By Peter Adrastos Athas on December 3, 2024

I hate everything about the Hunter Biden story. I've avoided writing about it because of my aversion to the whole mishigas.

Why do I hate the story? It's all about flooding the zone with shit. It's an attempt to make President Biden look as bad as the Insult Comedian. Adding insult to injury is the way the legacy media and some Democrats have taken the pardon bait and run with it.

I feel sorry for Hunter Biden. His father is a great and good man. His older brother Beau was a paragon, the perfect son who would likely be a Senator from Delaware if he had lived. Hunter Biden is a junkie who's trying to stay straight and out of jail.

Joe Biden is being accused of lying or breaking his word. Instead, he changed his mind because of changing circumstances.

I'll let the President speak for himself:

"No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision."

What the legacy media would have Joe Biden do is to throw his son to the vengeful MAGA wolves just to be consistent with an earlier statement. Fuck that shit and fuck them.

To the stern and sanctimonious critics of the pardon, all I have to say is this: Look in the mirror. What would you have done? Imagine having the power to save your son from unjust incarceration and not using it. I, for one, would find that harder to live with than the media's scorn.

No wonder I hate the Hunter Biden story.