Comedian Jon Stewart slammed President Joe Biden for the pardoning of his son and criticized Democrats for defending the decision on Monday night.
Biden pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, on Sunday night to spare him from a possible prison sentence for felony gun and tax convictions. The move comes after the president repeatedly said he would not consider a pardon for him.
Stewart said he would not have as much of a problem with the pardon if Biden and the Democrats had not used Biden’s pledge to not issue a pardon to his son to argue why Democrats are the party of law and order.
“Ladies and gentlemen, hypocrisy isn’t illegal, nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It’s not like he’s ever going to run again, so why not take care of your kid, even if you said you weren’t going to,” he said on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show.”
“I respect it. I don’t have a problem with it. The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden’s pledge to not pardon Hunter, the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment,” he added.
He then aired a montage of Democrats repeating Biden’s vow to not pardon his son, which they argued showed that Democrats are defending the justice system.
He then showed clips of Democrats defending Biden’s decision, which he said would not be a problem if Democrats “hadn’t made Hunter Biden not receiving a pardon the Mason Dixon Line of morality between Democrats and Republicans.”
He went on to conclude the segment by telling Democrats to use loopholes—but not just to benefit themselves.
“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 the people, not just those people related to you. All of us are somebody’s son or somebody’s daughter, and we all need that break too,” he added.
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