It is a disgrace Hunter Biden left the White House empty-handed.
People may have sworn that his father Joe would have pulled a shock Presidential Medal of Freedom — or a pardon — out of his pocket and handed it over to his wayward son.
Otherwise, why was the controversial Hunter, the topic of a number of investigations, sitting and smiling within the entrance row of the East Room of the White House finally week’s awards ceremony?
While President Biden handed out Presidential Medals of Freedom, the very best civilian award within the land, to 17 principally worthy recipients, with names he mispronounced, Hunter was not amongst them.
And the pardon should wait till federal investigations into Hunter’s enterprise exercise are accomplished. These probes reportedly embrace attainable tax fraud, cash laundering and potential lobbying issues linked to his quite a few affect peddling enterprise offers.
He can also be being investigated for acquiring a gun allow underneath alleged false testimony. This took place when in 2018 he answered “no” on the ATF Firearms Transaction Record that requested if he ever used unlawful medication, based on Politico. Five years earlier Hunter had been kicked out of the Naval Reserve for testing optimistic for cocaine.
This is the .38 revolver that Hallie, the widow of his late brother Beau, with whom Hunter was romantically concerned, threw right into a dumpster out of worry that Hunter would apply it to himself.
But nothing deterred Hunter, accompanied by his spouse Melissa, from glad-handing friends as they filed into the East Room for the medal ceremony. It appeared as if he had been operating issues.
He simply might need been as a result of when you seek the advice of his “Laptop from Hell,” you’ll uncover how the president depends on him for recommendation. He is extra highly effective than Vice President Kamala Harris.
Think how dramatic it could have been, although, if on the finish of his displays Biden pulled an 18th medal and pinned it on Hunter.
He then may have praised Hunter for his contributions to American literature along with his memoir “Beautiful Things,” to the humanities along with his work, and to the U.S. economic system along with his outstanding worldwide enterprise accomplishments which have made the Bidens wealthy.
These riches are from Hunter’s overseas enterprise dealings that Joe Biden has repeatedly claimed he knew nothing about, regardless of mounting proof on the contrary.
Joe Biden may even have handed right down to Hunter the Presidential Medal of Freedom that President Barack Obama awarded him in 2017. He referred to as Joe Biden “a lion of American history” and “the best vice president America ever had.”
It is attention-grabbing to notice that Hunter was additionally readily available throughout the July 4 observance ceremonies on the White House, indicating how shut the bonds are between troubled son and the troubled president.
Their closeness is an apparent sign and warning to investigators that Joe Biden has Hunter Biden’s again it doesn’t matter what he has carried out in his degenerate life.
And they hug one another like two shipwrecked survivors on a sinking lifeboat.
Hunter Biden’s brazen appearances on the White House got here as mounting proof appeared that additional linked Joe Biden to Hunter and his monetary deal-making in China, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.
Most of the damning tales come from Hunter’s deserted “Laptop from Hell” and are operating within the New York Post, the London Daily Mail and on Fox News, not the leftist institution media.
But masking up for the Bidens can solely final so lengthy.
The state of affairs is harking back to President Richard Nixon and Watergate. Nixon repeatedly denied that he had any information of the Watergate break-in or its coverup. But drip, drip, drip, all of it got here out that he did, and that he lied.
Joe Biden has reportedly denied that he ever had any information about Hunter’s overseas enterprise offers. But drip, drip, drip, it’s popping out that he did and that he too lied.
He might have to provide again his medal.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”