MSNBC contributor left speechless by Hunter Biden pardon: I have to process it

A left-leaning MSNBC analyst was left speechless by President Joe Biden’s surprise decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, who was convicted of federal gun and tax evasion charges earlier this year.“Molly – fast and furious, what do you make of this new news?” MSNBC guest anchor Melissa Murray asked on Sunday night as news broke of the president’s decision.“I…I just heard it,” MSNBC contributor Molly Jong-Fast, also a special correspondent at Vanity Fair, said with a nervous laugh.“I have to process it.

I don’t have a take.I’m sorry.”Murray was forced to pivot and try to elicit some commentary from another analyst: “Anyone?”Michelle Goldberg, a left-leaning opinion columnist at The New York Times, jumped in to defend the president.“Hunter Biden was prosecuted for a crime that kind of a normal person who had committed the same crime would almost certainly not be prosecuted for, and Joe Biden bent over backwards not to intervene in order to show, you know, how much of a respecter of norms he was, unlike Donald Trump,” Goldberg said.“I certainly understand why, you know, why he would not want to forfeit the future and life of his son to upload a set of norms that are about to go up in smoke,” she added.Biden signed a pardon for his son Hunter on Sunday night, three days after Thanksgiving, in a stark reversal after repeatedly claiming he would not use his executive powers to excuse his son.

Biden said his about-face was due to Hunter’s unfair treatment.“From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said in a statement on Sunday.“No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.”The president said there has been “an effort to break Hunter,�...