Ben Weingarten writes for the Federalist about one potential impact of the president’s pardon of his wayward son.
President Joe Biden’s issuance of an unprecedented blanket pardon immunizing Hunter Biden for a decade-worth of crimes known and unknown is a hypocritical, norm-eviscerating disgrace. But this historic black mark ought not to divert our focus from the fact the pardon is critical to a continued cover-up transcending the First Family’s national security-imperiling corruption.
The gambit aims to do more than just put to bed any further probing of the Biden family’s international influence-peddling scheme that Hunter evidently bag-manned. It also aims to conceal the Deep State’s efforts to shield that scheme from scrutiny. Lastly, it aims to de-link President Biden from his central role in both such efforts — as the asset the Bidens monetized and the executive to whom the national security and law enforcement apparatus ultimately answered.
Rather than burying this story, with justice skirted, the pardon should revive it. For the scandals loom over present public policy matters, from the Russo-Ukrainian War to Deep State politicization. The war has a nexus in part to Obama administration policies then-Vice President Biden led while Hunter represented corruption-plagued Ukrainian energy company Burisma. Meanwhile, the Deep State initiated an impeachment against Trump for pursuing information about the Bidens’ Ukraine dealings, involving alleged misconduct the pardon covers.
The lies and omissions in the president’s statement announcing the pardon make clear the cover-up at play. To read the statement, one would think Hunter was targeted as part of a political witch hunt to “break” Joe. His own Department of Justice (DOJ), the president tells us, pursued Hunter “selectively, and unfairly,” prosecuting him for relatively innocuous offenses even after, in the case of his tax evasion, paying the government back. It did so, in Joe’s telling, only after the president’s “political opponents in Congress instigated” the cases.
