Stephen A. Smith, never one to mince words, delivered a verbal smackdown to the Democratic Party that even his loudest critics have to admit hit the mark. During The Stephen A. Smith Show, the sports broadcaster turned political commentator unleashed a fiery critique of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden. And let’s just say Smith didn’t hold back.
Smith’s take? Biden’s sweeping pardon of Hunter—covering any federal crimes he “committed or may have committed” over an 11-year span—has effectively destroyed the Democrats’ ability to lecture anyone about moral high ground. After all, how can the party that has been screaming “Trump bad” for years turn around and pull a stunt like this? Smith bluntly pointed out that Biden’s pardon confirmed what most Americans already suspected: the president was lying when he said he wouldn’t intervene in his son’s legal woes. And now, Democrats are in no position to talk about integrity.
“You were intending to do this all along,” Smith said, “which, again, is no problem. But it doesn’t make you any less full of it.” That’s peak Stephen A.—sharp, no-nonsense, and impossible to argue with. He highlighted the glaring hypocrisy: Democrats have spent years painting Donald Trump as the poster child for corruption while posturing as the virtuous defenders of democracy. But pardoning Hunter Biden? That’s a move straight out of the swampiest corners of Washington.
Smith also drove home another inconvenient truth for the Left: their double standards are on full display. “Stop acting like y’all are the pure party, and Republicans aren’t,” he said. That’s the crux of the issue. Democrats have leaned hard into branding themselves as the party of truth and justice while constantly accusing Republicans of being corrupt or undemocratic. Yet here we are, with President Biden handing his son a get-out-of-jail-free card that not only reeks of favoritism but also undermines the very principles Democrats claim to champion.
Stephen A Smith declares no one wants to hear from the Democrat party after witnessing the hypocrisy of Joe Biden pardoning Hunter Biden:
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Dave Portnoy, never shy about speaking his mind, joined the chorus with an equally scathing rant. He nailed it when he said, “What the Democrats have done… have taken this moral high ground that ‘we’re the righteous party’… and then, time and again, they’re worse than anything Trump’s ever done.” Whether it’s rigging the primary process to prop up Biden or pardoning Hunter, the Democrats have repeatedly shown that their actions don’t match their rhetoric.
Radio host,’Charlamagne Tha God,’ also chimed in and said, “He [Hunter] was singled out because he had an illegal gun and tax evasion charges, not because he was the president’s son. And I honestly don’t care. I just want Democrats to stop acting like they are on this moral high ground politically when they have shown us they’re not.”
“You know, whether it’s skipping the primary process when Biden stepped down and things like Biden pardoning his son,” he continued. “Stop acting like y’all are the pure party and Republicans aren’t. And it also shows me elected officials can do whatever they want as long as they have the political will and courage to do it.”
Let’s be clear: Hunter Biden wasn’t unfairly targeted because of his last name, as the Democrats would have you believe. He was charged with crimes like illegal gun possession and tax evasion—offenses that would land an average American in serious legal trouble. But instead of owning up to the charges and letting the legal process play out, Biden swooped in with a pardon that reeks of privilege.
This entire fiasco has stripped away whatever moral high ground the Democrats had left. It’s one thing to criticize Trump for bending the rules; it’s another to turn around and do the exact same thing while claiming to be the party of “truth and accountability.” As Smith and Portnoy both pointed out, this isn’t just hypocrisy—it’s a complete collapse of credibility.
So, where does this leave the Democrats? Scrambling to explain how their relentless attacks on Trump can coexist with Biden’s blatant abuse of power. Meanwhile, the American people are left wondering: if this is what “restoring the soul of the nation” looks like, maybe we need to rethink the definition.
