After the election, I completely checked out of all news. No CNN or MSNBC. No online newspapers. No political podcasts. No SNL or late-night talk shows either. But the news about Hunter Biden’s pardon did break through:
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.
I’m happy for the Bidens to put this behind them. It says a lot about Joe that he wrestled with this decision. He has always tried to do what is right and mostly succeeded. We are now in a somewhat dark period in this country where truth doesn’t matter because millions of people don’t know anything. Despite limitless access to human knowledge, only the viral and sensational have reach.
Democrats need to rethink the old rules. Democrats need to say and do what’s right without giving a fuck what anyone else thinks. This pardon might be the first step.