Charlamagne tha God had a simple message for Democrats after President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter this weekend: Admit you have no moral high ground.
The radio host, 46, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, endorsed Kamala Harris for president over Donald Trump. But that did not stop him from criticizing his preferred party.
“I just want Democrats to stop acting like they’re on this moral high ground politically, when they’ve shown us that they’re not,” The Breakfast Club host said.
‘You know, whether it was skipping the primary process when Biden gave up on things like Biden pardoning his son. Stop acting as if you are the pure party and the Republicans are not,” he added.
Biden’s rationale for the pardon, which will protect Hunter from Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024, was to protect his son from what he said was selective and unfair prosecution.
“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the decision-making of the Department of Justice, and I kept my word even as I watched my son be selectively and unfairly prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement.
“No reasonable person looking at the facts of Hunter’s cases can come to any conclusion other than that Hunter was singled out just because he is my son, and that is wrong,” he continued.
Charlamagne disagreed at all, saying, “Hunter was singled out because he broke the law.” That’s number one. They singled him out because he had charges of illegal weapons possession and tax evasion, not because he was the president’s son.’
Charlamagne tha God, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, is frustrated with Democrats who claim they have the moral high ground even as President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter.
With Joe Biden’s pardon, Hunter will avoid prison for his numerous convictions for gun possession and tax evasion
“And it also shows me that elected officials can do whatever they want as long as they have the political will and courage to do it,” he added.
Hunter was convicted in June of lying on a federal government form to purchase a gun and also of possessing the firearm while abusing drugs. In September, he pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of tax evasion.
He faced 25 years in prison on weapons charges and 17 years on tax charges, although he likely would have served much less under federal sentencing guidelines.
It is now guaranteed that Hunter will not spend a day in prison for these crimes.
Critics claimed that forgiveness, worded broadly, was an attempt to cover up his actions on the board of directors of the Ukrainian gas company Burisma.
That’s because Hunter joined Burisma’s board of directors in 2014, the exact year Biden extended the pardon.
hunter was He paid millions for his role in the company despite having no experience in the gas or energy industries.
In 2023, DailyMail.com exclusively revealed that the younger Biden helped coordinate a plan with Democratic strategists to “close any case” against the owner of an allegedly corrupt Ukrainian gas company and “gain intelligence” on the country’s top prosecutor’s office.
Former Ukrainian Attorney General Viktor Shokin publicly claimed that Hunter and then-Vice President Joe Biden got him fired over his investigation into Burisma.
The emails reinforce former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin’s claims that the first son and his father, then vice president, conspired to shut down Shokin’s criminal investigation into Burisma.
Another aspect of the controversy is Biden’s complete about-face in granting a pardon to his son.
Biden said in June that he “would not forgive” his son, unlike Trump, who has openly said he wants to forgive the January 6 rioters.
The White House has also repeatedly denied that a pardon was on the horizon.
Karine Jean-Pierre, Biden’s press secretary, has been questioned by reporters aboard Air Force One since she said several weeks ago that a pardon or clemency for Hunter was out of the question.
Jean-Pierre insisted that the president was a sincere man who did not make his decision until the weekend, as he said in his statement on Sunday.
“First of all, one of the things the president always believes in is being honest with the American people,” he said. “That’s something he always truly believes in.”
President-elect Donald Trump sees Biden’s decision to pardon Hunter as a symptom of a broken justice system politicized by the liberal left, but did not directly criticize the president for the move.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis accused Biden of putting “family before country” with the pardon. He is one of the few Democrats who comes out to condemn the president.
Trump’s immediate response to Biden’s shocking move was to suggest that he might pardon the remaining people who were convicted for rioting at the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
‘Does the pardon granted by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 hostages, who have been imprisoned for years? What an abuse and miscarriage of justice! Trump wrote.
Even other prominent members of Biden’s own party criticized him, including Colorado Gov. Jared Polis.
“While as a father I certainly understand President @JoeBiden’s natural desire to help his son by pardoning him, I am disappointed that he put his family before the country,” Polis wrote.
“This is a bad precedent that could be abused by subsequent presidents and will unfortunately tarnish their reputation.”
Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., said that while he respects the president, Biden’I was wrong on this one..’
“This was not a politically motivated prosecution. Hunter committed serious crimes and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” Stanton wrote in X.