Geraldo Rivera Slaps Trump Supporters With A Reality Check After Biden’s Pardon | EUROtoday

Former Fox News host Geraldo Rivera pointed to the double requirements of Donald Trump backers on Sunday after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden.

“Most dads including this one would do what Joe Biden did,” Rivera, who was as soon as good pals with Trump, posted on X (previously Twitter). “Blood is thicker than water. He was willing to tarnish his honor and reputation to save his child (who he believed was being shafted).”

He added, “Too bad, but it’s not like he appointed him Ambassador to France.”

Trump introduced on Saturday his intention to appoint actual property tycoon Charles Kushner to be the U.S. ambassador to France. Kushner is the daddy of Jared Kushner, the president-elect’s son-in-law.

Trump pardoned the elder Kushner in December 2020. He spent over a 12 months in jail within the 2000s after pleading responsible on expenses of tax evasion, making unlawful marketing campaign finance contributions and witness tampering.

Trump additionally pardoned a bunch of his associates earlier than exiting the White House, together with his longtime pal Roger Stone, who was convicted of seven felony expenses together with mendacity underneath oath to a congressional committee and threatening a witness.

The president on Sunday pardoned his son regardless of having vowed to not intervene with the prosecutions in opposition to Hunter Biden.

The youthful Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 12 after he was discovered responsible in June of illegally proudly owning a gun in 2018. Experts mentioned it was uncommon to prosecute circumstances just like the one introduced in opposition to him.

He was additionally on account of be sentenced later this month after pleading responsible in September — to keep away from one other public trial — to not paying his taxes on time.

Joe Biden in his announcement asserted that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” arguing that “no reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son.”

The choice attracted backlash from Republicans and a few Democrats.

Some of Trump’s Republican allies in Congress forged Biden as “corrupt,” hypocritical and searching for to dodge accountability.

Trump’s spokesperson, Steven Cheung, claimed in an announcement, “The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system.”