Well, that’s a seriously historical feat. With the pardon of son Hunter Biden — for all manner of influence-peddling schemes, not to mention the revelations about what critics refer to as the “Biden crime family” — when added to the outcome of Joe Biden’s presidential record of wars in Ukraine and Israel, the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal, and more, puts a period and exclamation point on what will be recorded as one of the most corrupt and incompetent presidencies in American history. Somewhere Presidents James Buchanan and Warren Harding are smiling. It is a well-recorded historical fact that presidential historians have long since rated Buchanan, the 15th president, and Harding, the 29th, as two of the worst presidents in American history. Buchanan gets his low marks since it was during his administration that the American union began to fall apart, with Buchanan, a career politician, utterly unable to stop this — handing over a massive mess to his successor Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was left to fight the Civil War that erupted, winning it after four very bloody years, and his presidency was immortalized as the nation’s greatest, ending in the simultaneous Union victory and his assassination martyrdom. Harding gets low marks because of the scandals that came to light after his sudden death in the third year of his term. A one-time Senator from Ohio, it seemed that Harding’s fellow Ohio cronies and others, known to history as “the Ohio gang,” had their hands dipped in the business of what became known as the “Teapot Dome” scandal. Teapot Dome revolved around Harding’s Interior Secretary accepting bribes from oil companies to get oil leases at the federally owned Naval Petroleum Reserve Teapot Dome oil field in Wyoming. The Interior Secretary, one Albert Fall, made history as being the first presidential cabinet member to be sentenced to federal prison for accepting bribes. Now comes President Joe Biden. Son Hunter had well-documented influence-peddling problems, with big money going to “the Big Guy” — his office-holding father. Dealing with a drug addiction problem, USA Today lists Hunter’s legal problems as: Lying on a federal screening form about his drug use Lying to a gun dealer Possessing a gun despite restrictions for people addicted to drugs USA Today added, “Just before another federal trial was scheduled to start in September, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to three felonies and six misdemeanors that alleged he failed to pay $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019.” An investigation into Biden family activities was held by the Republican-controlled House Oversight Committee, which released a report saying, in part, this: Evidence obtained by Committee Republicans reveals Joe Biden lied to the American people about his involvement in his family’s business schemes. The Biden family business model is built on Joe Biden’s political career and connections with Joe Biden as the ‘chairman of the board.’ Biden family members sold access for profit around the world to the detriment of American interests. If President Biden is compromised by deals with foreign adversaries and they are impacting his decision making, this is a threat to national security. The American people deserve transparency and accountability about the Biden family’s influence peddling. With the new Republican majority, Oversight Committee Republicans will continue pressing for answers to inform legislative solutions to prevent this abuse of power. In short, the massive amount of Biden family influence-peddling would make Warren Harding’s “Ohio Gang” look like pikers. And all of that before one gets to the Biden foreign policy disasters that invited Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine, Hamas to invade Israel, and resulted in American lives being lost in the disaster that was the Biden Afghanistan withdrawal. Now, in a little over a month, Biden will be leaving the White House. But history records that a president’s conduct in the White House, whether good, bad, or indifferent, will follow that president for historical eternity. Already the Biden presidency, as illuminated by Biden’s need to pardon his son Hunter, will live forever in the presidential historical record books as one of the worst, most inept, and corrupt presidencies in presidential history. Giving Warren Harding and James Buchanan, wherever they may be, something to smile about. READ MORE from Jeffrey Lord: Draining the D.C. Swamp Picks Up Steam Trump v. Washington Giving Thanks for Pilgrim William Bradford The post The Biden Corruption appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.