Judging the Bidens

President Joe Biden (D) is a dirt bag. He was a dirt bag when he was the United States Senator from Delaware. He was a dirt bag when he was Vice President under Barack Obama (D). He was a dirt bag during the interim before he was elected as President and he remained a dirt bag during his entire presidency. Somewhere along that line he enlisted the services of his son Hunter who likewise is a dirt bag.

They both belong in prison. However, and it pains me even to consider this, neither should go to prison. Mr. Biden has once again promised that he will not pardon Hunter nor commute any prison sentences given in the two pending cases – one which resulted in a conviction on all counts and the other to which Hunter pleaded guilty to all counts. Of course Mr. Biden lies every time he opens his mouth and he does it as if no one was listening to the last lie. In all probability he will pardon Hunter, or at the least, commute his sentence to “time served.”

Mr. Biden, regardless of completing his term can still be impeached and while he cannot be removed from office, he can be barred from any future federal office and perhaps be denied any benefits attendant to his service as vice-president and president.

So, the question of whether President-elect Donald Trump should pardon Mr. Biden and/or his son Hunter will become actionable at the moment he is sworn into office on January 20, 2025. With regard to Hunter, it would be very easy for Mr. Trump to say that Hunter was a “bad dude” who is obviously guilty of the crimes for which he was charged and convicted and that if Hunter’s own father would not pardon him it would seem untoward for him to substitute his judgment for that of the man’s own father. However, the fact that Hunter would be in prison or remain in prison, if his father did not lie once again about pardoning him, is a distraction. Mr Trump would be much better served by providing a commutation of his sentence conditioned on parole for the remainder of this sentences and his cooperation in any further proceeding involving his participation in any investigation into matters involving other players that may have jeopardized our national security. He should not be pardoned but he should not be imprisoned because it will only serve as a distraction from the important work that Mr. Trump will be pursuing.

The question of whether to pardon Mr. Biden is more difficult for me. Every fiber of my being demands that we watch Mr. Biden do the “perp walk” on his way to prison. The allegations of his collusion with foreign governments is serious and, in any other instance, deserves a full investigation outside of his ability to manipulate the federal government as he has done to date.

But having said that, I come back to the same problem. What stands before Mr. Trump are a series of world class problems that deserve the uninterrupted attention of Mr. Trump and his new administration. Close the border, remove the impediments to economic growth and job creation without triggering a recession, rebuild the military and reassert the premier relevance of the United States without starting World War III, eliminate the use of government for future social experiments (e.g. gender modification, allowing biological men to participate in women’s sports, promotion of or funding of abortion* and promoting substitution of the view of educational personnel for parental rights), reduce federal spending to a level that at least is below the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), restructure foreign aid so as to reward our friends and punish our enemies, and most of all to remove those in the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the State Department, the Central Intelligence Agency, and other federal agencies who have chosen to put politics ahead of duty. In other words “clean the Swamp.”

In all probability, should Mr. Trump choose to ignore the Bidens*, he will confine Mr. Biden to history’s judgment. Mr. Biden’s legacy will be that of corruption and irrelevance – a fitting end to a dirt bag.

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*I say this knowing full well that the progressives in the Democrat Party – the so-called Resistance – will continue to try to use the power of state and federal governments to seek the ouster, bankruptcy and imprisonment of Mr. Trump for the remainder of his life. But those who put emotion before facts, hatred before common sense, and personal power before duty will fail. Just as they have failed to date. The attempted manipulation of the election process by lawfare and the corrupt replacement of Mr. Biden with Ms. Harris contributed in large part to the massive electoral shift in this past election. Should they continue down this path they are likely to find themselves in the “electoral wilderness” for decades to come.