Last night, while writing this in Gaithersburg, about 30 miles away at the White House in Washington DC President Joe Biden also had a pen in hand and signed a full and complete pardon for all the crimes that his son Hunter Biden had committed since 2014. As part of his explanation he said that the justice department had weaponized the law and used it for political purposes, this time against his family. Sound familiar?

Were you surprised? After all, he had said repeatedly that this was something he would never ever do. I however always thought he would, in fact I thought if he didn’t President Trump would have pardoned Hunter Biden too. Pardons are important for Presidents.   Many years ago when I worked for Gerald Ford he told me that the reason he lost reelection was because he pardoned Richard Nixon, and that if he had to do it over again he’d do the same thing, ‘cause it was the right thing to do for the country. 

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