After Joe Biden, his press secretary, and most of the establishment media assured us that Joe Biden would not pardon his son, he has done just that.  The media used this as a talking point against Trump before the election, repeating that Biden is upholding the rule of law and will abide by the jury decision, unlike what Trump does.

I didn’t realize that this was an issue where the talking points went out and the media endlessly repeated them.  It was like the memo that went out to use the word “weird” to refer to J.D. Vance.

There are other more significant pronouncements such as the “safe and effective” vaccines and the “unprovoked” aggression of Putin.  The memo went out on these too, and the media repeated them constantly.

I’m not sure if J.D. Vance is weird because that is very subjective.  I do find Tim Walz, the running mate for Kamala Harris, to be weirder than Vance though.  With all of the pronouncements, it’s like they protest too much.  The vaccines were anything but safe and effective.  The invasion from Putin was anything but unprovoked.

So, when they assured us that Joe Biden wouldn’t pardon his son because Joe Biden believes in the rule of law, we should have assumed the opposite.

To be clear, the president does have the legal power to pardon according to the Constitution, but it doesn’t make all pardons right.  And the media used these lines about upholding the rule of law and jury decisions as a talking point against Trump.

Now that Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter Biden, the media will say a few things about it, but they won’t really revisit their own comments.  While conservatives are somewhat outraged, I don’t think most of them understand the depths of this.

What the Pardon Says

Joe Biden granted a full and unconditional pardon to Hunter Biden.  As a libertarian, I don’t care that he violated a gun regulation, missed some tax payments, or did drugs.  I only care in the sense that it shows the hypocrisy of his father who would gladly throw others in jail for these same offenses.

But this also doesn’t mean that Hunter Biden isn’t a criminal.  And the bigger criminal here is Joe Biden.

The pardon reads in part as follows:

“A Full and Unconditional Pardon – For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted…”

So, the pardon is for any crimes he may have committed that are “including but not limited to” those he was charged with.  If Hunter Biden committed murder, then he couldn’t be charged at the federal level.  (I know that this should only be a crime at the state level, but this isn’t reality today.)

The other interesting thing about the pardon is the date.  It goes all the way back to January 1, 2014.  This is when Joe Biden was vice president.  It is also just before the U.S.-backed coup that took place in Ukraine.

The Consequences or Lack Of

There are no consequences for the criminal Biden family.  But let’s be clear that this isn’t just about corruption.  For them it was about corruption.  A Ukrainian company hired Hunter Biden as some kind of “consultant”, which was really to just get favor with the U.S. government.  Meanwhile, Hunter Biden paid 10% to “the big guy”, who was Joe Biden.

Ukraine is a giant slush fund for the Biden family.  It is like a large version of the Clinton Foundation.  Taxpayer money flows to Ukraine, while a small percentage (but significant amounts) flow back to the Biden family.

Again, this isn’t just about the corruption and skimming money, even though that is bad enough.  This is a war-ravaged country.

The U.S. helped overthrow the democratically-elected president in Ukraine in 2014 while Biden was VP.  This led to the slaughter of thousands of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine.

In 2021, Putin wanted assurance of Russia’s safety and requested assurances from the Biden administration.  Biden and his handlers basically gave Putin the middle finger.

There are a lot of things and people to blame for the war in Ukraine, but there is no question that Biden and company played a major role in provoking this whole thing.  There are probably hundreds of thousands of people dead, but at least Joe Biden and Hunter Biden got their checks.

This isn’t about petty crimes committed by Hunter Biden.  This is about the lives of millions of people that were cast aside by a criminal family.

When Trump tried to get dirt on Joe Biden when he was president in his first term, he was on to something.  He talked to the corrupt Zelensky about it, and the Democrats in Congress impeached Trump for his phone call.  Yet, it was actually Trump trying to expose the crimes of the Biden family.  Regardless of Trump’s motives, he was on the right track.

We will see if Joe Biden decides to issue a pardon for himself.  He is the bigger criminal than Hunter Biden who should be locked away for the rest of his life.  His criminality runs deep, but much of it is out in the open now if you just look close enough.