Dan McLaughlin writes for the DailyMail.com about the ignominious end of a failed presidency.
Joe Biden saved his greatest disgrace for last.
On Monday, he pre-emptively pardoned his three siblings and their two spouses for any potential crimes they may have committed over the last decade.
You know, standard stuff.
In truth, it’s one final embarrassment for those who supported the man as if he were honest and decent.
It’s one final insult to the American people, who are not above the law.
And the last-second timing of the announcement – released minutes before Trump’s swearing-in and as the crowd, including the outgoing President, was already seated in the Capitol Rotunda – was an affront to democracy.
‘If you’re going to do it, have the courage to do it in the light of day and explain it to the American people,’ said CNN’s John King on Monday. ‘It’s a stain on his legacy to do it like this.’
All that is undeniable. There’s hardly anyone left willing to defend Biden.
But the public is left to ponder: Why did Joe feel the need to pardon his family? Could it have anything to do with his son’s crimes? Could it have had anything to do with Joe, himself?
The ex-president, of course, claims that he had no choice but to give several generations of Bidens blanket immunity from prosecution. …
… There’s something else going on here – and President Donald Trump put his finger on it in an interview on Wednesday.
‘You know what the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is? He didn’t give himself a pardon. And you look at it, it all had to do with him,’ Trump said.
Indeed, Biden was really pardoning himself.
Like the executive dispensation that Joe gave Hunter, the pardons of his siblings and their spouses protect them from prosecution for possible crimes stretching back a decade.
We all know why Biden reached so far back in his leniency: that’s when the family’s foreign influence-peddling business really took off.