presidential pardon in US History. Almost 11 years of pardons for any crime he committed, or MAY have committed since January 1st 2014. If this was just about the gun charge, you might have a point. But millions of Americans weren’t using their father’s name to get into Burisma and make some back room deals while he was still VPOTUS.

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u/Inside_Drummer 24d ago

I fully agree it's not good for our democracy to have the president issuing blanket pardons to his children. It's legal corruption.

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u/AMMO31090745 24d ago

I would argue average Americans never get involved in presidential campaign related crime, but they get chipped for firearms related “crime” all the time, spend tens of thousands of dollars in litigation fees whether they’re found guilty or innocent & don’t get pardoned for that “crime” & the other shit they may have done.

Simple possession of a magazine over 10 rounds in CA. https://abc30.com/freedom-week-pheng-yang-gun-law-challenge-tulare-county/6241874/

Simple possession in a vehicle. https://www.calgunlawyers.com/torrance-quietly-repeals-restrictive-gun-laws/

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u/SymphonicAnarchy 24d ago

Right. NY business men also don’t typically get called out on refinancing errors, especially when there was no victim and no losses. And they certainly don’t get fined 500k. I think we can find common ground in saying that these were political persecutions.

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u/Individual_Brother13 24d ago

"This behavior," Trump pardoned & commuted people for the same if not worse acts than Hunter Biden. He pardoned Lil Wayne, who carried a rifle & drugs on his flight. Commuted Kodak black who was carrying a weapon through the border & made false statements on federal forms for a gun. Trump pardoned them in a blatant quid pro quo for their public endorsement. & he also commuted Charles Kushner for his tax charges. And pardoned soldiers that killed innocent civilians. Please, let's not act like Trumps/conservatives shit don't stink.

Many Americans just want inflation down. If Trumps corruption, ethics & character were a major deciding factor, then he wouldn't have been elected.

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u/random3223 25d ago

Unlikely. This person wasn’t subjected to constant lies from right wing politicians and media.

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u/abuchewbacca1995 25d ago

Bro,

Hunter wasn't targeted, he did said crimes and even had a lighter punishment than most that get caught

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u/random3223 24d ago

Hunter wasn't targeted

I said lies:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/politics/david-weiss-fbi-informant-alexander-smirnov-plea/index.html

https://old.reddit.com/r/moderatepolitics/comments/1hcxlvd/fbi_informant_accused_of_lying_about_joe_and/

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u/abuchewbacca1995 24d ago

And hunter STILL had lighter crimes than anyone else who would've done his crime

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u/random3223 24d ago

And hunter STILL had lighter crimes than anyone else who would've done his crime

I agree. Hunter had lighter crimes than anyone else.

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u/CorndogFiddlesticks 24d ago

If they actually asked questions regardless of party, perhaps there would be more trust in the media....

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u/paulydavis 23d ago

As a Democrat I will say it’s wrong. Now go ask a Trump supporter about anything against Trump. I was appalled about what Biden did.

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u/Amrak4tsoper 20d ago

Things that will never happen

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u/buyingbusiness 24d ago

We should be asking all of them. Not just democrats. That’s the part you’re missing. Republicans have also had terrible pardons. People are criticizing Biden for pardoning Hunter, but won’t criticize Trump for pardoning his son in law’s father.

It’s hard to talk to people about ethics when hypocrisy comes into play.