Hunter’s pardon is the Biden crime family’s admission of guilt

However, according to the Supreme Court’s 1915 ruling in Burdick v. United States, a pardon confers “an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it.” Had the younger Biden merely ignored or rejected his father’s pardon, the pardon itself would imply nothing about the recipient’s guilt. However, by filing the pardon in court, Burdick indicates that Hunter Biden has indeed confessed his guilt.

A narrower pardon, perhaps a mere commutation of the anticipated sentencing resulting from the criminal convictions, would have proven a more sympathetic move from the president as a matter of mitigating the scope of how egregiously he broke his oft-repeated promise not to pardon his son. However, such a pardon would have also had the personal benefit of implying that the president wasn’t concerned about his son’s possible other crimes, including bribery or violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act while he was trading on the Biden family moniker while conducting shady business deals abroad, implicating the president (who was, from 2014 through 2016, still the vice president) personally.

Instead, just as Weiss pursued as narrow a prosecution of Hunter Biden as possible specifically to insulate other Biden family members and the family business from his pursuit, the president issued as broad a pardon as possible. The pardon isn’t just as broad in scope as the previously unparalleled pardon former President Gerald Ford gave to former President Richard Nixon, pardoning Hunter Biden for any possible crimes, including those unrelated to his criminal convictions. The pardon also covers a whopping 11 years, nearly three times the four-year window of the Nixon pardon.

The timing itself is hilarious, given just how specific the window is. The pardon will begin on Jan. 1, 2014. The next month, the Navy Reserve discharged Hunter Biden for testing positive for cocaine. Two months after that, he scored his now infamous seat on the board of Burisma Holdings, and another two months after that, his ex-wife, Kathleen Buhle, would find photos of him with prostitutes abroad while he was in rehab in Mexico. Recall that Weiss’s original investigation centered on whether Hunter Biden illegally failed to register as a foreign agent, his illegal drug use, and whether he violated sex trafficking laws in hiring hookers internationally. (Contrary to the common discourse, sex workers in second and third-world countries aren’t often selling their bodies out of some feminist sense of empowerment.)

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Most pertinent to the leader of the free world himself is whether he knew that his son was profiting off the family name while illicitly representing foreign adversaries. Any possible investigation into the president’s professional conduct rather than Hunter Biden’s mere personal failings would pertain to Burisma, BHR Holdings, and the Biden family business dealings that indeed resulted in money wired to the president’s house, not Hunter’s.

So when Hunter Biden submitted his pardon as his golden ticket to shut the whole Weiss investigation down, it was as much his own personal admission of guilt as it was his father’s confession. Far from being about protecting Hunter Biden from a 60-day stint in the slammer for tax evasion, the president’s categorial pardon proved that he needed to exercise unparalleled power to protect himself from future investigations related to the Biden family business. Indeed, with that confession, it is transparently evident that the Biden crime family is truly a family operation.