As usual, Joe Biden uses his political power to absolve Hunter of responsibility for his crimes

President Joe Biden has spent his half-century of political power to liberate his son from the consequences of his infractions, so why would the final full month of the president’s lame duck tenure prove any different? After months of promising he would “abide by the jury’s decision” to eventually convict Hunter Biden of various tax and gun crimes, the Big Guy came through for the First Son on last time before being discarded by the Democratic Party into the ash heap of history. True to form, Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter, absolving the convicted felon not just of the tax and gun crimes in question, but for any crimes “committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”

Daddy’s pardon seals the deal that Daddy’s Justice Department could not. The DOJ’s deal, which the president specifically lauded in his statement announcing his pardon of Hunter, would have protected Hunter from any future prosecution resulting from other investigations into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent or violated international sex trafficking statutes when soliciting prostitutes abroad. Conveniently, the pardon begins just months before the younger Biden was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, discovered by his wife to be soliciting prostitutes abroad, and joined the board of Burisma Holdings.