(NewsNation) — Lawmakers from both sides of the aisle reacted Sunday to news President Joe Biden pardomed for his son Hunter Biden for tax and gun charges.
Here is what is being said on social media:
Rep. Jim Jordan: https://x.com/Jim_Jordan/status/1863393745279836297
“Democrats said there was nothing to our impeachment inquiry. If that’s the case, why did Joe Biden just issue Hunter Biden a pardon for the very things we were inquiring about?”
Sen. Chuck Grassley: https://x.com/ChuckGrassley/status/1863390444802953689
“I’m shocked Pres Biden pardoned his son Hunter bc he said many many times he wouldn’t & I believed him Shame on me”
Eric Holder: https://x.com/EricHolder/status/1863389327310692525
“Hunter Here’s the reality. No USAtty would have charged this case given the underlying facts. After a 5 year investigation the facts as discovered only made that clear. Had his name been Joe Smith the resolution would have been – fundamentally and more fairly – a declination. Pardon warranted. Ask yourself a vastly more important question. Do you really think Kash Patel is qualified to lead the world’s preeminent law enforcement investigative organization? Obvious answer: hell no.”
Rep. Wesley Hunt: https://x.com/WesleyHuntTX/status/1863386103249617313
“Joe Biden just did the thing he told us he would never do, PARDONING his son for crimes he and the majority of the media told us he never committed. The Biden Crime Family played the only card they had left, using the power of the pardon before America’s President returns to the White House.”
Rep. James Comer: https://x.com/RepJamesComer/status/1863387110339961024
“Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family’s corrupt influence peddling activities. Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son’s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden. The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people. It’s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability.”
Marjorie Taylor Greene: https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1863386650153230425
“Hunter Biden broke gun laws, he broke the FARA Act, and worst of all, he broke the Mann Act by sex trafficking women across the country. This pardon is Joe Biden’s admission that Hunter is a criminal. Biden tried to throw President Trump’s sons in jail, but he lets his son off free even though he’s a convict. His FBI and DOJ raided Barron’s bedroom and Melania’s closet at Mar-a-Lago. Joe Biden is a liar and a hypocrite, all the way to the end.”
IRS whistleblowers: https://x.com/EMPOWR_us/status/1863392448954671336
IRS Whistleblowers Supervisory Special Agent Gary Shapley and Special Agent Joe Zieg, “No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the President’s son off the hook for multiple felonies. We did our duty, told the truth, and followed the law. Anyone reading the President’s excuses now should remember that Hunter Biden admitted to his tax crimes in federal court, that Hunter Biden’s attorneys have targeted us for our lawful whistleblower disclosures, and that we are suing one of those attorneys for smearing us with false accusations. “President Biden has the power to put his thumb on the scales of justice for his son, but at least he had to do it with a pardon explicitly for all the world to see rather than his political appointees doing it secretly behind the scenes. Either way it is a sad day for law abiding taxpayers to witness this special privilege for the powerful.”