Wait until you hear which Biden family member Joe could pardon NEXT! After the Hunter scandal, DAN MCLAUGHLIN’s grim prediction

Hunter Biden’s pardon is a shame.

It’s not just leniency for Hunter’s two criminal convictions, it’s part of a long-running cover-up of the alleged influence operation perpetrated by the entire Biden family — including Joe.

If we let this go without further investigation and exposure, the Bidens will leave the White House without taking responsibility for their alleged ill-gotten gains.

The Hunter pardon was a shock, but not a surprise. No one seriously believed Joe when he repeatedly promised not to pardon his son. No one believed the hapless White House press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, when she was sent to repeat the lie many times. After all, Bill Clinton pardoned his half-brother Roger for cocaine trafficking.

But the far-reaching scope of Hunter’s get-out-of-jail-free card is the bigger scandal.

Hunter was convicted by a jury of his peers of violating federal gun laws by lying about his drug addiction. He also pleaded guilty to avoid a politically embarrassing federal tax evasion trial that would likely have lifted the lid on some sources of illegal income.

Old Joe didn’t want his son to go to jail for these crimes. We can understand that impulse, coming from a father who buried Hunter’s brother and sister. But it is hypocritical nonetheless – not least because he could have waited until Hunter was sentenced in mid-December and then commuted those sentences to avoid jail time. He could have simply pardoned Hunter for these two specific crimes.

Instead, he went so much further and issued a “full and unconditional pardon” for all “crimes against the United States that he [Hunter] has committed or may have committed or participated in it’ from January 1, 2014 to December 1, 2024.

No one has received such a sweeping pardon since Richard Nixon was pardoned by Gerald Ford fifty years ago.

There’s a reason the Hunter pardon goes back eleven years. It was April 2014 when Hunter took a job on the board of directors of Burisma Holdings, a dodgy Ukrainian gas company, while his father was the serving US vice president. Hunter had no qualifications for the job other than being Joe’s son. The pardon conveniently also covers most of Hunter’s other shady business dealings in China and Romania.

And to be clear, this wasn’t anything like Trump’s longstanding hotels and casinos that got some additional revenue from foreign sources after his presidency in 2016. Trading on Joe’s influence was and always has been the entire family business. It also involves Joe’s brother Jim and a web of accounts that allegedly funneled millions back into the family.

With the president’s habit of blasting potential crimes still unknown to the public, would anyone be surprised if Uncle Jim were to receive the next pardon?

The lies and cover-ups have been going on for a long time.

In 2019, Biden claimed he had “never” spoken to his son about “his foreign business dealings.” He later claimed he never met Hunter’s business partners.

Both a lie. Hunter’s former business partner Devon Archer testified last year about how Biden regularly spoke on the phone with his son’s foreign contacts to show off his appeal. Biden also met with Hunter’s Russian and Kazakh partners at Café Milano, an atmospheric restaurant in DC.

When he debated Donald Trump in 2020, Biden claimed that “my son has not made any money on this issue about…China.” A lie.

He called Hunter’s laptop “a Russian factory.” A lie.

One of the emails on that laptop read ’10 [percent] held by H for the big guy” – a reference to Joe, as confirmed by another of Hunter’s longtime business associates, Tony Bobulinski.

In 2020, Joe’s campaign enlisted former intelligence chiefs to back up the false claim that the laptop was a factory. The Justice Department under Biden let the statute of limitations expire on influence peddling allegations, and IRS whistleblowers revealed how it curtailed their investigations into Biden’s family business.

When a sympathetic Delaware prosecutor tried to close the book on this sad saga and give Hunter a sweetheart last summer, the attempted cover-up only fell apart after a brave judge dared to ask for more details. It forced a humiliated DOJ to prosecute the smallest case it could file.

Trading on Joe’s influence was and always has been the entire family business. It also involves Joe’s brother Jim and a web of accounts that allegedly funneled millions back into the family. With the president’s habit of blasting potential crimes still unknown to the public, would anyone be surprised if Uncle Jim were to receive the next pardon? (Photo: Jill with Hunter, left, and Jim Biden in 2008).

When Joe left the vice presidency and his political heir (and only hope) Beau died, it seems the Bidens stepped up their fight to raise money because it looked like the gravy train might be coming to an end.

Now the Bidens are once again confronted with political irrelevance, and the president is brazenly using his pardon power to cover his tracks.

Even the Democrats are tired of the Bidens. And Trump’s new Congress will have its hands full with other matters in the spring.

But the whole Biden cover-up and the filth it has undoubtedly hidden should actually be exposed. A large-scale study seems like a good starting point.

This mess has corrupted at least two presidential administrations. It has made the public more cynical about our politics, our law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and our foreign policy. It has poisoned a decade of American relations with Ukraine.

The history books should at least give more than 10 percent of the blame for all this to the Big Guy.