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@cristo71
If you don’t believe Biden would have pardoned his son ANYWAY, you are only fooling yourself…
As I've already made clear, I fully accept as a reasonable possibility that Biden planned to pardon his son either way, I just find out more plausible that he would not have had the circumstances been different.
You are the only who only sees one possiblity and disregards any other regardless of how reasonable they may be. I'm not the one who's insulated myself into a comfortable cognitive bubble.
Try this on for size:“Trump did say several times when asked that he would not pardon his son Donald, Jr. But when he found the case against Donald, Jr. turning out to be a sham he reversed his decision and pardoned Donald, Jr.”
Donald Trump would never say that and you know it. Instead he would say "well we'll have to see if the justice system treats him fairly" by which he means 'if he's acquitted then it proves he's innocent, if he's convicted that proves it was a witch-hunt'.
But we both also know it would never get to that. 2016 Trump would have allowed Don Jr. To be prosecuted because he didn't feel like he had any choice but to allow it. 2024 Trump knows he can get away with anything he wants, so he would never in hell allow him to be prosecuted, he wouldn't even allow him to be investigated. Tell me you actually believe Trump would allow a prosecutor in his DOJ open an investigation into any of the Trump's and still have a job before they go to sleep that night. Go on...
Meanwhile Joe came into office and went out of his way to keep the prosecutor investigating Hunter in his post, despite that being a post that would be replaced in any other transition. That's the difference between a president who respects the rule of law vs one that doesn't. Trump has never talked about the importance of respecting the process unless it was his political opponents being prosecuted.
