Today, President Biden announced that he had pardoned his son Hunter. He did the right thing. And he explained why it was the right thing.
What President Biden did not say was that the publicly stated vindictiveness of Trump - as illustrated by the Trump-run Bureau of Prisons’ decisions to place his former lawyer Michael Cohen in solitary confinement because Cohen dared to speak the truth about Trump - made it a moral imperative to keep Hunter out of the clutches of Trump’s minions.
Hunter Biden was guilty of committing certain crimes. Donald Trump was clearly guilty of committing far worse crimes, and avoided the consequences only because his puppet Supreme Court and his puppet Florida district court judge placed insuperable obstacles in the way. In none of those cases was there an adjudication that the prosecutors’ charges were without merit. Indeed, a clear majority of the U.S. Senate, including several Republicans, voted to convict him of the impeachment charges after the Jan. 6 Insurrection in 2021, charges which were at the core of Special Prosecutor Jack Smith’s DC case.
Donald Trump will never go to jail for his nefarious transgressions. It would be the ultimate surrender of Joe Biden to allow his surviving son to suffer imprisonment under the Trump regime even one day for his far lesser crimes.
While history may judge Joe Biden as a well-meaning man who was unable to adequately navigate our COVID-era national nervous breakdown, it will judge Donald Trump as the single worst cause of that nervous breakdown.
