Joe Biden has pardoned son Hunter, not just for crimes he’s been proven guilty of committing, but for any crimes he may have committed, provided they fall within the 10 year window between his job at Burisma and the time of his pardon.
People on the right knew this would happen, despite Biden’s public denials and the repeated public denials by his Press Secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. In fact, as NBC News is reporting, Biden’s plan was to state publicly that he would not pardon Hunter while all the time knowing that he most likely would.
The left is moving quickly to frame the lame duck President’s decision: echoing Joe, they’re arguing that Hunter was targeted because of his last name, and that prosecutions on gun and tax crimes like those Hunter was charged with rarely happen (a charge Biden prosecutors are pushing back on). More, they are praising Biden for having lied to the American people, suggesting that in the end, Biden’s loyalty to family and his troubled son is proof of the President’s deep compassion — even if his decision tarnishes his legacy. That is, the fact of his lie is the very proof of his sincerity, conviction, and pristine moral compass.
This of course is ludicrous, hamfisted sophistry from people who, it turns out, don’t mind being lied to so long as the lie can spun and their power isn’t threatened because of it: in this case, protecting the Bidens protects their own interests, because if Biden is justified in pardoning his son, they are not complicit in supporting a corrupt and flagrantly dishonest crime family who used their positions of power to enrich themselves at the expense of US interests.
And make no mistake. President Biden’s pardon of Hunter — which almost certainly will be followed by a pardon for his brother — is a pardon for Joe Biden himself. Because the Bidens are rightly concerned about the next Trump Administration and its potential interest in investigating Biden family corruption.
Joe Biden will make sure his family cannot be prosecuted. But this should not stop the Trump Administration from investigating. In fact, the Biden pardon gives the GOP and MAGA the opportunity to expose deep-seeded corruption among political lifers by using the Biden family as an objective correlative: Donald Trump’s DOJ under Pam Bondi should absolutely investigate and publicize the case against the Bidens, so that the soon-to-be ex-President is tethered to a legacy of corruption and self-interested dealings that are indicative of an insular— and insulated — federal government that, with respect to the uniparty, is protected by its bureaucratic and media lackeys.
The reason the left insists Trump is vindictive is because they fear that he could be — though he hasn’t been, despite having the absolute right to push back on the false claims of his many accusers. They are hoping that Trump’s ego will convince him that by showing grace toward Biden, the charge of retaliating against political opponents will cease, and Trump will be viewed favorably as a fair and forgiving Chief Executive. Which will never, ever happen: any concessions Trump makes will be interpreted as weakness by the left, and it will incentivize them to maintain their Machiavellian tactics.
Trump’s announced appointments and nominations thus far suggest that he may, at long last, take a hard line against the Deep State corruption that has sought, unsuccessfully thus far, to destroy him politically and legally — and even, perhaps, to eliminate him from the earth entirely. Joe Biden and his family — and the people who propped him up and ran the country in his stead, as he suffered from obvious cognitive decline — should be fully exposed, turned into object lessons, and presented to voters as fully indicative of a federal goverment that has lost its way and no longer serves its citizens, unless such service also happens to enrich or expand the power of the politicians doing the serving.
One of the serial killers you seldom hear about is Larry Eyler, who eventually confessed to 21 killings in the early 80s, and who may have killed many more than those he ultimately acknowledged. Unlike, say, serial killer icons Jeffrey Dahmer, whose canibalism and retention of the refrigerated heads of victims made him into a kind of 20th-century boogeyman, or Ted Bundy, whose supposed charm and charisma was touted as the prototype of the sexual sadist psychopath, Eyler’s story is still relatively unknow even to many true crime aficionados.
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