A (Psychological) Reaction to the Biden Pardon
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What psychological significance does Dr. Peterson find in Biden's pardon?
So I thought I'd take a crack at assessing the psychological significance of Joe Biden's pardon of his son, Hunter. He said, I abide by the jury decision, and I will do that, and I will not pardon him. And have you ruled out a pardon for your son? Yes. Is there any possibility that the president would end up pardoning his son?
Our answer stands, which is no. No. It is a no, and I don't have anything else to add. Will he pardon his son? No.
Part of the reason I'm doing this, you see, is because there's been a variety of claims justifying the pardon emerge in the aftermath of its manifestation, including the claims that Joe only did what any loving father would do. And the I think less egregious claim that, well, other presidents have done things that were equally bad or worse. It's the former one that particularly, I find particularly appalling and telling. And so I think I can explain why. So we're gonna walk through the pardon and then I'll make comments where I think that would be helpful and appropriate. Today I signed a pardon, for my son, Hunter. Okay, well, there's obviously a problem there because that's a conflict of interest that could hardly be clearer.
And so the moral improprieties and therefore the psychological improprieties make themselves known in the opening of the written statement itself. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making. That's... half-truth at best. It is the case that President Biden did say he wouldn't interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, but he said much more than that. He said he would not pardon his son. And he said that repeatedly, and so did his press secretary. And so, although it may be technically true that he's not interfering with the Justice Department's decision-making, it's completely inappropriate of him to extract out moral stance from the fact that he's keeping his word in the most minor way and breaking it in the most major way because he is pardoning his son and he said repeatedly that he wouldn't do that.
The pardon is bad enough and we'll get to that but the pardon in the face of the repeated denials that that pardon would be forthcoming in combination with the fact that the Biden administration, including the press secretary and the Democrats in general, made a case for the outstanding moral quality of Joe Biden, who insisted even under substantive familial distress that he wouldn't give in to these emotionally challenging, admittedly emotionally challenging family circumstances and use his privilege as the nation's top executive. That's just, all of that's just too much to take. The pardon's bad enough, but the pardon in the aftermath of the lies about the fact that the pardon would not be forthcoming and the moral grandstanding that was accrued to the Democrats and to Biden in consequence of that grandstanding, that just makes this, as far as I'm concerned, unforgivable.
And we haven't even got to the psychological element yet. And I kept my word, yeah, no you didn't, even as I have watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted. Okay, now this gets a little closer to the psychological issue at hand. You see, the Biden narrative has been that, the Biden narrative is poor hunter, poor, unfairly treated, misunderstood, desperately trying, failing heroically, Hunter. Now, I took a good look at the laptop and I read Miranda Devine's work on Hunter and Joe, and here's what I have to say as a psychologist. Joe and Jill have enabled their son's pathology. And they've capitalized on that enabling politically by presenting their son as a heroic victim, which is something the Democrats are very apt to do to everyone, including the criminal types who are akin in many ways to Hunter.
And so they're replicating in their family what the Democrats do politically, and the consequences for their family are akin to the social consequence of the Democrats' insistence that criminals are victims. Now, some criminals sometimes are victims in a way that might
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