Joe Rogan on politics: what the evidence says · JRE #2254
SUBJECT: POLITICS
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There's a lot of tax problems. He's he he definitely did some uncool things, and then there's the Burisma thing. But the crazy thing about his pardon is it starts at the time of him being involved in Burisma. So it's from 2,011 all the way to today.
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
President Biden's December 1, 2024 pardon of his son Hunter Biden was unusually broad: the official text covers not just Hunter's Delaware gun conviction and California tax case, but any federal offenses he "has committed or may have committed or taken part in" from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, per the White House statement as reported by the Associated Press. Rogan's claim that the pardon's start date lines up with Hunter's Burisma involvement is directionally accurate, but the actual start date is 2014, not 2011; Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings in April 2014, matching the pardon's start date rather than the year Rogan cited. On the separate figure invoked in this segment, Department of Justice clemency statistics show Biden granted roughly 1,666 pardons and 13,201 commutations of sentence (about 14,900 combined actions) over his term, a total driven heavily by a December 2024 mass commutation of roughly 1,500 people on home confinement; the commonly cited round number of "over 8,000" clemency actions has circulated in reporting on Biden's record but understates the DOJ's own tallied total of pardons plus commutations, so the specific figure needs care even though Biden's clemency use was historically large by any measure. Overall status: mixed, the pardon's broad retroactive date range is confirmed and roughly matches the Burisma timeline (2014, not 2011), while the exact scale of Biden's total pardons is more complicated than a single round number conveys.