Biden Won’t Pardon His Son — at Least Until after Election Day

It’s all about political calculations.

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Hunter Biden looks at President Joe Biden as he speaks to greeters upon arrival at Joint Base Charleston in S.C., August 10, 2022.

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When Joe Biden says he won’t pardon his son Hunter (see our Brittany Bernstein’s report on the president’s ABC interview), I believe him . . . although my statute of limitations for this highly suspect statement lapses on November 6, 2024.

Biden’s cogent moments are ever rarer in our observation, but we can safely assume they are consumed by politics (as they have always been). Right now, that means consumed by how to stumble across the finish line first on November 5, with the race appearing to be neck-and-neck with Donald Trump at this stage — when, to borrow Yogi Berra’s inimitable observation, it gets late early out there. Biden is sufficiently desperate that, when not empowering Hamas to satisfy his left fringe, he is finally feigning concern about the border crisis he created — a sop to the majority of voters.

Andrew C. McCarthy

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Andrew C. McCarthy

Andrew C. McCarthy is a senior fellow at National Review Institute, an NR contributing editor, and author of Ball of Collusion: The Plot to Rig an Election and Destroy a Presidency.

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