WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — After a dramatic and unexpected Sunday Evening "full and unconditional" pardon of son Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden is facing a rapidly growing chorus of blowback from within his own Democrat Party as state and national party leaders are raising their voices in criticism to object to Mr. Biden’s now-abandoned pledge to not interfere in son Hunter’s myriad of legal problems – which was repeatedly and adamantly sold to the American Public as Joe Biden's principled stand to maintain the independence of the U.S. Justice System from weaponization, legal warfare and political influence.
What are voters to make of that idea now, as it turns out the professed separation was not so sacrosanct after all for the Biden's and the Democrat Party?
In the eyes of many leading Democrats – who are facing unrelenting questions about the matter – Joe Biden has ceded the "moral high ground" that and his Democrat Party have supposedly spent years staking out – all while doing everything within their power to use such lawfare and weaponization to eliminate Donald Trump's chances of returning to the White House.
The number of Democrats criticizing Biden grew steadily Monday.
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“This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution – Hunter committed felonies and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” said Arizona Democrat Cong. Greg Stanton, insisting that President Biden was “wrong” in saying he pardoned his son because he saw it as "a miscarriage of justice" inspired by politics, rather than criminal gun and tax evasion convictions.
“A pardon at this point will be used against, I think, Democrats who were pushing to defend the Department of Justice against politicizing it, which is certainly what President Trump plans to do,” said Congressman Glenn Ivey (D-MD.,) framing Biden’s startling action as a gift to Trump DURING a CNN interview.
Leading Senator Gary Peters, who serves as chairman of the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, simply called it “wrong.”
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Colorado Democrat Senator Michael Bennet also blasted Mr. Biden Monday, directly accusing him of putting his “personal interest ahead of duty” in such a way as to whittle away “Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.”
Bennet said he doesn't believe the pardon will help Mr. Biden's legacy, and called it a "gift to Donald Trump."
"It just gives the American people the sense that there's one system for the rich and powerful – and another system for everybody else," Bennet said in an interview on CNN.
"It's in that terrible context that this decision was made by the president."
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, another prominent Democrat, said Biden’s decision would “tarnish” his legacy.
“This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents, and will sadly tarnish his reputation.
"When you become President, your role is Pater familias of the nation.”
Gov. Polis went further, disputing Biden’s argument made in a statement released by the White House Sunday evening that Hunter Biden had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.”
“Hunter brought the legal trouble he faced on himself, and one can sympathize with his struggles while also acknowledging that no one is above the law – not a President, and not a President’s son,” Polis wrote on X.
But Democrats are bothered by more than the specifics of Hunter Biden’s misdeeds.
Cong. Dan Goldman (D-NY) cited Biden’s previous vows not to pardon his son – and said it was “discouraging that he has now gone back on his word on that.”
President-Elect Trump will soon be seeking the confirmation of his new cabinet's nominees, several of which Democrats are already attempting to label as controversial.To date Democrat's complaints against certain targeted nominees has been rooted in the idea that they would "use" the Department of Justice or the FBI (and others) to do Mr. Trump’s "bidding" – and have even accused them far ahead of any Senate confirmation hearings of afflicting his enemies, while coddling his friends.
Thanks to Joe Biden, the problem now becomes one that is hypocritical for Democrats at worst, or an argument over degrees at best.
As they desperately search for ways to fight back against Mr. Trump's rapid movement toward taking the helm to lead the nation, Democrats find themselves arguing over shades of gray rather than black-and-white contrasts of distinction with Trump and Senate Republicans.
Joe Biden – who has portrayed himself and his party as being antidotes to President-elect Trump's alleged propensity for interfering in "the justice system" – has instead followed his own criticisms of Trump and set an example by using the powers of the United States Presidency to benefit his 54-year-old son who might otherwise have been sentenced to prison on felony charges in weeks.To make the already frayed inter-party battles worse, Congressional Democrats admit privately that Biden knew his Sunday pardon would – after saying all year he would not intervene – bring a never-ending round of media attention while setting off howls and forced criticism within the Democrat Party at a key juncture of post-election positioning.
Mr. Biden publicly insisted for years he would not pardon his son – or commute any prison sentence that he feared Hunter Biden would receive – until Sunday.
Then, he went ahead and made the move anyway.
