Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
4. Trump and his congressional sycophants unleased a mighty fury on Weiss, publicly criticizing him and repeatedly attacking him to get him to kill any immunity provision and to come down hard on Biden. <---- IOW, the prosecution became "infected" by politics. Weiss then asked for Special Counsel status...

5. ...and under the unrelenting pressure by Trump and his congressional shitbags, Weiss indicted Hunter for three felony gun charges in Delaware and nine tax charges in California.

I know this is your GBF post (and I hope you reconsider) - but I do want to point out that these claims agree with Trump's criticism of the DoJ. Which is why it's so damaging that Biden echoed them. Because you're asserting that the DoJ made their charging decision not through applying independent prosecutorial judgment, but in response to political pressure. Which is exactly what Trump claims happened to him. And if the DoJ can't be independent in the face of political pressure from the opposition party in making decisions about prosecuting the President's son, how can they be expected to be independent in the face of the President's party to prosecute the President's opponent?

That's why Biden's statement is so appalling. He's agreeing with the Trump framing of the DoJ. That they make prosecutorial decisions based on politics, rather than the merits of the case. Rather than acknowledging that his son committed crimes and was legitimately prosecuted for them, Biden claimed that DoJ would never have prosecuted him if he wasn't named Biden. Which is exactly Trump's argument in all the NY cases - that only because he was in the political arena did the NY prosecutors start fly-specking all his business transactions in a way that they never would have absent his political career, and that they reversed a decision not to prosecute him in response to massive political pressure from Democrats.

Hunter Biden was the counter-argument - an example of a politically independent law enforcement agency pursuing the law regardless of who the suspect was. And Biden undercut that by claiming that DoJ prosecuted someone they never would have prosecuted but for political motivation.