Biden abandoned any semblance of principle with his last-minute pardons

At 11:45 am, the media yet felt the scorpion's sting. It was delivered by President Joe Biden, who shattered immoderate pretense of rule successful pardoning household members implicated successful the influence-peddling corruption scandal.

According to an aged fable, a scorpion convinced a leery frog to transportation him crossed a river, noting that helium could not sting him since they would some drown. Halfway across, the scorpion struck and the frog asked wherefore helium would doom them both. The scorpion replied "I americium sorry, but I couldn’t defy the urge. It’s successful my nature."

For those of america who person written astir the corruption of the Biden household for decades, the pardons were crushingly predictable. The President simply couldn't defy the urge.

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In a metropolis wherever corruption is simply a cottage industry, the Bidens person agelong been successful a league of their own, from nepotism to power peddling to illicit lobbying.

In the influence-peddling scandal, millions were generated from overseas sources successful virtual plain view. 

There were the luxury edifice rooms, a diamond, a sports car, and monolithic payments called "loans. In the summertime of 2019, 1 Chinese businessman wired Hunter Biden $250,000 utilizing Joe Biden’s Delaware location arsenic the beneficiary address."

The consciousness of implicit impunity came retired successful shake-down communications. For example, was the WhatsApp connection to a Chinese businessman openly threatening the displeasure of Joe Biden if wealth was not forked implicit without delay? In the message, Hunter warned:

"I americium sitting present with my father, and we would similar to recognize wherefore the committedness made has not been fulfilled. Tell the manager that I would similar to resoluteness this present earlier it gets retired of hand, and present means tonight. And, Z, if I get a telephone oregon substance from anyone progressive successful this different than you, Zhang, oregon the Chairman, I volition marque definite that betwixt the antheral sitting adjacent to maine and each idiosyncratic helium knows and my quality to everlastingly clasp a grudge that you volition regret not pursuing my direction. I americium sitting present waiting for the telephone with my father."

That consciousness of impunity was owed to mainstream media forming a protective ammunition astir the family. The media refused to prosecute the ungraded contempt the Hunter Biden laptop and wide grounds of power peddling. 

In 2020, CBS News’s Lesley Stahl virtually laughed mockingly astatine then-President Donald Trump erstwhile helium raised the Hunter Biden laptop and what it revealed astir the Bidens. (Yet Stahl inactive precocious expressed disorder and alarm that radical were abandoning bequest media for caller media.)

Reporters assured citizens that the laptop was presumptive "Russian disinformation." Even aft the media belatedly acknowledged that it was authentic, MSNBC and Washington Post analysts were still making the claim last year.

After Republicans successful the House elaborate millions successful payments, the media shifted to claiming that determination was nary existent ungraded unless it was shown that Joe Biden really received wealth directly. It was a ridiculous claim since courts person agelong treated wealth going to household members arsenic the aforesaid arsenic going straight to a main arsenic transgression conduct.

The media continued to support Biden, arsenic grounds showed that Biden had repeatedly lied astir not gathering with Hunter's clients oregon not having cognition of his overseas dealings. 

As the media communicative continued to collapse, it latched connected the committedness of Biden that helium would ne'er pardon his lad – impervious that the President was consenting to fto the transgression justness strategy tally its course.

Biden past was shown to beryllium lying astir the pardon promise. After helium was forced retired of the election, Biden signed a pardon for immoderate crimes implicit a decennary committed by his son.

The media gave muttered "harrumphs" and moved on. Many said that it was understandable for a begetter of a lad who struggled with drugs.

Now, successful the last minutes of his presidency, Biden pardoned his different implicated household members, including James Biden, Sara Jones Biden, Valerie Biden Owens, John Owens, and Francis Biden.

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James Biden was antecedently referred for transgression charges for lying nether oath to Congress arsenic portion of its probe into the corruption scandal.

The pardons were intelligibly timed to debar media scrutiny and questions. While helium described the enactment arsenic 1 of "conscience," it was an astir mocking act of corruption.

In a unusual way, it passed successful Bidenworld arsenic an honorable moment. There were nary claims of supporting an addicted lad oregon dealing with a pending case. It was done successful the last minutes due to the fact that it was earthy and obvious.  There is nary pretense oregon apology. Just bully old-fashioned corruption Biden-style.

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It was arsenic honorable a infinitesimal arsenic erstwhile Biden told a person that "no 1 f**ks with a Biden." There was thing revealing successful this astir Biden. He could motion and say, "It’s successful my nature." The sting alternatively fell connected the media, which trusted Biden not to demean it further with specified an unethical and disgraceful last act. 

The comic happening is that Biden made it crossed the river. He boarded his last formation with his household (and himself) protected by the misuse of his statesmanlike authority. However, if helium looked retired the window, helium could spot his media allies slipping stunned beneath the waters.