Is anybody shocked? Is anybody even moderately surprised? We all knew that this was going to happen. There was no mystery. Everyone knew that Joe Biden was going to pardon his son Hunter after the 2024 election whether he was running or not, and whether the Democrat won or not. We all knew this was going to happen. Even when he was steadfast that he would not pardon his son, we all know that he would. The pundits on the left are now lecturing those of us who object to this turn of events, about compassion, forgiveness and a father’s love for his son. We are being told that Joe Biden is acting like any loving father would.
That is true. Most fathers, given the power that Joe Biden has right now for the next two months, would use that power to pardon their son. What most fathers wouldn’t do is use their son as a pawn in his international crime schemes. What father would do that? Who would use their own son as the bag man to funnel millions of dollars to himself illegally from corrupt oligarchs in Ukraine and Russia? Who would use their own son and his childlike paintings as the vehicle to funnel money to himself illegally from donors looking to purchase influence with his administration? No father who actually loves his son would do that.
If Joe Biden was actually a loving father to Hunter Biden, he would have advised Hunter after he graduated from Yale law school to join a reputable law firm so he can use his intelligence and education in a legitimate and legal way. Or he would have encouraged him to go do pro bono legal work for under privileged people so he would actually contribute something significant to society by helping others. That’s what Joe Biden would have done if he was truly a loving father to his son. But Joe Biden exploited his son as he has done to every person and every institution that he has come in contact with during his fifty-year political career.
Hunter Biden was not a lone actor who made some bad choices and got on the wrong side of the law, and his father is swooping in to save him from the legal consequences of his personal bad decisions. No. Hunter Biden was part of a corruption scheme created by Joe Biden to illegally enrich himself and his family. We all know about “10% for the big guy”, and we all know that the “big guy” was Joe Biden. So, every corrupt deal that Hunter was involved in was set up and empowered by Joe Biden to pedal his influence to foreign actors and governments for millions of dollars, and a percentage of which always went to Joe himself.
The question that is often asked is, can a President pardon himself? Well, we got the answer yesterday when we heard the announcement that President Biden would pardon Hunter. By pardoning Hunter, he has pardoned himself. Let’s make no mistake. This is not simply a pardon of Hunter Biden by Joe Biden; this is Joe Biden pardoning Joe Biden. If Hunter Biden were forced to serve the 5 or 10 years in federal prison that his felony convictions required, he would be singing like a canary right now, and implicating Joe Biden himself. Hunter Biden was not going to be the only one to take a fall for all of the corruption of Joe Biden. And that was the purpose of prosecuting Hunter Biden – not to get Hunter Biden – but to expose the total corruption behind Hunter Biden’s vast criminal activity which all leads back to the big guy himself, Joe Biden.
Joe Biden didn’t just pardon his son or even himself, he essentially pardoned every person involved in his corrupt schemes. Prosecutors can no longer squeeze Hunter Biden to get him to talk. They can’t offer leniency in sentencing to get Hunter to expose the upper-level people involved in his corruption. Hunter Biden is a free man. Everything illegal that he has done over the last 10 years has suddenly been wiped clean. And every person involved in the corruption can breathe easier knowing that Hunter Biden will not rat them out.
Now everybody is screaming about a two-tiered justice system. Is anybody surprised that we have two-tiered justice system? We all know that there’s a two-tier justice system in America because there’s a two-tier media system in America. They’re very few objective political journalists and objective media sources left in America. When 90% of the media coverage for Kamala Harris was favorable and 90% of the media coverage for Donald Trump was negative, we know we have a two-tiered media system which helps to create and perpetuate the two-tiered judicial system in America.
The media tries and convicts people in this country all the time. Make no mistake about that. When the media wants someone to fry for his crimes, more than likely, he fries. When the media wants someone else’s crimes to be covered up, they are covered up. Richard Nixon used the intelligence agencies to spy on his political opponents and covered it up, and he was threatened with impeachment and forced to resign because the media exposed his crimes. Barack Obama used the intelligence agencies to spy on his political opponents and covered it up, but nothing happened to him because the media turned a blind eye to his crimes. Same crime. Two completely different media responses. Two completely different legal outcomes. The media wanted to get Nixon; the media wanted to protect Obama.
Look at the difference between how the media reported on the BLM riots which lasted for over 6 months, killed over 30 people, injured thousands of police officers and caused billions of dollars of damage compared to the media coverage of the January 6th riot at the Capitol which killed no one and caused minimal damage, and then look at the legal consequences of the people involved. The media cheered on and defended the BLM riots because they believe America is inherently racist and therefore, the BLM rioters were justified and they only got slaps on the wrists with minimal legal consequences. Meanwhile, the media portrayed the January 6th rioters as violent insurrectionists who wanted to overthrow the government, and they all have been held to the maximum extent of the law. Two very similar crimes, two completely different outcomes.
No one would have known about Hunter Biden’s crimes if they relied solely on the media to do their job. It took Hunter Biden’s complete stupidity of abandoning his laptop, with video documentation of all of his criminal behavior on it, at a repair shop, for the truth to come out. And even then, the mainstream media and our intelligence agencies bent over backwards to protect Hunter Biden by accusing anyone who exposed the crimes on his laptop of being a conspiracy theorist or spreading Russian disinformation. They were not protecting Hunter Biden – they could not care less about Hunter – they were protecting Joe Biden and all of the corruption on the left.
Yesterday, Joe Biden did not do anything that our mainstream media, our intelligence agencies and our judicial system has not already done hundreds of times. He let criminal behavior by someone on the left off the hook. That is done all the time when the media fails to cover crimes by politicians on the left or our intelligence agencies cover up their crimes or our judicial system chooses not to prosecute their crimes. Why has there never been an SEC investigation into the stock trades placed by Nancy Pelosi’s husband? Why has no mainstream media outlet run that story or even asked a question about it. If no one knows its going on, there will not be a public outcry for justice.
What Joe Biden is doing by pardoning his son, Hunter, is one of the main reasons why Donald Trump won the election and why there is a need for the MAGA movement in this country. Everyone knows that our political system is corrupt to its core, and Donald Trump and his MAGA movement gives people hope that this corrupt system will be exposed and will be reformed, so we can live in a country that was first envisioned almost 250 years ago.
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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.
This situation presents a conflict. Despite Joe pardoning himself, if he were to do that, he would still be susceptable to civil prosecution. But prosecution of former President Trump was evil when new ground was broken to try Trump, and that's a genie best shoved forever back into the bottle. On balance, I see more harm than good by prosecuting the corrupt Biden clan after Trump takes office.