Interesting discussion with Brianna Keilar and Rep. Dan Goldman yesterday about the Hunter Biden pardon and what drove it.
Notice that Goldman is not cosplaying indignation about Biden going ahead with the pardon, as some shameless Democrats did. Instead, he pointed out that the nomination of Kash Patel was a red flag.
"Kash Patel is a danger because he's unqualified and because he is out for revenge on behalf of Donald Trump," Goldman said.
"And that is not who we should have leading what should be a nonpartisan apolitical FBI that has a ten-year term for a reason so that it is not in line with the political process. So Kash Patel is a danger, separate and apart from anything having to do with HunterBiden's pardon. But it is yet another example of how Donald Trump is a danger to our rule of law and why Joe Biden felt compelled to pardon Hunter."
"The question then becomes, do you respond to the breaking of norms by either breaking other norms or by breaking your promise and which is certainly in this case, something Biden did? So what do you say to that?" Keilar asked.
(This would be a good time for Democrats to point out to media types that norms are only norms when they're observed by both sides. But we can't have everything, I guess.)
