The fiction that Joe Biden is a selfless, honorable public servant — long undermined by his own deeds — collapsed in on itself Sunday night.
As did the credibility of his longtime allies in the Fourth Estate who helped write it.
For well over a year now, the president and his surrogates have indignantly insisted that he would not pardon his son Hunter.
And because Biden is a Democrat, he enjoyed not only the benefit of the doubt from America’s journalists, but preemptive praise from them.
SE Cupp marveled that “the contrast” between Biden and Donald Trump — who protested the politically motivated zombie case brought against him by Alvin Bragg — was “profound.”
Andrew Weissmann declared that Biden was “living what it means to have rule of law in this country.”