Liberal ESPN host Stephen A. Smith slammed Biden in a recent appearance with Chris Cuomo on Newsnation over his bogus claims that Hunter Biden was prosecuted “only because he is my son.”
As The Gateway Pundit reported, Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, on Sunday, absolving him of any federal crimes committed between 2014 and 2024.
In June, Hunter Biden was found guilty of three felony gun charges. A few months later, he pleaded guilty to federal tax offenses that amounted to three felonies and six misdemeanors.
The sweeping pardon denies prosecution for any crime he may have committed. This includes the cocaine found in the White House, any financial crimes, and the Biden family’s influence peddling that Hunter was involved in since he joined Ukraine energy firm Burisma’s board of directors in 2014.
Hunter is now exempt from prosecution for emails where he shared classified information with Ukrainian business partners like Burisma board members. He will also not be prosecuted for taking a gift of diamonds from China, likely in exchange for classified information.
This comes after Joe Biden, the White House, high-ranking Democrats, and the leftwing media lied for months and said Hunter Biden wouldn’t receive a pardon, citing their respect for the rule of law.
However, Smith isn’t as mad about Biden’s lies as he is about Biden’s excuse for pardoning Hunter. Joe Biden claimed that Hunter was being persecuted by “political opponents” and that he “was singled out”–by Biden’s own Department of Justice–“only because he is my son.”
And the leftist media ran with that narrative, even taking it a step further and justifying the timeline of the pardon by claiming Trump was going to unjustly target Hunter Biden. One crazy leftist on CNN even claimed that Trump would put Hunter Biden to death by firing squad.
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“Please, everybody and their grandmother knew he was going to pardon his son, but to come out and to start talking about it’s been a witch hunt, and the Department of Justice and others were after him, or whoever it was?” Smith said. “Well, wait a minute. What have you all been doing with Donald Trump all these years?”
“You had folks on the left who were hell-bent on going after Donald Trump because they were determined to make sure that he couldn’t run for reelection or that these elements would get in the way of him possibly winning reelection,” Smith continued. “They weren’t confident they would ever be able to beat him.”
Smith has broken away from the Democrats several times and given more logical takes on politics recently, likely, however, to appeal to his audience of sports fans. Smith said that he was voting for Kamala before the 2024 election.
WATCH:
Smith: The Biden situation disgusted me in terms of the pardon, only from this standpoint Chris: Nobody on the planet— you want to be a cynic and you want to act like you would be offended by something like that if you one of those people out there, fine, but no one within reason would have a problem with him saying, “This is my son. I love him. There’s no way I’m sending him to jail, and I have the power to avoid it.” Nobody would blame him for that, but that’s not where he went. So I didn’t have a problem, to answer your question, directly with the decision that he made to pardon his son, Booboo the fool knew he was going to do that. I don’t care who he stood in front of or sat in front of and said that he wasn’t going to pardon his son, and he was just going to go by the letter of the law. Please, everybody and their grandmother knew he was going to pardon his son, but to come out and to start talking about it’s been a witch hunt, and the Department of Justice and others were after him, or whoever it was, and you know, GOP rather was after him?
Well, wait a minute, what have you all been doing with Donald Trump all of these years? Now you can make an argument about the legitimacy of the cases against Donald Trump compared to what wasn’t legitimate, etc. That’s not the point. The point is, it was clearly politicized. You had folks on the left who were hell-bent on going after Donald Trump because they were determined to make sure that he couldn’t run for re-election, or that these elements would get in the way of him possibly winning reelection, and now we know why more than ever, because they weren’t confident they would ever be able to beat him. He’d been a Republican nominee since 2016, he beat Hillary Clinton with the electoral college vote, he wouldn’t concede defeat in 2020, but he did receive over 74 million votes at that particular moment in time.
And then you fast forward four years later, despite the 34 felony convictions, the two impeachments, the bevy of crimes that he had been accused of, the Republican voters out there, the conservative voters out there, and a lot of independents from various communities said, “he’s the guy we want.” And I’ve said it on many, many occasions, it wasn’t about him, just like it wasn’t about Biden in 2020. It was more against Trump. In this particular instance, it was an indictment against the Biden administration, what had been going on for the last four years, some of the things going on with the border, obviously inflation, of course crime in the streets, of course woke and cancel culture, and all of that. It all played a role. And so for him to come out and to talk about that this was a witch hunt when clearly it could be argued, that’s exactly what you were doing to Donald Trump, what you assisted in doing, seems beyond hypocritical, and that was what disgusted me. It wasn’t his decision. It wasn’t him pardoning his son. It was the weak, pathetic explanation that he gave, which has most critics just shaking their heads and raising their eyebrows and saying, What nerve you have?
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