Joe and Hunter Biden and the Rule of Law – WSJ

They have spent four years in a prosecutorial pursuit of Mr. Trump, much of which was a nakedly political lawfare campaign to undermine and ultimately lock up their political opponent. The Hunter pardon represents something like the inverse of lawfare: the use of executive power to shield the Democrats favorites from the reach of justice, thereby upholding the worst sort of double standard and undermining respect for the rule of law itself.

Backdating the pardon to cover all potential crimes from 2014 onward is especially egregious. Most acts of presidential clemency are retrospective, washing away a criminal conviction or foreshortening a prison sentence for a felony. This one looks deliberately designed to block a likely investigative process of real significance. Many legitimate questions remain unanswered about the Bidens foreign entanglements in Ukraine and China in the period when Joe Biden was vice president and then out of office after 2017.

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Gerald Baker.

I’m not outraged but then it takes a lot to outrage me lately.