Month: December 2024

President Biden granted blanket clemency to stop his son from being prosecuted by the Trump administration for his foreign business. Experts reached for historical parallels.

‘The Five’ co-hosts discuss President-elect Donald Trump tapping Kash Patel as FBI director.

‘The Five’ co-hosts dissect President Biden’s far-reaching pardon of his son, Hunter.

President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son has left some Democrats fuming over his choice to repeatedly and unequivocally claim that he would never take that step, even though a pardon long appeared possible to Hunter Biden’s legal team.

The rekindling of fighting in Syria comes after a four-year lull in a civil war that first broke out in 2011. The uneasy stalemate among the country’s various hostile factions was broken when rebel fighters captured the city of Aleppo from President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and another rebel group took a smaller city north of there from Syrian Kurdish forces.

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Hunter’s pardon is a gift to Donald Trump, and a blow to whatever confidence Americans continue to have in our political and legal institutions.

With the pardon of his son, President Biden added his name to the roll call of presidents who dishonored their office by misusing the pardon power.