{"id":2377958,"date":"2024-12-09T12:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/icymi-chuck-todd-takes-razor-to-biden-pardon-mental-condition-emotional-wreckage-should-never-have-run-for-president\/"},"modified":"2024-12-09T12:02:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-09T17:02:29","slug":"icymi-chuck-todd-takes-razor-to-biden-pardon-mental-condition-emotional-wreckage-should-never-have-run-for-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/icymi-chuck-todd-takes-razor-to-biden-pardon-mental-condition-emotional-wreckage-should-never-have-run-for-president\/","title":{"rendered":"ICYMI: Chuck Todd Takes Razor to Biden Pardon, Mental Condition, Emotional Wreckage &#8211; &#8216;Should Never Have Run for President&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ficymi-chuck-todd-takes-razor-to-biden-pardon-mental-condition-emotional-wreckage-should-never-have-run-for-president%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2377958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent discussion, journalist Chuck Todd criticized President Joe Biden&#8217;s decision to pardon his son, Hunter Biden, framing it as the culmination of a lengthy personal and political struggle largely\u200d driven by Biden&#8217;s emotional ties rather than genuine public\u200d service. todd \u2063suggested \u200bthat \u200dBiden has failed to come to terms with \u2063the death of his other son, Beau, which has\u2064 affected his judgment regarding Hunter. He accused Biden of self-interest \u200din his parenting decisions\u200c and \u200bsuggested that his emotional baggage rendered him unfit for the presidency. <\/p>\n<p>Todd argued that Biden&#8217;s choice to run for president amidst his family&#8217;s struggles with\u200d addiction and loss \u200bwas reckless and ultimately put both the Democratic Party and\u2062 the nation in\u200c a precarious situation. He expressed concern over the implications of Biden&#8217;s pardon,which he believes undermines the judicial system and raises doubts about Biden&#8217;s commitment to\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-red-wave-of-conservative-women-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"The Red Wave of Conservative Women Elected to Congress\">public service<\/a>. Todd concluded that Biden chose to prioritize his family&#8217;s interests over what might have \u2062been best for the country, \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">considerably impacting public perception<\/a> of his character and political integrity.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden&rsquo;s pardon of his son, Hunter, was the last act in a political tragedy that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/boy-scouts-welcome-first-class-of-girl-eagle-scouts\/\" title=\"Boy Scouts Welcome First Class Of Girl Eagle Scouts\">began years ago<\/a> and was more about selfishness than service, journalist Chuck Todd says.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Joe Biden&rsquo;s got &mdash; needs therapy and I say this with respect,&rdquo; Todd said in a video of him speaking with journalist Chris Cillizza posted to <a href=\"https:\/\/chriscillizza.substack.com\/p\/why-joe-biden-needs-therapy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Substack<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He has not processed Beau&rsquo;s death. He has an issue &mdash; he cannot, he has this issue with Hunter. He second-guesses everything he&rsquo;s done with raising Hunter versus raising Beau. He, I think blames himself for Hunter&rsquo;s inability to conduct himself as an adult for a period of time,&rdquo; Todd said.<\/p>\n<p>Beau Biden, the president&rsquo;s other son, died of cancer in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There was no doubt that Joe Biden was not going to leave office without doing everything he could to protect his son. Pure and simple,&rdquo; Todd said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>With all of the baggage he had, Todd said that &ldquo;Joe Biden was emotionally incapable of being president of the United States and probably never should have run.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in his interview, he noted his impression of the Hunter Biden trial on gun charges, which focused extensively on Hunter Biden&rsquo;s drug use, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2024\/12\/03\/chuck_todd_bidens_selfish_decision_to_run_for_president_put_the_country_in_the_position_that_its_in_now.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RealClearPolitics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And you want to read, you want to get angry, just as somebody in just all these mixed emotions. You read the Hallie Biden transcript, and that&rsquo;s Beau&rsquo;s widow. And essentially, he turned her into a crack addict. And this was all happening in 2017, 2018,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/bidens-pardon-may-already-backfired-trumps-legal-team-uses-new-court-filing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bidens<\/a> were &nbsp;&ldquo;so concerned about their family that they decided to run for president.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;So when you talk about the word selfish, it&rsquo;s almost like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wake-up-with-the-washington-examiner-what-to-know-about-your-ballot-and-trumps-bold-confidence-play-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Wake up with the Washington Examiner: What to know about your ballot and Trump\u2019s bold confidence play - Washington Examiner\">word doesn&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t &mdash; I mean, their decision to run for president put the entire Democratic Party and the United States of America in the position that it&rsquo;s in now,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Todd later expanded on his thoughts about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-hunter-biden-case-shreds-joe-biden-pardon-claims-says-president-attempting-rewrite-history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inevitability<\/a> of what played out in an Op-Ed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/elections\/chuck-todd-trumpification-joe-biden-rcna182705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What&rsquo;s troubling is that Biden is acting as if there&rsquo;s no way he could have seen this coming,&rdquo; he wrote<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In hindsight, given the family&rsquo;s struggles at the time with addiction or loss or both, it&rsquo;s shocking Joe and Jill Biden went ahead with running for president in the first place. The risk of putting a spotlight on family members who were still struggling with their loss was enormous at that time,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>By issuing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/justice-hunters-pardon-may-just-cost-joe-presidential-library-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his son<\/a> a pardon, the &ldquo;president has now overturned a jury of fellow American citizens, not some kangaroo court, who convicted his son,&rdquo; Todd argued.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Biden made a huge mistake, and it really is going to make a lot of people question everything they thought they understood about him&nbsp;in public service,&rdquo; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Character is revealed in tough moments, when the chips are down. Joe Biden had a choice between what was best for himself and his personal conscience and abiding by the oath he took as president. And he may have done what was best for his family, but he did not do what was in the best interest of the nation,&rdquo; Todd said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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In a video conversation with Chris Cillizza, Todd remarked that Biden may benefit from therapy, noting that he hasn&#8217;t fully processed the death of his son Beau in 2015. Todd suggested that Biden struggles with feelings of guilt regarding Hunter&#8217;s challenges and believes he has failed as a parent. He emphasized that Biden was determined to protect Hunter before leaving office. Todd expressed concern over Biden&#8217;s emotional readiness for the presidency and criticized the decision to run for office amid family struggles with addiction and loss. He argued that by pardoning Hunter, Biden undermined a jury\u2019s verdict and prioritized family over national interest, which could lead many to reevaluate their perceptions of him in public service<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2377959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/chuck-todd.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45994,34852,34059,35533,32171],"class_list":["post-2377958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden-pardon","tag-chuck-todd","tag-election-2024","tag-emotional-health","tag-political-commentary"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/chuck-todd.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2377958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377962,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377958\/revisions\/2377962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2377959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}