Joe Biden, Liar-in-Chief

“I’m extremely proud of my son Hunter. He has overcome an addiction. He is one of the brightest, most decent men I know… I abide by the jury decision. I will do that, and I will not pardon him.”

Those were the words that President Joe Biden shared with the world on June 14, 2024, at the G7 conference in Puglia, Italy, ones that he repeated multiple times before, during, and after the 2024 presidential election. Well, it turns out that Joe was lying the whole time, just like when he told the American people before the 2020 election that he never once discussed Hunter’s shady foreign business deals with him... despite reams of evidence to the contrary.

Not surprisingly, the blowback from Hunter’s presidential pardon has been strong and bipartisan. Even the mainstream media, which carried President Biden’s water for the past four years, weighed in… and not in complimentary terms.

CNN chastised President Biden’s duplicity, reporting that “By pardoning his son, Joe Biden has reneged on a public promise that he made repeatedly before and after dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The president and his top White House spokesperson said unequivocally, including after Trump won the 2024 election, that he would not pardon Hunter Biden or commute his sentence.”

CNN Politics also published an article titled “Democrats left fuming over Biden’s decision to pardon his son — after he repeatedly said he wouldn’t.”

And from the Associated Press (AP), there was this…

“Biden, who time and again pledged to Americans that he would restore norms and respect for the rule of law after Trump’s first term in office, ultimately used his position to help his son, breaking his public pledge to Americans that he would do no such thing.”

PBS also let the president have it with both barrels in an article headlined “Biden broke a promise pardoning his son Hunter, raising questions about his legacy.”

Aside from the media, here is what some Democratic officeholders had to say…

“This is a bad precedent that could be abused by later Presidents and will sadly tarnish his reputation,” Colorado’s Democratic Gov. Jared Polis wrote in a post on X. He added that while he could sympathize with Hunter Biden’s struggles, “no one is above the law, not a President and not a President’s son.”

“As a father, I get it,” Rep. Greg Landsman, an Ohio Democrat, said on X. “But as someone who wants people to believe in public service again, it’s a setback.”

Another Democrat, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet, said Biden’s decision placed “personal interest ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system is fair and equal for all.”

Democratic Rep. Greg Stanton of Arizona said that while he respects the president, “I think he got this one wrong.”

“This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution,” Stanton said on X. “Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers.”

Even Rep. Joe Walsh, a sharp critic of President Trump, disagreed with Biden’s decision. “This pardon is just deflating for those of us who’ve been out there for a few years yelling about what a threat Trump is,” Walsh said on MSNBC. “‘Nobody’s above the law,’ we’ve been screaming. Well, Joe Biden just made clear his son Hunter is above the law.”

Biden’s decision to save Hunter’s hide was also heavily criticized – and even ridiculed – overseas. Sky News host Sharri Markson, broadcasting from Australia, told viewers that “Political lies and spin and of course in his final days in the White House, Joe Biden today once again went against his word and pardoned his son.”

“Well, that is some rewriting of history as you know,” Ms. Markson added.

Meanwhile, the BBC chimed in by reporting that “in an interview with ABC in June, when asked whether he had ‘ruled out a pardon’ for his son, Biden replied: ‘Yes.’”

Also from the BBC… “As recently as 7 November - just two days after Donald Trump clinched his return to the White House - Biden administration officials were still insisting that the president had no intention of pardoning his son.”

“When asked in a news conference if President Biden would be tempted to help Hunter, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: ‘We’ve been asked that question multiple times, our answer stands, which is no.’”

Until apparently, that answer became “Yes”.

For the past eight years, Americans have suffered one sanctimonious lecture after another from scores of Democratic officeholders – including President Biden in an address on July 1, 2024, following the Supreme Court’s decision on presidential immunity – reminding us that no one is above the law. Now we all know that their empty words were nothing but political posturing.

If there is one thing that our Liar-in-Chief has proven beyond a shadow of a doubt, it is this: there is a double standard when it comes to justice in America. One standard is for the rich and powerful, and the other is for you and me.

Sadly for Joe Biden, that may be his most enduring and shameful legacy.