Welcome to The Lost Debata Show for Politically Ecclectics. I'm Robbie Gupta. And in this episode,

I'm just going to empty my notebook and talk about a couple of items that I know a lot of you are thinking about right now.

Let's start with this Hunter Biden pardon. So getting a lot of message from you, just asking like,

what do I think of this pardon?

Well, let me be as clear as possible.

I think this is really bad for a couple of reasons.

Number one, Biden repeatedly ruled out pardoning Hunter when he was running for president.

He was very clear about that.

Members of his staff were really clear about that.

So when it was in his electoral

interest, he made a promise to the American public. And now he is reneging on that promise. And there

haven't been any facts that have changed on the ground. If he, for instance, were to say, you know what, I couldn't have anticipated

somebody like Cash Patel being the FBI director or Pam Bondi as the head of the DOJ, and there

are statements that those people have made that may be very concerned for Hunter Biden, maybe I would

take it seriously. But he hasn't really cited any facts on the ground that have

changed, and he repeatedly said that as a matter of principle, he would defer to the justice

system. He talked about how he was appointing a Trump-appointed former U.S. attorney from Delaware

to lead the investigation and let them do their work.

And it just shows that, although I think the gold medal in politics for lying goes to Trump,

I would give the silver medal here to Biden, not because the volume of lies in anywhere

approaches Trump, but I do think that there were two very high profile,

memorable, important lies at the center of Biden's public life over the past year and beyond.

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