We’re not clairvoyant. We just knew this was the most predictable conclusion to the Biden presidency: the unconditional pardoning of Hunter Biden. It’s a bit sad that we have talking heads who thought President Biden would never do this, given his son's June conviction on federal firearms charges and his guilty plea regarding this tax case. The influence-peddling sleaze was just below the surface, so Joe pulled the trigger and blew up his party again.
Joe Biden is going out in a torrent of destruction. He wrecked the economy, set the world aflame, and jammed up Washington with incompetent leadership. He also destroyed his party’s plans to have a lightning primary instead of a Kamala Harris coronation. He now embarrassed his media allies, who were two-faced as ever when he was ousted in July. Maybe it was Biden, though it was likely Jill—the Bidens are torching everyone as they depart public life. It looks like the First Family saw right through the "Joe Biden is a patriot for stepping down—he deserves to be on Mount Rushmore" line.
When Biden announced he wasn’t going to pardon Hunter—which, in reality, he had been mulling since June—his defenders in the media praised this like the Moon Landing. It was a pathetic exercise, with numerous commentators viewing this as the most explicit showing of what differentiates Trump and Biden. In their minds, one follows the law while the other doesn’t. The moral superiority oozed for months, and now Biden pardoned Hunter for everything between 2014 and 2024.
It's one of the most brazen acts of nepotism, even eclipsing that of the Clintons. I’m not going to argue that the pardon power should be eliminated or anything, but Democrats tried to stake a moral high-ground position and got wiped out in a mudslide. They can’t say anything now, and no, "Trump made Biden do it" isn’t going to resonate, just like how "inflation is transitory" or "there is no border crisis" was never bought by voters.
What happened is the consequences of Trump Derangement Syndrome, pure naïveté, and abject hackery. We knew Hunter couldn’t go to jail. We knew Biden would pardon him, though most of us thought that would come at 11:59 AM, January 20, 2025. No pivot is sellable in this scenario. You look mentally challenged at worst and plain dishonest at best. It’s an indirect win for Trump, who now has an even wider berth to pardon the January 6 defendants, which he should have done. Democrats can’t say anything about abuse of power—that talking point died with this pardon.
Almost every 2024 talking point manufactured by Democrats has been dispelled or ignored because none of it is true. They’re going to have to sit down and take it. But when pressed, you know there’s going to be a meltdown.
We’ll be here to watch.