Biden Pardons His Son

 

Yesterday President Biden decided to give his son Hunter a full, blanket Presidential pardon, despite repeated statements in the past that he would never do so. 

I get it, it's his kid. By all accounts, a scummy individual who expolited his Dad's postiion for profit, at times with this nation's enemies, sired and abandoned a child; illegally purchased a gun,  etc. Character wise, he was as far removed from Biden's late son Beau as siblings can be. 

But it's his kid, and morally I can't fault him for pulling him out of the fire. 

Politically tho', what a blunder. 

A - He swore up and down he would never do it, so now it's just one more lie for the public to swallow,  Right now the Democrats have a lot of bad behavior that is excused by "Well, at least he/she isn't Trump." and then tossed aside. That garbage pile is starting to acculumulate some height, and its getting harder to ignore.

B - He did it with six weeks left in office, giving the press and his opponents six weeks to talk about it. Why not have snuck it in at the eleventh hour, as has been the case with many pardons? 

 C - Man, he just handed Trump the Golden Goose. 

Not that Trump *wouldn't* do whatever he felt was best, opinions and correctness be damned, but now he can go ahead and use pardons at will. Who's going to criticize it? The Democrats whose President just gave his POS son a get out of jail card? The media who bought and repeated Biden's lie?  The precedent has been set, and good luck finding a moral soap box to stand on when/if Trump pardons the January 6th participants, his family, or anyone. 

What a Christmas gift to Donald Trump. He should mail Joe a thank you note.