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Joe Biden Only Needs One Word To Mock Trump In His Final TV Interview

In his final TV interview, President Joe Biden told MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell Thursday evening that Donald Trump won the 2024 election over Kamala Harris because he was a better “huckster.”

If you listen closely, you can hear Trump yelling angrily all the way from Florida.

“I’m not a very good huckster,” Biden noted. “That wasn’t a stupid thing for [President-elect Donald Trump] to do. It helped him a lot and it undermined our ability to convince people that we were the ones that were getting this to them.”

Biden also noted that he’s worried about the future of the United States with Trump in power, especially since he’s surrounding himself with some very dangerous associates.

“You’ve known me a long time. I really am concerned about how fragile democracy is. That sounds corny, but I really am concerned, because you have heard me say it a hundred times.”

“I really think we’re in an inflection point in history here, where, unrelated to any particular leader, things are going to change drastically.”

However, Biden added that Americans should be hopeful if only because there are institutions which will help keep Trump in check, if they manage to withstand the pressures that will be applied to them.

“The reason for all the safeguards out there is, in a very trite way to say it, is to keep the bullies from taking advantage of everybody else. I guess what I’m worried about is that the thing that keeps it on track are the guardrails: that there’s a Supreme Court that’s independent, but accountable. There is a Congress that you speak your mind, but you’re held accountable to basic standards. There’s a presidency that says you have really limited powers. I mean, you’re the top dog, but you can’t dictate everything.”

Let’s hope those guardrails hold and the republic doesn’t collapse.

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Fox Host Absurdly Claims ‘Donald Trump Would Have Pardoned Hunter Biden’

According to some of the on-air employees who work at the bullshit factory that has the nerve to call itself Fox “News,” there was no reason for President Joe Biden to pardon his son, Hunter, because President-elect Donald Trump would have gladly done the same when he takes office in January of next year.

During a discussion this morning of the full pardon issued by President Biden on Sunday evening, Fox host Lawerence Jones remarked, “You know, as I think the fear may have been misplaced, though, I think that the Democrats, including the president, Joe Biden, thought that Donald Trump would treat them like they treated him with political prosecution. I think they’re wrong. I think Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden.”

“I think we would have gotten some type of report about the corruption and what’s been happening in Department of Justice,” he continued. “I think he’s going to clean house when it comes to the FBI and Department of Justice, but I don’t think he would have went after Hunter Biden.”

Co-host Steve Doocy agreed that Trump “probably would have gone ahead and pardoned him.”

“The only difference is if Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden, you know, in 50-some-odd days, is it wouldn’t be for that 10 year period,” Doocy continued. “It would just be for those two things that he’s been convicted but not sentenced to a good point.”

What a load of shit! Donald Trump’s own reaction to the pardon of Hunter Biden directly undercut what Jones and Doocy claimed.

On social media, Trump wrote, “Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”

As Steve Benen of MSNBC notes, “Trump’s list of scandalous pardon abuses is so long, it could be a lengthy book. The names should be familiar: Paul Manafort. Michael Flynn. Steve Bannon. Roger Stone. Seven different Republican members of Congress who were locked up for corruption crimes.”

“Trump saw presidential pardons as get-out-of-jail-free cards for his friends and associates, engaging in the kind of brazen corruption that would’ve defined his term were it not eclipsed by other breathtaking scandals.”

Donald Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden? That’s not the least bit plausible. Trump only helps those who can help him. He’s a selfish bastard who, unlike Hunter Biden, deserves to spend the rest of his life behind bars.

 

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Jasmine Crockett Has The Perfect Clapback For Republicans Whining About The Hunter Biden Pardon

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) masterfully slammed Republicans for their blatant hypocrisy regarding President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, which was announced Sunday evening by the White House.

Appearing on MSNBC shortly after news of the pardon broke, Crockett noted, “Because at the end of the day, we know that we have a 34-count convicted felon that is about to walk into the White House.”

Crockett also had a brilliant clapback aimed at “anyone who wants to clutch their pearls” over the president pardoning his son, who was convicted in June of illegally possessing a gun and also pleaded guilty in September for a tax offense.

“I would say take a look in the mirror because we also know that when it comes to this Cabinet, this Cabinet has more people accused of sexual assault than any incoming Cabinet probably ever in the history of America,” she added.

“So we are living in unprecedented times and we know that this was completely political, as someone who serves on the [House] oversight committee, this was gamesmanship the entire time.”

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Nervous Conservatives Beg Biden To Give Trump A Pardon Before He Leaves Office

Now that President Joe Biden has less than two months remaining in office, some conservatives are actively campaigning for him to hand Donald Trump a presidential pardon on his way out the door.

Of course, it seems odd that anyone who supports Trump would think he needs a pardon. After all, haven’t they always said that he didn’t do anything wrong?

In an op-ed they penned for the Washington Post, Marc Thiessen and Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute suggest that Biden could help heal the nation with a pardon.

“From a legal standpoint, Trump does not need a presidential pardon. Special counsel Jack Smith is in the process of shutting down his federal investigations. If Smith does not close his cases, Trump can simply fire him the second he takes office. At the state level, Biden has no pardon power, but the cases against Trump appear to be falling apart,” they write.

Then why should Biden issue a pardon that isn’t even needed? According to Thiessen and Pletka, it would unify the country and help us all heal.

“Absent decisive action, we could find ourselves at the start of a vicious cycle, in which Republicans now argue they are justified in weaponizing the justice system to go after Democrats, and Democrats then feel free to retaliate when they regain power — sending the country spiraling into a miasma of partisan litigation.”

Even though Biden said in 2020 that he would never pardon Trump, the two conservatives say he should reconsider, quoting his victory speech when he defeated Trump: “To everything there is a season — a time to build, a time to reap, a time to sow. And a time to heal. This is the time to heal in America.”

If Biden was sincere when he spoke those words, they conclude, “history can still record that, in the waning days of his presidency, Joe Biden finally delivered on that promise.”

Sorry, Marc and Danielle, but if anyone gets a pardon from President Biden as he walks out of the Oval Office for the last time, it should be Hunter Biden. Do you know why? To piss off all of the douchebags on the right.

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Here’s How Joe Biden Is ‘Trump-proofing’ His Accomplishments And Legacy

As Donald Trump continues to name members of his cabinet and prepares to take office in less than two months, President Joe Biden and his administration are also actively working to guarantee that the incoming Trump team can’t destroy some of their biggest accomplishments and tarnish the legacy that Biden will be remembered for when history books are written in the coming decades.

The Financial Times reports that the Biden team is working overtime to spend billions of dollars that Congress has already approved to keep Trump from clawing back the money or allocating it to other projects.

One of those is the $39 billion allocated as financial incentives for semiconductor manufacturing plants throughout the U.S., which is part of the CHIPS and Science Act. That funding is expected to create over 115,000 manufacturing jobs in several states.

According to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, her agency is working overtime and weekends to spend CHIPS and Science Act funds as soon as possible since Republicans have hinted they may try to cancel the funding as soon as Trump takes the oath of office on January 20, 2025.

“The CHIPS team has announced preliminary agreements with two dozen companies for CHIPS awards, and over the next two months, plans to announce preliminary agreements for all $39 billion of that funding, and is well on its way towards securing final agreements for many of those entities [where] preliminary awards were announced,” a White House official revealed.

There’s also the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which Earthjustice has hailed as “the largest climate spending bill ever.” It contains $369 billion in clean energy subsidies that Trump has vowed to repeal, even though that may not be as easy as he thinks. Many Republican states are using those funds to start or upgrade clean energy programs and will be reluctant to let go of them.

And then there’s Ukraine.

Biden is trying to get some $7 billion in additional military assistance to Kiev as soon as possible, especially since Trump is known to be buddies with Russian President Vladimir Putin and will likely try to deny Ukraine any further U.S. aid once he takes office.

But perhaps Biden’s most lasting legacy will be on the federal courts, where the White House is urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to push through as many Biden nominees as he possibly can before Trump is sworn in.

A White Hosue official told the Financial Times, “We’ve been working with [Senate Democrats] very, very closely to get as many of the president’s nominees confirmed because he believes that he wants to leave a lasting impact on the judiciary.”

Granted, another four years of Trump as president will likely be chaotic and disastrous, but as he leaves office, President Biden hopes to minimize the damage his successor can do.