To the editor: What a bitter disappointment President Biden has grow to be. He claims his son was unfairly focused for prosecution, so he pardoned him.
That is just like the man in a Lamborghini who whines that he was unfairly focused for a dashing ticket due to his automotive. It doesn’t change the very fact he was dashing.
Final June, a jury discovered Hunter Biden responsible of federal gun crimes; in September, he pleaded responsible to federal tax expenses. In pardoning his son, President Biden seems to be simply as self-serving as all the opposite distasteful politicians we examine.
I favored to assume that we Democrats maintain ourselves to a excessive customary. I favored to assume that our concentrate on the better good is virtuous. I favored to assume we worth honesty and integrity. I can now not assume that.
Jerrold Coleman, Santa Clarita
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To the editor: If a bully had been to threaten to shoot your son, would you not attempt to shield him with a bulletproof vest? This isn’t the very best comparability, however I believe the president has Trump-proofed his son from all of the threats of revenge towards “enemies” promised by the incoming administration.
In truth, I believe that each one of these “enemies” additionally needs to be pardoned by the president.
When President Biden promised to not pardon his son, there was no actual risk lurking sooner or later; that modified after the election.
I don’t assume that the president’s pardon in any method may be thought of interference with the rule of regulation and the Division of Justice, as many Republicans are actually proclaiming; in any case, Hunter Biden stood trial and was convicted. The place was the interference?
Marie Slonski, Altadena
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To the editor: President Biden tells the world, “No cheap one that appears to be like on the information of Hunter’s instances can attain every other conclusion than Hunter was singled out solely as a result of he’s my son — and that’s mistaken.”
No, Mr. President: After Hunter Biden was sober, he filed federal returns right here in California that contained bogus deductions (together with funds to escorts).
These are the kind of deductions and in quantities for which the Inner Income Service will certainly convey felony expenses, irrespective of the offender’s final title. And the quantities of understated taxes would typically produce jail time contemplating the obligatory federal sentencing tips for tax offenses.
Kip Dellinger, Santa Monica
The author is an authorized public accountant who has written about tax follow and coverage for commerce publications.
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To the editor: “Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!”
I needed to learn that 3 times to imagine what was falling out of President-elect Donald Trump’s mouth concerning the Hunter Biden pardon.
If not an abuse and miscarriage of justice, what then was Trump’s pardon of Charles Kushner, his son-in-law’s father? And what then will it’s when Trump begins wholesale pardons of the attackers of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?
Such hypocrisy has outlined Trump for the reason that day he descended the Trump Tower escalator in 2015.
Saul Isler, Los Angeles
