Will preemptive pardons en masse be yet another feature of Biden’s sordid legacy? From Victor Davis Hanson at victorhanson.com:
Pardoner-in-Chief
Joe Biden has now established two precedents in presidential history.
First, he “pardoned” his own son Hunter.
No prior president has ever tried that shameless act, which is an affront to the entire hallowed notion of “equality under the law.”.
Second, he did so in a way that no president has rarely, if ever, pardoned anyone.
Hunter, a convicted federal felon awaiting sentencing, was gifted by his father a blanket exemption from federal prosecution over the entire past decade (2014-2024).
Biden thus exempted Hunter from a series of much-discussed past criminal activities and provided further pardons for any federal criminal exposure occurring over the last ten years—yet to turn up.
Given the Biden suppression of the justice system and the media’s complicity in hiding the Biden family’s criminality, it is quite possible that in the next few years, disinterested prosecutors might finally expose Hunter Biden’s long-suppressed, sordid career. And that could mean possible criminal exposure for three generations of Bidens.
Third, in the remaining waning 40 days of his now nonperforming presidency, Biden threatens to establish yet another presidential precedent. He contemplates issuing pardons to a variety of controversial cronies, bureaucrats, and officers—even though none of them have yet been indicted or even are under federal investigation.
Worse, Biden completed his shameless trifecta by breaking his serial pledge, voiced at least six times, and most prominently as a 2024 campaign plug, unequivocally not to pardon Hunter Biden.
That performance-art braggadocio was serially greeted—by design—with glee in the media.
On spec, the vow supposedly contrasted Biden’s “reverence for the rule of law” with a purportedly legally insubordinate Trump.
Biden would put the law above family. Trump, in contrast, was supposedly chronically questioning the morality, fairness, and legality of his own five criminal and civil indictments over the campaign cycle—some of them (i.e., Bragg, Smith, Willis) demonstrably with the full knowledge of, if not coordinated by, the Biden White House.
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To run out the clock until AOC/Fetterman 2028? (horn honks twice)
Bathhouse Barry just sparked another blunt in sweats while saying Joe signs the orders or else he gets the stairs again?
Breaking from Ernest Gold:
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