Joe Biden’s pardoning his son Hunter Biden for tax and gun charges –after months of saying he would do no such thing—was too much even for hyper-partisan CNN anchor Jake Tapper, who spent over five minutes on his Monday show blistering the move.
The Unfair and Unbalanced anchor had the tone of someone who was above it all:
"President Biden lying about this, of course, makes others in his administration and allies either credulous or complicit, including White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who‘s been saying this for months to the American people," he said, before showing Jean-Pierre denying plans to pardon Hunter multiple times.
"There was, of course, a political benefit to President Biden and his allies telling this lie," Tapper said. "In June, when Hunter Biden was found guilty on three felony gun charges, his father, the president, was still running for re-election against former President Donald Trump and Democrats and progressives saw this as an opportunity to contrast the current and former president."
Watch:
Democrats openly criticize Biden's reversal to pardon son
— The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) December 2, 2024
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Of course, Jake is a little late to the party, considering he and his network are considered by most thinking people as little more than an arm of the Democrat National Committee. But now he’s acting holier-than-thou as if he and his outlet have been straight shooters all along. Not so much, Jake.
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Tapper even turned on Andrew Weissman, the “pitbull” lawyer who was one of the lead attorneys in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ill-fated 2017 investigation into Trump and “Russia/Collusion.” Weissman is usually lavishly praised by the Corrupt Media, but this time, he’s left with egg on his face:
One Biden ally Tapper highlighted was MSNBC legal analyst Andrew Weissman, who had previously praised Biden as truly "living the rule of law, he is living it in the most personal way, he is not pardoning his son, which he could do. He is not doing it because he is living what it means to have a rule of law in this country."
"Living the rule of law," Tapper said with apparent irony, "Beyond the pardon and beyond the lie about the pardon, President Biden is doing what he claimed he would not do. He is undermining his own Justice Department."
Tapper went on to note that special counsel David Weiss even called out the president, saying, "There was none and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case."
While Tapper’s analysis is mostly correct, it’s a bit rich coming from him, considering he’s been a leading figure in the Corrupt Media World as his network was complicit in hiding Biden’s mental decline over the past few years while constantly attacking Trump and cheerleading for weak candidates like Kamala Harris.
You might have gotten this one right, Jake, but you’re a long way off from regaining your credibility.
The fact Jake Tapper makes $7 million a year but can't get more than 670,000 people to watch his show is a joke.
— Tom Bevan (@TomBevanRCP) November 27, 2024
Cable hosts should get paid $1 per viewer. pic.twitter.com/zNDhjRI0C6
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