[UPDATE 12/4/2024 10:55 am: Esquire revised the post [UPDATE: see here for the revised version]; I hope to blog a bit more about that later today, but for now I just wanted to flag that.] [UPDATE 12/4/2024 5:32 pm: Esquire has now deleted the post altogether, so I don't anticipate blogging about the revised version.]
Esquire posted an item Dec. 3 titled "A President Shouldn't Pardon His Son? Hello, Anybody Remember Neil Bush?" and subtitled "Nobody defines Poppy Bush's presidency by the fact that he pardoned his progeny. The moral: Shut the fck up about Hunter Biden, please." It relates some of Neil Bush's exploits, and states:
[T]his lucky American businessman['s] … father exercised his unlimited constitutional power of clemency to pardon the Lucky American Businessman for all that S&L business way back when. The president's name was George H.W. Bush. The Lucky American Businessman was his son, Neil ….
