“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart mocked President Biden on Monday over his decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, despite saying repeatedly that he wouldn’t pardon him.
“Hypocrisy isn’t illegal. Nor is it particularly unusual in politics,” Stewart said. “The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden’s pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this great experiment.”
Stewart showed clips of several Democrats and members of the media touting the president’s respect for the rule of law after Hunter Biden was indicted and found guilty, as the president said he had no intentions of pardoning his son.
“Now, look at the dance Democrats have to do,” Stewart said. The comedian aired a clip of MSNBC host and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki applauding the president’s character in June after he said he wouldn’t pardon Hunter.
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“Because the justice system that convicted his only surviving son is the same justice system he vowed to protect,” Psaki said at the time. “If that doesn’t tell you who Joe Biden is, I don’t really know what does.”
Stewart also played several clips of Democrats defending the pardon after it happened.
Following those clips, he responded, “Yes! Yes, yes, yes to everything that you guys were saying — if you hadn’t made Hunter Biden not receiving a pardon the Mason-Dixon line of morality between Democrats and Republicans. There’s a big gap between ‘The law is the only thing that separates us from the animals’ and ‘The monkey threw s–t at me first! I had no choice!’”
Stewart continued, “This is what Biden’s decision has done. Look at how confident and eloquent our Democratic representatives were back when they thought they had the moral high ground on this issue.”
He then showed a clip of Democratic Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin saying, “I’ve not heard a single Democrat anywhere in the country cry fraud, cry fixed, cry rigged, cry kangaroo court. You don’t hear a single peep out of any Democrats saying that. Why? We believe in the rule of law.”
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Stewart argued that Democrats keep getting caught “creating a purity test for a system that they can’t seem to pass themselves,” citing other examples, such as Biden’s fist bump with Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, as well as his classified documents scandal.
“Rules, loopholes, and norms: The distance between the systems Democrats say they are revering and the one that they’re using when they need to is why people think it’s rigged,” Stewart said.
“Use the rules. Use the loopholes. F— the norms. But also use it to help people, not just those people who are related to you. All of us are somebody’s son or somebody’s daughter, and we all need that break, too,” he added.
