President Joe Biden sent shockwaves on Sunday evening when he announced that he would pardon Hunter, his often-beleaguered son who was found guilty on three counts related to possession of a firearm. The younger Biden was set to be sentenced in two weeks for those crimes, and also faced sentencing after he pled guilty for federal tax evasion charges. Accordingly, his father’s pardon will account for all of these misdeeds.
The move is particularly surprising and — let’s not mince words here — fundamentally dishonest because of the fact that the president explicitly ruled out pardoning his son on a number of occasions. Democrats ran on being the party that respects the courts in order to create a contrast with Donald Trump, so it smells of rank hypocrisy.
