“Eleven years is a very specific and not rounded amount of time,” Stewart noted. “I didn’t know pardons could cover crimes you may have committed. I’m surprised Biden didn’t include the phrase ‘on Earth 1 or any of the Earths in the multiverse.’”

Republicans have, unsurprisingly, pounced on the move. “Obviously, Republicans are going to criticize, but Biden did make this line of attack particularly available, seeing as how he spent so long saying that he wouldn’t do it because of how much he respects the system,” said Stewart. A man wearing a suit and tie stands in front of a city backdrop and speaks

Still, “hypocrisy isn’t illegal,” he argued. “Nor is it particularly unusual in politics. It’s not like he’s ever going to run again, so why not take care of your kid, even if you said weren’t gonna. I respect it, I don’t have a problem with it.

“The problem is the rest of the Democrats made Biden’s pledge to not pardon Hunter the foundation of their defense of America, this grand experiment,” he said before several clips of Democratic lawmakers using Biden’s promise as a moral example.

“The Democrats made this case an example of why Americans should believe in our system,” Stewart continued. “And it’s hard – Democrats have the tougher road of defending our institutions and systems as being flawed but still valuable. Republicans just run on blowing this shit up. But at every turn, Democrats keep getting caught creating a purity test for a system that they can’t seem to pass themselves.”