DAN MCLAUGHLIN: Read what Trump said about Biden's shameful 'crime family' pardons... you'll never look at Joe the same way again

Joe Biden saved his greatest disgrace for last.

On Monday, helium pre-emptively pardoned his 3 siblings and their 2 spouses for immoderate imaginable crimes they whitethorn person committed implicit the past decade.

You know, modular stuff.

In truth, it's 1 last embarrassment for those who supported the antheral arsenic if helium were honorable and decent.

It's 1 last insult to the American people, who are not supra the law.

And the last-second timing of the announcement - released minutes earlier Trump's swearing-in and arsenic the crowd, including the outgoing President, was already seated successful the Capitol Rotunda - was an affront to democracy.

'If you're going to bash it, person the courageousness to bash it successful the airy of time and explicate it to the American people,' said CNN's John King connected Monday. 'It's a stain connected his bequest to bash it similar this.'

All that is undeniable. There's hardly anyone near consenting to support Biden.

But the nationalist is near to ponder: Why did Joe consciousness the request to pardon his family? Could it person thing to bash with his son's crimes? Could it person had thing to bash with Joe, himself?

The ex-president, of course, claims that helium had nary prime but to springiness respective generations of Bidens broad immunity from prosecution.

'My household has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a tendency to wounded maine — the worst benignant of partisan politics.' helium said successful a statement, echoing the connection helium utilized erstwhile helium pardoned Hunter.

Though, of course, it was Biden's ain Justice Department (very reluctantly) who prosecuted Hunter for felony weapon and taxation evasion charges – and a assemblage that convicted him.

That's the mode it's expected to work.

If Biden genuinely believed that the US justness strategy was truthful thoroughly corrupt past wherefore didn't helium bash thing oregon accidental thing astir it during his full 4 years successful office?

There's thing other going connected present – and President Donald Trump enactment his digit connected it successful an interrogation connected Wednesday.

'You cognize what the comic thing, possibly the bittersweet thing, is? He didn't springiness himself a pardon. And you look astatine it, it each had to bash with him,' Trump said.

Indeed, Biden was truly pardoning himself.

Like the enforcement dispensation that Joe gave Hunter, the pardons of his siblings and their spouses support them from prosecution for imaginable crimes stretching backmost a decade.

We each cognize wherefore Biden reached truthful acold backmost successful his leniency: that's erstwhile the family's overseas influence-peddling concern truly took off.

After a prolonged ineligible battle, the National Archives yet released pictures successful December showing then-Vice President Biden and Hunter gathering with Chinese businessmen successful Beijing successful 2013.

They are the aforesaid Chinese businessman that Hunter leaned connected to motorboat his steadfast Bohai Harvest Equity, an concern money controlled by the Bank of China.

Then successful 2014, Hunter joined the committee of the Ukrainian vigor steadfast Burisma, started doing concern with a Kazakhstani oligarch and was indirectly wired $3.5 cardinal by Russia's richest woman, Yelena Baturina.

Business was booming!

More critically, the Beijing travel wasn't the lone gathering that Joe had with Hunter's concern partners.

A House Republican probe successful 2023 recovered that Joe met much than 2 twelve times with his son's well-paying clients. And we cognize – astatine slightest immoderate of – what they were paying for.

Hunter's ex-business spouse Devon Archer testified to Congress successful 2023 that foreigners, similar Ukrainian vigor steadfast owners, believed that they were buying entree to the highest reaches of the US government.

It seems apt that Hunter Biden, astatine the precise least, was besides violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which requires Americans to registry with the Justice Department if they enactment for overseas entities.

Hunter did not register. Neither person immoderate members of the Biden family.

Yet House investigators person traced betwixt $10 cardinal and $30 million, overmuch of it from shady overseas sources, that has flowed done 20 antithetic Biden household ammunition companies implicit the past fewer decades.

Biden's siblings, on with Hunter, were cardinal recipients and conduits for those payments. Jim and Sara passed on hundreds of thousands to Joe himself, including $40,000 from a Chinese institution that Jim recorded arsenic a indebtedness repayment.

Follow the money, they say.

Biden needed a pardon himself.

How fitting that adjacent his past authoritative enactment was dishonest.