Joe Biden’s Final Actions as President Highlight How His Family’s Interests Took Precedence Over Truth, Justice, and National Integrity

Picture yourself as someone who dismissed the notion of a Biden crime family as merely a Republican fantasy, a concocted narrative to tarnish the reputation of a devoted father, his living son, and relatives.

You chose to ignore the congressional hearings revealing substantial foreign funds flowing into Biden family bank accounts, believing outlets like The New York Times and CNN when they claimed there was no substantial evidence.

You also trusted Joe’s assertion that Hunter’s discarded laptop, laden with incriminating material, was a product of Russian disinformation, a claim widely echoed by much of the media. It was a shock to discover that the FBI had actually verified the laptop’s contents a year prior.

Nevertheless, you were taken aback when Hunter was convicted of gun-related charges and pleaded guilty to federal tax violations, both cases pursued by Joe’s own Department of Justice.

These developments sparked some skepticism about the family, yet you clung to a fragile belief in their innocence, attributing Hunter’s issues to his struggles with addiction and holding onto the idea of Joe as a principled public servant.

Besides, Donald Trump was a villain, and then came Monday.

That was the day everything seemed to collapse.

Preemptive pardons

It was troubling enough that Trump was being inaugurated, but then you found out that Biden had gone to the unusual length of granting sweeping preemptive pardons to five family members, in addition to the pardon he issued to Hunter last year.

The recipients included his two brothers, sister, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law—those same individuals accused by GOP investigators of profiting from efforts to leverage the Biden name with foreign entities.

Even with The Times and others predictably defending Biden’s pardons as a means to shield his family from possible “retaliation” from Trump, it slowly became apparent that you had been misled.

By Tuesday, it became impossible to ignore the reality that both Biden and the media had been deceptive.

This was the same White House and press that concealed Biden’s swift cognitive decline from you.

You began questioning what else had been kept from public view.

Biden’s family pardons were his concluding act as president. Although he and Trump traveled to the inauguration together, Trump revealed that Biden never mentioned the pardons.

It’s likely Biden felt a sense of shame, fully aware that these actions cast doubt on the recipients’ integrity.

Moreover, it contradicted his previous promise to never engage in such pardons.

However, he also once vowed he would never pardon Hunter.

Back in 2020, Biden cautioned Trump against granting preemptive family pardons before he left office, voicing concerns about the implications for the integrity of the legal system. He stated to CNN, “It gives me pause about what kind of precedent it sets and how the rest of the world views us as a nation of laws and of justice.”

While Trump ultimately refrained from such actions, Biden proceeded to do exactly that.

What a twist of fate as he exits the presidency.

Shielding his kin

Election outcomes have repercussions, and one such outcome from Trump’s win and the GOP’s ascension in Congress has led Biden to take measures to protect his family from accountability or the potential of having them face prosecution as the truth emerges.

His pardons were not motivated by fears of ill-intentioned retaliation.

Any legal action regarding the Biden family’s corrupt dealings would have been fully warranted, and he recognized this reality.

It’s no coincidence that the pardons Biden issued for his family, starting with Hunter, reach back to 2014.

That’s when Hunter began serving on the board of Burisma, a notorious Ukrainian energy firm, and substantial funds started flowing in.

Furthermore, if any charges were directed at his family, Joe could also find himself implicated due to the benefits accrued from their dealings.

The “Big Guy” wasn’t receiving a 10% cut for no reason.

How did Joe amass a multimillion-dollar fortune, including high-end real estate?

The former president’s fabrications about his family are on par with his claims that Bidenomics was effective, the border was secure, and the withdrawal from Afghanistan was successful.

Biden has consistently been a storyteller, weaving tales of confronting a character named Corn Pop and falsely claiming he topped his law school class.

Though these embellishments and the plagiarism that marred his initial presidential campaign were relatively benign, the family enterprise was neither benign nor innocent.

It was deeply corrupt, and the complete scope of what he did in exchange for the $20 million his family reportedly received remains unknown.

He certainly did something to earn that amount of money, but what?

Despite the pardons preventing any prosecutions, House Republicans should persist in investigating the Biden family.

Determining whether a former president and vice president compromised national interests to serve foreign entities is far more than a mere historical curiosity.

Americans can handle the truth.

Wanted Don prosecuted

There’s also another facet to Biden’s sweeping pardons.

As I mentioned on Monday, his move to safeguard his family, along with Republican Liz Cheney and others involved in the dubious Jan. 6 inquiry, provides justification for Trump’s pardons of around 1,500 individuals convicted during the Capitol riot.

Justice must not be a one-sided affair.

If it is to be influenced by partisanship, as evidenced by the Jan. 6 committee and its ensuing prosecutions, it loses any pretense of impartiality.

The same principle applies to pardons.

What is acceptable for one side must equally apply to the other.

To clarify, this is not about alleging that both parties have equally engaged in misconduct.

Trump’s administration did not orchestrate any politically motivated prosecutions.

He explicitly stated he did not wish for Hillary Clinton to be charged over her egregious handling of classified information via a private server, despite promising to do so during the campaign.

“I don’t want to hurt the Clintons. I really don’t,” Trump noted after defeating her. “She’s been through a lot and has suffered greatly in numerous ways.”

In stark contrast, Biden entered office with a clear agenda for retaliation.

He made it known to his team, who subsequently relayed it to Attorney General Merrick Garland, that he wanted Trump to face accountability for January 6. Garland complied, leading to a special prosecutor indicting Trump twice, including in a separate case involving classified documents.

Simultaneously, state prosecutors in Georgia and New York initiated criminal indictions against Trump, with New York courts finding him liable in two biased civil cases.

The objective became clear: eliminate Trump from the 2024 ballot or at the very least tarnish his image to dissuade voters.

That scheme ultimately backfired, as the Democratic tactics unexpectedly galvanized Trump’s voter base.

However, that does not justify closing the book on the Bidens.

They were involved in a pay-to-play scheme, and Congress along with the Department of Justice must uncover the extent of their actions in exchange for all that money.

This isn’t about vengeance.

It’s a matter of national security.