{"id":41533,"date":"2024-12-02T17:10:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41533"},"modified":"2024-12-02T17:10:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T23:10:21","slug":"belly-up-to-the-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/02\/belly-up-to-the-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Belly Up To The Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden decided to take advantage of his position over the weekend, and it&#8217;s got an uproar going:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>GOP lawmakers began publicly fuming shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden.<\/p>\n<p>President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s communications director, Steven Cheung, reacted to the announcement without naming the president or his son.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The failed witch hunts against President Trump have proven that the Democrat-controlled DOJ and other radical prosecutors are guilty of weaponizing the justice system,&#8221; Cheung said in a statement.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/white-house\/congressional-reaction-president-joe-biden-pardons-hunter-rcna182375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NBC News<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Really, the only reason that last paragraph made it in is so I can say <em>Poor guy, Cheung has to continually push lies as part of his job. Can he not find a dignified post?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>But, in general, there is a valid point in the Republicans&#8217; groaning and moaning, as President Biden did say he wasn&#8217;t going to pardon his son.<\/p>\n<p>Notably, this was before Trump won the election and began to nominate history&#8217;s worst American Cabinet, all because his fragile ego can&#8217;t take the battering from actually competent folks. I suspect the President didn&#8217;t feel it safe for his son to be in jail during Trump&#8217;s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>But, more in line with Mr Trump&#8217;s history, I suggest President Biden release a statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The former President set a very high bar for being corrupt in his last term, and, as I come to the end of my term, I wish only to match it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which will remind everyone where the pus-filled corruption is located on the Republican side of things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden decided to take advantage of his position over the weekend, and it&#8217;s got an uproar going: GOP lawmakers began publicly fuming shortly after President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter Biden. President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s communications director, Steven Cheung, reacted to the announcement without naming \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/02\/belly-up-to-the-bar\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41534,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41533\/revisions\/41534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}