Joe Biden, corrupt career politician, crawls offstage
By
Timothy P. Carney
December 6, 2024 2:00 pm
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President Joe Biden, after a career of dishonesty, self-dealing, and corruption, left office with one final grand act: a brazen abuse of power.
The only thing surprising about Biden’s pardon of his tax-dodging, influence-peddling son Hunter, who hasn’t served a day in prison, and which pardons him for crimes for which he has not yet been caught, was that it surprised some people.
In June, when Hunter Biden was convicted on gun charges, and when his tax-dodging charges were pending, President Biden repeatedly swore he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence. Biden was lying, we should assume. In all likelihood, the president always intended to pardon his son after the election, but he knew the pardon was corrupt, and so he lied about it.
Biden behaved this way because he is a dishonest politician who regularly does corrupt things.
Clear-eyed commentators suspected this was not a credible promise, but many in the legacy media treated Biden’s statements as reliable. “People who insist Biden will pardon Hunter after specifically ruling it out are telling on themselves,” reporter John Harwood stated. “They can’t imagine someone acting on principle and keeping his word.”
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