I must admit that I was surprised by at least one aspect of the Hunter Biden pardon: the fact that anyone else was surprised by it.
Few of us in the alternative media believed President Joe Biden when he promised, for years, that he would not pardon his son — even after Hunter was convicted earlier this year of lying on his gun purchase form. We never trusted Biden — a liar throughout his half-century in politics. We also expected that any father would do the same.
We also knew that President Biden would pardon Hunter Biden to cover up his own crimes, namely his involvement in an influence-peddling scheme that dates back to the Obama administration and perhaps even earlier.
Hunter took a position on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, in 2014, when his father was not only the Vice President of the United States but also President Barack Obama’s point man on Ukraine — a clear conflict of interest.
That was only one of several foreign business relationships that Hunter Biden cultivated, trading on his proximity to his father to rake in cash that, according to Hunter’s own claims, went back to his father and the family.