President Joe Biden sent shockwaves through the country when he announced he would go back on his word and pardon his son, Hunter Biden. Previously, the president denied he would do such a thing, claiming to respect the rule of law. However, between declaring he would not pardon his son, being replaced as a presidential candidate, and then watching his party and successor lose in a historic election to his predecessor, Biden changed his mind — or did he?
History would suggest he planned on pardoning his son all along.
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Biden first declared months ago that Hunter wouldn’t be pardoned. However, this was all performative politics. He had to save face for the presidential election in which the Democrats’ campaign strategy was to portray Donald Trump as a dishonest, corrupt politician who acted above the law. Publicly admitting he would not hold his son accountable for illegal actions would have appeared hypocritical. However, Biden was always aware of his plenary pardon authority. This was the plan, and he was always going to pardon his son, no matter what he told the public.
The irony here comes from his public statement announcing the pardon, in which Biden stressed the importance of being truthful to “the American people.” He emphasized the significance of honesty so he could purposely deceive and hide his legitimate intentions. It was Orwellian and indicative of his corrupt political nature and misguided moral compass.
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“For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth,” read Biden’s statement. “They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.”
Of course, Biden’s philosophical pivot about the justice system’s “miscarriage of justice” coincided with his party losing the election in November and the conclusion of his presidential term and political career. Furthermore, Biden’s explanation for the pardon comes slightly more than two months after Attorney General Merrick Garland defended the Justice Department and admonished any claims of political and agenda-driven decision-making. It’s quite the contradiction that few, if any, have highlighted.
“There is not one rule for friends and another for foes, one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless, one rule for the rich and another for the poor, one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, or different rules depending on one’s race or ethnicity,” Garland said. “To the contrary, we have only one rule: We follow the facts and apply the law in a way that respects the Constitution and protects civil liberties.”
Someone should ask Garland what he thinks about Biden’s grounds for Hunter Biden’s pardon.
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However, Biden has always been a snake in the grass. The basis for his actions has always been self-serving. In a government that is supposedly of the people, by the people, for the people, Biden has always been for himself. However, this is who Biden is: dishonest, deceptive, manipulative, and corrupt. If absolute power corrupts absolutely, then his hiding his intention to use a presidential pardon on his son is absolutely corrupt.
Consider his presidential journey. Before Biden was president, he deceived the people of the country and claimed he never talked to Hunter about his business dealings, only to find out that was not true. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability would go on to find that Biden lied “at least 16 times about his family’s business schemes.”
In the early days of his presidency, he denied the existence of Hunter’s controversial laptop. He blamed it on Russian propaganda and foreign agents looking to interfere with the country’s election. By the end of his term, he issued one of the most aggressive pardons in history for his son that would shield him from potential crimes that spanned over a decade.
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Biden and the truth go together like oil and vinegar, and his challenges with honesty are a staple of his life. Whether it was his ever-changing origin story of how, where, and with whom he grew up, spreading misinformation regarding the reasons for high gas prices and inflation, claiming his uncle was eaten by cannibals, or misleading about illegal immigration and border security, Biden has regularly demonstrated he is untrustworthy.
Going back on his word about not pardoning Hunter was just his latest – and perhaps final – act in a political career stained with dishonesty.