Dr. Jordan B. Peterson takes an in-depth look at the presidential pardon for Hunter Biden issued by his father. He presents the psychology and pathology associated with narcissism, addiction, infantilization, enablement, and an unyielding ability to lie, all of which have mixed perfectly to forever tarnish the Biden legacy and upend the current iteration of the Democratic Party. The only question left unanswered: Will they learn? This episode was filmed on December 5th, 2024 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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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.
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