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
Chapter 1: 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.
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Chapter 2: What are the claims justifying the pardon of Hunter Biden?
Now, you see, both of those patterns of action are, you might regard as circumstantial evidence, but they're strong circumstantial evidence pointing in the same direction, which was revenge, revenge, revenge. And my reading is it's Hunter was taking his revenge, maybe with his entire style of life on the enabling idiocy of his parents, something which they have yet again engaged in.
And now so all the many Democrats have come out and said, well, any father would have done what Joe did. And that's not true. It's simply not true. At some point, if you're dealing with
not only someone who's addicted, in a manner that's tilting them very hard in at least quasi-criminal directions, so consorting with strippers and hookers and so forth, and spending way too much money in every possible mafia-like manner, as well as tangling himself up, becoming tangled up in all sorts of nefarious and quasi-nefarious business affairs. Your obligation as a parent
is to stop making excuses and put up some bloody boundaries. And yet again, Joe failed in that. And the Democrats who've come to his support, have come to his side, proclaiming his virtues as a loving parent, have enabling and love seriously confused, which is actually a pathological thing. element of the Democrat political platform.
They do exactly the same thing with so-called trans children, confusing their empathy for those children and the moral capital they can generate by proclaiming that empathy with care for those children, which if actual care was being manifested, the care would be don't let 12 and 13 year olds make decisions about their
bodies, their sexual function, their reproductive capacity, and their long-term marriage and partnership when they're too young to be legally allowed to make any important decisions whatsoever. That's not love. It's not empathy. It's not admirable. It's enabling. And it's precisely the kind of enabling that people do when they have no imagination whatsoever for evil.
And that means that they're naive cowards. And it's certainly the case that What Joe and Jill Biden manifested in the case of this pardon was the continuance of a pattern of unforgivable enabling of their quite seriously gone astray son. And they do treat him like a kid. He's not a kid. He's a 50 year old man. And what he does is not excusable.
He passed the line from victim to perpetrator long ago. Now, was he selectively and unfairly prosecuted? Yeah, I don't think so. The penalties such as they were that were levied against Hunter were not particularly egregious. And he was found guilty in the course of a perfectly credible legal investigation as the people involved in the investigation have insisted in the aftermath of the pardon.
I don't think that he was selectively and unfairly prosecuted at all. I think that Hunter and Joe maybe the whole Biden family were unfairly and selectively shielded from prosecution despite the remarkable magnitude of their continued multi-decade transgressions.
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Chapter 3: Why is Biden's pardon considered a conflict of interest?
who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. Well, what's the subtext there? Well, any person radically less heroic and admirable than Hunter certainly would have succumbed to addiction and criminality of the most second rate and low rent type because they were unrelentingly attacked and selectively prosecuted. I don't know.
Hunter was doing pretty well living the high life with millions of dollars in high-flying apartments and hotel rooms for a very long period of time. And as I said, he's not... 16 or 18 or even 25 or even 30. He's actually a relatively old man, you know, and he should be able to tolerate a little bit of unrelenting attack and selective prosecution because that's part of life and so
The idea that there has been some kind of conspiracy to break poor Hunter, who's been doing nothing but striving mightily to put his life together in the face of insuperable obstacle, is the kind of sob story that the Democrats love to, what would you say, love to worship, let's say, and that the Bidens have been making political capital of for decades.
And the thing that appalls me as a clinical psychologist is this is what they've done. They have sacrificed their son to their own moral pretensions. And now they've done it on a national scale and as publicly as possible. I think that Joe Biden and Jill hurt their son more desperately with this latest knife in the heart than they have with anything else they've done in their entire life.
And that's really saying something. If Joe loved his son, he would have shut the hell up about what happened to him on the legal front, and he would have let him take his medicine.
He would have stood by him and Encouraged him when he was attempting to do the right thing in the midst of his despair And he would have let him take his bloody medicine because that's actually what you do with someone you love you don't make pathetic excuses for them and the reason you don't is because you care for them and you care for who they should be and So this whole idea that any father would have done that nope wrong
No good father would have done what Joe did with Hunter. And certainly not this final travesty. I'm telling you, everything I know as a clinic psychologist tells me deeply, this is why I'm making this video, that Joe did something last week to make his son hate him even more than he already does. And all that's going on underneath the surface. And it breaks out in
Hunter's affair with his brother's widow, and it breaks out in Hunter's release of the laptops just before his father's presidency, and in all the misbehavior that Hunter has made manifest and documented and recorded and stored on his computer, which is not what a wise person would do if they weren't trying to cause a lot of trouble for everyone around them while they're engaging in their low-rent quasi-criminal behavior.
In trying to break Hunter, more whining, more victim claiming. And if you can't see the pattern of Democrat policy in that, you're not looking. In trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me. God, what a way to end the pardon. That's so pathetic. It's so self-serving and self-congratulatory and victim proclaiming.
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