#Markets: POTUS Pardon Power and the Bidens.Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News and Fox Business
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Once upon a time, Amazon Music met audiobooks and listeners everywhere rejoiced. |
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| 0:06.6 | Because now they could listen to one audiobook title a month from an enormous library of popular |
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| 0:28.4 | listening. Terms apply. I'm John Thatcher with my colleague Elizabeth Peek who writes a column |
| 0:37.4 | for the Hill and column for Fox News. |
| 0:39.8 | And Liz has a new column up at Fox News I recommend because it summarizes doubts that have been introduced in these last days by reporters and by those who analyze the president's pardon power. |
| 0:56.5 | As I understand it, the short version is this. |
| 0:59.6 | Mr. Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, |
| 1:03.5 | for crimes that were about to be sentenced, |
| 1:06.2 | tax evasion and weapons charge. |
| 1:09.9 | He pardoned him not only for the events themselves, but starting back |
| 1:14.5 | in 2014, which was a puzzle until it was interpreted for me by Andrew McCarthy, a former |
| 1:19.8 | prosecutor now at the National Review Online. The anticipation, Andy guided me, was that Mr. Biden will continue to pardon members of his own |
| 1:29.9 | family having to do with the $27 million that James Comer's oversight committee in the House |
| 1:36.5 | of Representatives has identified as flowing through to the Biden family from parts unknown, |
| 1:43.8 | influence peddlingdling or mysterious. |
| 1:47.2 | All of that is the short version. |
| 1:49.5 | There's a much longer version, but Liz, you've written of the pardon power. |
| 1:53.8 | And it's very worrisome because it could easily start the new administration with storm clouds. |
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