If you wanted to measure the extent of the Biden family’s corruption, there are a lot of ways you could do it. You could take a look at the lavish properties Joe Biden has owned over the years, which seem a little out of place for a career “public servant” whose wife is a teacher.

You could go back and watch those interviews in which Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family business partner, explained that, indeed, Joe Biden is “the big guy” for whom 10% of Hunter Biden’s overseas business profits would be directed, according to emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.

You could recall the mad scramble by the intelligence agencies to pretend everything on that laptop was “Russian disinformation” — a lie that Biden himself repeated multiple times.

You could pull up that video of Biden bragging about how he threatened to withhold more than a billion dollars of financial assistance to Ukraine’s government unless they fired their top prosecutor — who happened to be investigating Burisma, the oil company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year for a no-show job. As Biden put it: “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b****, he got fired.”

In the face of this overwhelming evidence, the Biden administration and its defenders attempted to maintain the lie that Joe Biden wasn’t complicit in anything his son was doing. They kept repeating that defense — even after photos emerged showing Joe Biden golfing with Hunter’s business associates, and even after we learned Joe Biden was on speakerphone as Hunter was conducting meetings with those associates.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

Again and again, we were told to ignore what we could all see was happening. We were told to believe there was somehow a firewall between Biden and his son — and that, while Hunter may have been a degenerate, he wasn’t peddling influence.

This political fiction had to be maintained so that Democrats could claim, with some degree of fake plausibility, that their prosecutions of Donald Trump were legitimate. They could go on MSNBC and claim that they’re the party that cares about the “rule of law.”

Here’s one of Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, making that argument on MSNBC:

This fiction completely collapsed last night, with the president’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden. This is a pardon that’s so expansive, and so flagrantly self-serving, that it has no precedent in American history. It’s not just the fact that no president has ever pardoned his son before. This pardon excuses Hunter from prosecution for ANY federal crime that he may have committed or assisted with, in the time period from January 1, 2014 through yesterday, December 1, 2024. 

Yes, that’s immunity for more than a decades’ worth of potential federal crimes — whether they’ve been charged or not. For comparison, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he pardoned him for any crimes committed from 1969 to 1974, or a period of five years. That was, previously, the record-holder for the longest pardon by a president conferring blanket immunity.

With this pardon, Joe Biden has prevented the incoming Trump administration from bringing any charges relating to Hunter Biden’s tenure at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company. Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014, which is the first year covered by this pardon. Just two years later, at Joe Biden’s urging, Ukraine fired the prosecutor who was looking into Burisma.

According to Biden family business associate Devon Archer, that prosecutor — whose name is Viktor Shokin — was a “threat” to Burisma. As Archer put it, “He ended up seizing assets of [Burisma’s owner] — a house, some cars, a couple properties. And [the owner] actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets.” And thanks to Joe Biden applying some pressure, that prosecutor was terminated.

Those are facts that might naturally make you wonder whether Burisma was paying the Bidens in order to secure that result. That was certainly the thought that crossed Trump’s mind — and they impeached him [Trump] for it. He suggested, on a phone call, that maybe it’s not a good idea to send our money to a country that could be bribing the Bidens. And that was such a radioactive idea that they tried to have him removed from office.

That was a pretty big hint that Trump was onto something. And those hints kept coming — especially after a longtime FBI informant named Alexander Smirnov claimed that Burisma had bribed the Bidens, to the tune of $10 million, in order to take out the prosecutor. The DOJ has accused that informant of lying as part of yet another Russian disinformation operation, which is extremely unusual because it’s the kind of thing that might discourage more informants from talking to the FBI. But in this instance, probably because of the political ramifications, Biden’s DOJ thought it was important to pursue the case.

That would be an interesting series of events for Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to look into. But whatever they find, there’s no way they can prosecute Hunter at this point. That’s because, in one of his final acts as president, Biden has effectively become an accomplice to his son’s crimes — including crimes we may never know about. 

You’d expect a lot of Democrats to run cover for this pardon. And indeed, that’s exactly what’s happening. But remarkably, some Republicans are defending it as well. They’re saying things like, “Any father in the same position would do the same thing.” Or “Any father, supposedly, would ensure that his 54-year-old drug-addled son doesn’t ever have to face criminal consequences for any crime he’s committed, no matter how serious it may be.”

This is an argument that overlooks a few very important points. For one thing, Joe Biden and his administration have spent years lying to us about their intentions. They made material misrepresentations during a political campaign for the purposes of manipulating voters. So any sympathy we might have for Joe Biden is gone, simply on that basis alone. They’ve all said again and again that Hunter Biden won’t be pardoned. Watch:

No matter how much you want to defend Joe Biden for “looking out” for the crackhead he raised, you can’t justify lying like this. He knew it was false when he said it. So did his press secretary. They just knew they had to get through a campaign where they claimed to be on the side of “the rule of law,” so they lied about it. 

In fact, Biden was equally shameless last night, in announcing this pardon. He didn’t do the honorable thing and admit he was just protecting his son. Instead, along with the pardon, Biden released a statement claiming that his son’s prosecution was “unfair” and “selective.” He suggested that the prosecution was only undertaken because he’s the president — even though the prosecution was conducted by Biden’s own DOJ, and despite the fact that the pardon covers Hunter’s activities from many years ago, when Biden was vice president.

The statement reads:

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. … For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: Just tell the American people the truth. … 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.

In other words, now that the election’s over, we’re not pretending the DOJ is fair and impartial anymore. Now we’re just admitting it’s a corrupt and political enterprise with no legitimacy whatsoever.

If Biden actually believed any of this, he’d immediately pardon Donald Trump, as well as the January 6 defendants and the many pro-life activists who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for protesting at abortion clinics. He’d instruct Merrick Garland to drop the charges against the whistleblowers like Ethan Haim, who are being prosecuted for exposing the barbaric procedures being conducted at children’s hospitals in the name of “gender-affirming care.”

Of course, none of that will happen, because Biden doesn’t believe a word of this statement. He’s a complete fraud, which is one of the reasons this is so indefensible.

It’s also indefensible because he just gave his son a pass for every single one of the federal crimes he committed, or may conceivably have committed, over 11 years. Insulating your adult child from rightful consequences to that extent is, among other things, enormously bad parenting. As parents, our greatest duty is to help our children to develop virtue. Giving them a hall pass for federal crimes obviously does the opposite. You cannot become a virtuous person if you are insulated from any and all legal repercussions for any crimes you committed. A good father, a loving father, would not want to give that kind of get out of jail free card to his son. Any chance that Hunter would ever become anything but a scumbag has now been obliterated. He will live the rest of his life a scumbag and die a scumbag. Which, from the perspective of a loving parent, is a fate far worse than prison.

But it’s not hard to see why Joe Biden’s doing it. He’s clearly pardoning Hunter, at least in part, to protect himself. That’s why this pardon is so unbelievably broad, both in scope and in length. Any prosecution of Hunter would almost certainly uncover more evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden along with other Biden family members, as well.

We know that because, just based on what we have already, there’s a lot of evidence that would seem to implicate those family members. For example, Senate investigators found that Hunter Biden “opened a bank account with” a deputy at CEFC, a Chinese energy firm that’s closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party. That bank account, according to Senate investigators, funded a $100,000 “spending spree” for the Biden family, including James Biden and his wife.

These are the kind of payments that Senate officials were able to uncover with only a very limited ability to look into the Biden family. You can imagine what a full-fledged prosecution would uncover.

But the Biden DOJ made sure that there would be no full-fledged prosecution of Hunter Biden. That’s why they slow-walked the investigation of his abandoned laptop. They wanted the statute of limitations to expire on as many crimes as possible. When the FBI seized Hunter’s laptop from the repair store, they sat on it for more than a year, until the New York Post finally published its story. And even then, the FBI told Facebook in advance that the story was probably Russian disinformation.

CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

By shutting down any prosecution of Hunter, it becomes much more difficult to relaunch any of these investigations, or to prosecute any other member of the Biden family — including the president. That’s another reason this pardon is indefensible, even for a father who’s trying to keep his son out of prison.

At the same time, I’ll concede that this story would be completely different if Joe Biden had only pardoned Hunter for the gun and tax crimes. You could probably defend that. I’d pardon my kids for those kinds of “crimes,” if I had the power. But that’s not what Biden did. He pardoned him for all federal crimes, going back to a time that pre-dates those charges. That’s what makes this so outrageous and cartoonishly corrupt.

The tax charges were always just a surface-level allegation that obscured the actual underlying corruption. It doesn’t really matter whether Hunter Biden paid taxes on all of his foreign money. What matters is what, exactly, that foreign money was buying. That’s the investigation that Joe Biden thinks he’s just shut down.

But there are a few elements here that should mitigate our anger and frustration about this pardon. First of all, this is a clear win for the incoming Trump administration, politically. It’s more of a gift to Trump than Hunter. It gives Trump a political green-light to do what he should be doing anyway, which is to issue blanket pardons for all of the political prisoners of this administration.

The pardon is also already leading to a lot of interesting moments on MSNBC, where an overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned audience is being forced to confront the fact that everything Democrats said for the past four years was a lie. Here’s one example:

A realization like this — as basic and as inauthentic as it is — still represents progress. This is the first time that a lot of Democrats watching MSNBC are realizing the extent to which they’ve been lied to. And that’s obviously a major win for Republicans.

Additionally, this pardon might actually simplify future investigations into the Biden family (at least, until more pardons are announced). Now that Hunter can’t be prosecuted for any crimes, he can’t assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, to avoid responding to subpoenas or testifying. Republicans in Congress and the DOJ can — and should — use that fact to their advantage.

But the most consequential point is that, with this pardon, Democrats have once again proved their willingness to wield their power to the fullest extent possible, no matter how their opposition feels about it or what they say about it. Democrats are as ruthless as they are shameless. There’s no way to look at this pardon and come to any other conclusion.

They will spend years telling you one thing, only to do another — all without any degree of remorse or self-awareness. They’ll extol the virtues of “the rule of law” and “democracy,” only to admit, on their way out the door, that actually none of that was ever remotely important to them.

This is the lesson that Trump needs to keep at the front of his mind for the next four years, as Democrats repeatedly try to use conservatives’ values against us. That’s the strategy they’ve been using for many years, to great effect. And they’re going to keep on doing it.

But now that Democrats have admitted they have no values themselves, there’s no reason for Trump — or any elected Republican — to listen to a word they say. And if most Americans come to that realization, then Hunter Biden’s pardon will probably, on balance, be a net positive — because it means that no family as corrupt and power-hungry as the Bidens will ever control the White House again.

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If you wanted to measure the extent of the Biden family’s corruption, there are a lot of ways you could do it. You could take a look at the lavish properties Joe Biden has owned over the years, which seem a little out of place for a career “public servant” whose wife is a teacher.

You could go back and watch those interviews in which Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family business partner, explained that, indeed, Joe Biden is “the big guy” for whom 10% of Hunter Biden’s overseas business profits would be directed, according to emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop.

You could recall the mad scramble by the intelligence agencies to pretend everything on that laptop was “Russian disinformation” — a lie that Biden himself repeated multiple times.

You could pull up that video of Biden bragging about how he threatened to withhold more than a billion dollars of financial assistance to Ukraine’s government unless they fired their top prosecutor — who happened to be investigating Burisma, the oil company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year for a no-show job. As Biden put it: “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b****, he got fired.”

In the face of this overwhelming evidence, the Biden administration and its defenders attempted to maintain the lie that Joe Biden wasn’t complicit in anything his son was doing. They kept repeating that defense — even after photos emerged showing Joe Biden golfing with Hunter’s business associates, and even after we learned Joe Biden was on speakerphone as Hunter was conducting meetings with those associates.

WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show

Again and again, we were told to ignore what we could all see was happening. We were told to believe there was somehow a firewall between Biden and his son — and that, while Hunter may have been a degenerate, he wasn’t peddling influence.

This political fiction had to be maintained so that Democrats could claim, with some degree of fake plausibility, that their prosecutions of Donald Trump were legitimate. They could go on MSNBC and claim that they’re the party that cares about the “rule of law.”

Here’s one of Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, making that argument on MSNBC:

This fiction completely collapsed last night, with the president’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden. This is a pardon that’s so expansive, and so flagrantly self-serving, that it has no precedent in American history. It’s not just the fact that no president has ever pardoned his son before. This pardon excuses Hunter from prosecution for ANY federal crime that he may have committed or assisted with, in the time period from January 1, 2014 through yesterday, December 1, 2024. 

Yes, that’s immunity for more than a decades’ worth of potential federal crimes — whether they’ve been charged or not. For comparison, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he pardoned him for any crimes committed from 1969 to 1974, or a period of five years. That was, previously, the record-holder for the longest pardon by a president conferring blanket immunity.

With this pardon, Joe Biden has prevented the incoming Trump administration from bringing any charges relating to Hunter Biden’s tenure at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company. Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014, which is the first year covered by this pardon. Just two years later, at Joe Biden’s urging, Ukraine fired the prosecutor who was looking into Burisma.

According to Biden family business associate Devon Archer, that prosecutor — whose name is Viktor Shokin — was a “threat” to Burisma. As Archer put it, “He ended up seizing assets of [Burisma’s owner] — a house, some cars, a couple properties. And [the owner] actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets.” And thanks to Joe Biden applying some pressure, that prosecutor was terminated.

Those are facts that might naturally make you wonder whether Burisma was paying the Bidens in order to secure that result. That was certainly the thought that crossed Trump’s mind — and they impeached him [Trump] for it. He suggested, on a phone call, that maybe it’s not a good idea to send our money to a country that could be bribing the Bidens. And that was such a radioactive idea that they tried to have him removed from office.

That was a pretty big hint that Trump was onto something. And those hints kept coming — especially after a longtime FBI informant named Alexander Smirnov claimed that Burisma had bribed the Bidens, to the tune of $10 million, in order to take out the prosecutor. The DOJ has accused that informant of lying as part of yet another Russian disinformation operation, which is extremely unusual because it’s the kind of thing that might discourage more informants from talking to the FBI. But in this instance, probably because of the political ramifications, Biden’s DOJ thought it was important to pursue the case.

That would be an interesting series of events for Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to look into. But whatever they find, there’s no way they can prosecute Hunter at this point. That’s because, in one of his final acts as president, Biden has effectively become an accomplice to his son’s crimes — including crimes we may never know about. 

You’d expect a lot of Democrats to run cover for this pardon. And indeed, that’s exactly what’s happening. But remarkably, some Republicans are defending it as well. They’re saying things like, “Any father in the same position would do the same thing.” Or “Any father, supposedly, would ensure that his 54-year-old drug-addled son doesn’t ever have to face criminal consequences for any crime he’s committed, no matter how serious it may be.”

This is an argument that overlooks a few very important points. For one thing, Joe Biden and his administration have spent years lying to us about their intentions. They made material misrepresentations during a political campaign for the purposes of manipulating voters. So any sympathy we might have for Joe Biden is gone, simply on that basis alone. They’ve all said again and again that Hunter Biden won’t be pardoned. Watch:

No matter how much you want to defend Joe Biden for “looking out” for the crackhead he raised, you can’t justify lying like this. He knew it was false when he said it. So did his press secretary. They just knew they had to get through a campaign where they claimed to be on the side of “the rule of law,” so they lied about it. 

In fact, Biden was equally shameless last night, in announcing this pardon. He didn’t do the honorable thing and admit he was just protecting his son. Instead, along with the pardon, Biden released a statement claiming that his son’s prosecution was “unfair” and “selective.” He suggested that the prosecution was only undertaken because he’s the president — even though the prosecution was conducted by Biden’s own DOJ, and despite the fact that the pardon covers Hunter’s activities from many years ago, when Biden was vice president.

The statement reads:

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong. … For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: Just tell the American people the truth. … 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.

In other words, now that the election’s over, we’re not pretending the DOJ is fair and impartial anymore. Now we’re just admitting it’s a corrupt and political enterprise with no legitimacy whatsoever.

If Biden actually believed any of this, he’d immediately pardon Donald Trump, as well as the January 6 defendants and the many pro-life activists who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for protesting at abortion clinics. He’d instruct Merrick Garland to drop the charges against the whistleblowers like Ethan Haim, who are being prosecuted for exposing the barbaric procedures being conducted at children’s hospitals in the name of “gender-affirming care.”

Of course, none of that will happen, because Biden doesn’t believe a word of this statement. He’s a complete fraud, which is one of the reasons this is so indefensible.

It’s also indefensible because he just gave his son a pass for every single one of the federal crimes he committed, or may conceivably have committed, over 11 years. Insulating your adult child from rightful consequences to that extent is, among other things, enormously bad parenting. As parents, our greatest duty is to help our children to develop virtue. Giving them a hall pass for federal crimes obviously does the opposite. You cannot become a virtuous person if you are insulated from any and all legal repercussions for any crimes you committed. A good father, a loving father, would not want to give that kind of get out of jail free card to his son. Any chance that Hunter would ever become anything but a scumbag has now been obliterated. He will live the rest of his life a scumbag and die a scumbag. Which, from the perspective of a loving parent, is a fate far worse than prison.

But it’s not hard to see why Joe Biden’s doing it. He’s clearly pardoning Hunter, at least in part, to protect himself. That’s why this pardon is so unbelievably broad, both in scope and in length. Any prosecution of Hunter would almost certainly uncover more evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden along with other Biden family members, as well.

We know that because, just based on what we have already, there’s a lot of evidence that would seem to implicate those family members. For example, Senate investigators found that Hunter Biden “opened a bank account with” a deputy at CEFC, a Chinese energy firm that’s closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party. That bank account, according to Senate investigators, funded a $100,000 “spending spree” for the Biden family, including James Biden and his wife.

These are the kind of payments that Senate officials were able to uncover with only a very limited ability to look into the Biden family. You can imagine what a full-fledged prosecution would uncover.

But the Biden DOJ made sure that there would be no full-fledged prosecution of Hunter Biden. That’s why they slow-walked the investigation of his abandoned laptop. They wanted the statute of limitations to expire on as many crimes as possible. When the FBI seized Hunter’s laptop from the repair store, they sat on it for more than a year, until the New York Post finally published its story. And even then, the FBI told Facebook in advance that the story was probably Russian disinformation.

CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE

By shutting down any prosecution of Hunter, it becomes much more difficult to relaunch any of these investigations, or to prosecute any other member of the Biden family — including the president. That’s another reason this pardon is indefensible, even for a father who’s trying to keep his son out of prison.

At the same time, I’ll concede that this story would be completely different if Joe Biden had only pardoned Hunter for the gun and tax crimes. You could probably defend that. I’d pardon my kids for those kinds of “crimes,” if I had the power. But that’s not what Biden did. He pardoned him for all federal crimes, going back to a time that pre-dates those charges. That’s what makes this so outrageous and cartoonishly corrupt.

The tax charges were always just a surface-level allegation that obscured the actual underlying corruption. It doesn’t really matter whether Hunter Biden paid taxes on all of his foreign money. What matters is what, exactly, that foreign money was buying. That’s the investigation that Joe Biden thinks he’s just shut down.

But there are a few elements here that should mitigate our anger and frustration about this pardon. First of all, this is a clear win for the incoming Trump administration, politically. It’s more of a gift to Trump than Hunter. It gives Trump a political green-light to do what he should be doing anyway, which is to issue blanket pardons for all of the political prisoners of this administration.

The pardon is also already leading to a lot of interesting moments on MSNBC, where an overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned audience is being forced to confront the fact that everything Democrats said for the past four years was a lie. Here’s one example:

A realization like this — as basic and as inauthentic as it is — still represents progress. This is the first time that a lot of Democrats watching MSNBC are realizing the extent to which they’ve been lied to. And that’s obviously a major win for Republicans.

Additionally, this pardon might actually simplify future investigations into the Biden family (at least, until more pardons are announced). Now that Hunter can’t be prosecuted for any crimes, he can’t assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, to avoid responding to subpoenas or testifying. Republicans in Congress and the DOJ can — and should — use that fact to their advantage.

But the most consequential point is that, with this pardon, Democrats have once again proved their willingness to wield their power to the fullest extent possible, no matter how their opposition feels about it or what they say about it. Democrats are as ruthless as they are shameless. There’s no way to look at this pardon and come to any other conclusion.

They will spend years telling you one thing, only to do another — all without any degree of remorse or self-awareness. They’ll extol the virtues of “the rule of law” and “democracy,” only to admit, on their way out the door, that actually none of that was ever remotely important to them.

This is the lesson that Trump needs to keep at the front of his mind for the next four years, as Democrats repeatedly try to use conservatives’ values against us. That’s the strategy they’ve been using for many years, to great effect. And they’re going to keep on doing it.

But now that Democrats have admitted they have no values themselves, there’s no reason for Trump — or any elected Republican — to listen to a word they say. And if most Americans come to that realization, then Hunter Biden’s pardon will probably, on balance, be a net positive — because it means that no family as corrupt and power-hungry as the Bidens will ever control the White House again.

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