You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. Joe Biden, the president who was elected to return the country to normalcy but failed about as miserably and completely in that goal as a human being can, put a coda on his disastrous presidency by pardoning his son for everything Hunter did or thought about doing for an 11-year period. And Democrats, still reeling from losing the election three weeks ago, are just now beginning to realize the utter destruction to their movement the 46th president has wrought.
A neutral presidential historian would list as a blight on his legacy Joe Biden’s calamitous withdrawal from Afghanistan, condemning generations of Afghani women who had just begun to learn how to read and write, and vote, back to the burqa and a life of servitude under Sharia Law. Biden’s actions got 13 American servicemen and women killed needlessly, and led to tens of thousands of Afghanis who were our allies during our 20-year war being disappeared and murdered by the Taliban.
Historians might view harshly Joe Biden’s lifting of sanctions on Iran, funneling money back to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps which in turn led to the rearming and training of Hamas and Hezbollah. Iran’s resurgence, due directly to the change in policy of Joe Biden, led to the October 7th attacks in Israel that reignited the war in the Middle East. There are still four Americans being held hostage by Hamas as a consequence of that attack that Joe Biden has as of yet failed to rescue or negotiate for their release.
At least 12 million people have illegally streamed across the Southern Border, and with the change in policy of the Biden administration, many have been redistributed all across the country to put extra strain on housing, medical, educational, and law enforcement resources. Hundreds of Americans have been killed or otherwise victimized, often violently so, at the hands of the criminal element within this mass of illegal humanity.
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, which ushered in 9% inflation at its peak, compounded to a net of 21% over his four-year term, crippling real wages and spending power across all economic classes, might get the attention of historians as a failure of his presidency. Add to that policies that restrain American energy production from its fullest capacity, forcing us to rely more on foreign sources, Biden’s economic legacy alone would doom it for all time.
The politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice would normally be a stain on any administration, because it’s never been done before now, and certainly not to this extent. Prosecuting the opponent of the sitting president is something usually done in third world countries. It’s literally banana republic stuff. Biden, to his lasting shame, made it a feature in this country for the first time. The DEI/woke infection of every federal agency, the John Kerry climate changing every federal agency’s policy, each would normally cause history to look unkindly at a performance this poor. In accumulation, it makes for an unmitigated disaster of a presidency.
Anti-Semitism is on the rise all over the country, but especially on college campuses. One of the reasons it has metastasized is because of this administration’s hostility to the state of Israel. But when Biden and Harris didn’t condemn the Jew hatred on their side, but instead played footsie, courting them as possible voters, one might think that would stain an administration.
The gaffes, senior moments, infirmity, and/or mental decline of Joe Biden, episodes that increased in frequency and severity over the course of his four years, culminating in the debate performance against Donald Trump that caused the Democratic Party and regime media to kick him to the curb and off the ticket for 2024, maybe that might have some bearing as to legacy.
I could go on for another thousand words about the legacy of Joe Biden. It would be a shorter column, in fact, to list the Biden administration positives. This is why it’s just so hysterically funny to see regime media now concerned the pardon of Hunter Biden may have a lasting negative impact on the outgoing president’s legacy. Here’s a Wall Street Journal headline from this morning.
This @WSJ headline is hilarious. What is this “legacy” of which the paper speaks? Afghanistan? Ukraine? Inflation? Hidden infirmity? Or is it submarining @VP campaign? pic.twitter.com/o8vFpIJMGG
— Hugh Hewitt (@hughhewitt) December 3, 2024
Manu Raju on CNN branded the pardon a stain on Biden’s legacy.
I cut my political teeth and entered the world of political talk radio during the time of Bill Clinton’s escapades in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky. Stains on legacy mean something entirely different to me. And speaking of stains on legacies, here’s Jeffrey Toobin on CNN.
Wow. Four years of the worst administration this country has seen since James Buchanan, and Toobin gets worked up enough to erupt at Biden’s pardon crescendo.
Jonathan Turley’s new column minces no words in heaping scorn on the Biden administration’s legacy.
The pardon power was written in absolute terms, and a president can even, in my view, pardon himself. However, what is constitutional is not necessarily ethical or right. This is one of the most disgraceful pardons even in the checkered history of presidential pardons. President Biden has lied to cover up a corruption scandal that reportedly brought his family millions in raw influence peddling. His portrayal of his son as a victim stands in sharp contrast to the sense of immunity and power conveyed by Hunter in his dealings.
There were diamonds as gifts, lavish expense accounts, and a sports car, in addition to massive payments that Hunter claimed were “loans.” There are messages where Hunter belies the President’s portrayal of a political witch hunt, including messages like the one to a Chinese businessman openly threatening the displeasure of Joe Biden if money is not sent to them immediately. In the WhatsApp message, Hunter stated:
“I am sitting here with my father, and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the Chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”
Elie Honig, another veteran of DOJ, took his turn on CNN to attack the pardon and its effect on the legacy of Joe Biden.
CNN’s Elie Honig torched President Joe Biden over his pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, on Monday morning, calling it a “historic act of political nepotism” that “will tarnish Joe Biden’s legacy.” pic.twitter.com/ZM7UhCG0ec
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 2, 2024
I agree that the pardon is a bad, bad look. Just wait until the rest of the Biden family gets pardoned on Joe’s way out the door. Jill, Uncle Frank, Uncle Jim, Ashley, every one of Biden’s family that got curious sums of money from Hunter, all of them are going to get protective pardons from the Big Guy before January 20th. If the outrage at Hunter’s pardon is legacy-staining, what will it be in a little over a month after half a dozen Biden family members join the pardon club?
But given that Hunter’s pardon is bad, honestly, is it so bad that it overwhelms the entirety of suck that has been the Biden-Harris era? I don’t think so. It’s a capstone, a coda, to a presidency whose last day cannot come soon enough.
But if this is going to be the narrative, the pardon is the stain on the legacy, let’s use it as the litmus test for all Democratic Congressional and Senatorial candidates in 2026. Are they willing to disavow and condemn this Biden four-year term? Will they criticize the corruption, the gaslighting, the media cover-up of everything that went wrong? If not, will they at least say the pardon was a bad, bad thing and shouldn’t have happened? Will media continue to hold them accountable for their most recent national standard-bearer like Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports does in this clip?
Probably not, but it sure will be a lot of fun to be proven wrong.
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