WTH: Biden Pardons Hunter! Professor Jonathan Turley Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 6 December 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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After repeatedly pledging to the American people that he would not pardon his son Hunter, Joe Biden gave his son one of the most sweeping pardons in presidential history. The presidential pardon power has a long history of abuse, but never before has a pardon been so broad, over such a long period of time, and issued by someone possibly implicated in the case. Why did Biden choose to pardon his son now? And what does the pardon mean for the future of political lawfare?
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. At GWU, he is also the Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center, and Executive Director of the Project for Older Prisoners. Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, and members of Congress, and has testified before Congress over 100 times. His latest book is The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Simon and Schuster, 2024).
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.0 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. What hell's going on? |
| 0:01.1 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.8 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.5 | Mark, who the hell is Joe Biden going to pardon next? Maybe you. |
| 0:41.7 | I wouldn't hold my breath, but unlike his son, I don't need a pardon because I haven't committed any crimes. |
| 0:47.8 | There you go. But, I mean, this was just unbelievable. He said, you can go the litany over and over and over again of Joe Biden |
| 0:56.1 | saying that he wouldn't do this. Karin Jean-Pierre, the most excreable press secretary in the |
| 1:02.7 | history of the White House press office, constantly saying he's not going to do it, never chance, |
| 1:07.6 | wouldn't do it. The Democrats with their grandstanding about the rule of law, |
| 1:12.6 | in fact, we got a little litany of Democrats talking about no one is above the law. Let's play that. |
| 1:18.0 | No one is above the law. No one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. No one is above the law. Nobody is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law. No one is above the law. |
| 1:27.8 | Nobody is above the law. |
| 1:29.6 | No one is above the law. |
| 1:31.4 | No one is above the law. |
| 1:33.0 | No one is above the law. |
| 1:37.0 | No one is above the law. |
| 1:39.3 | It's like, no one is above the law, Danny, except for Hunter Biden. |
| 1:42.7 | Let me read everybody the full and unconditional pardon because it trips off the lips. |
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