In early May of 1940, the British public had had enough of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, whose fecklessness at Munich two years earlier had allowed Hitler to dominate Europe. Not even the pleas of Winston Churchill, the then-First Lord of the Admiralty, for unity in the face of the enemy could save him. Conservative Member of Parliament Leo Amery summed up the public’s ire by quoting Oliver Cromwell in a fiery speech in the House of Commons: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!” Last Sunday, our own beleaguered republic reached its own “Amery moment” with its leader. When he chose to broadly pardon his son Hunter Biden despite his repeated claims that he would not, President Biden once again revealed his utter contempt for the rule of law and the American people. As bitter as this pill is to swallow, it is the price we must pay to turn the page on his disastrous presidency. In a just world, we would never have had to suffer through a Joe Biden presidency. The 2020 “October surprise” of Hunter Biden’s laptop should have killed his candidacy just as cleanly as his plagiarism did back in 1988. It took an unholy alliance of the deep state, the legacy press, and social media companies to guarantee that the truth would not come out in time to tip the election in Trump’s favor. But try as he might, President Biden could not hide the truth forever. When questions kept coming up about the relationship between Hunter and the “Big Guy,” stalling and obfuscation became the order of the day. The president’s Department of Justice slow-walked tax evasion charges related to Hunter’s years working for the Ukrainian energy company Burisma and later offered him the sweetest of all plea deals. Only the testimony of IRS whistleblowers and the integrity of a federal judge stopped the truth from being buried. Despite all the legal doublespeak and maneuvering, the American people know when something stinks. At the beginning of this year, only 22 percent of likely voters believed that Joe Biden was somehow innocent of any involvement with Hunter’s corrupt dealings. Reporters asked Karine Jean-Pierre about the possibility of a pardon for Hunter as early as July of 2023. The same question came up multiple times after Hunter’s conviction on federal gun charges in June of this year when his father was still the Democrat nominee. Their need for reassurance on the matter reveals that even these devout partisans sensed that they could not trust the president’s repeated denials. Hunter’s surprise guilty plea to federal tax charges in September, after his father was forced to abandon his campaign in July, is also evidence that he knew that he would never be sentenced for that crime, no matter what lies were used to mollify the public and whitewash the mess. Given the chaotic nature of Vice President Kamala Harris’s replacement of President Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, it is probable that pardoning Hunter was a key element in negotiating the president’s endorsement that forestalled any “mini-primary” or convention floor fight. Even President-elect Trump floated the idea of a pardon back in late October. Taking all this into account, absolutely no one should be surprised by the president’s change of heart on this matter. Hunter’s entire life has been an exercise in using his father’s position to both prosper and dodge accountability; this is just the latest and most egregious example of the pattern. The president-elect was right to call this pardon “an abuse and miscarriage of justice.” What’s more, its vague covering of all crimes over the past eleven years is tantamount to an admission of not only Hunter’s corrupt dealings but his father’s involvement in them. But as much as this situation offends any sane person’s sense of justice, the political realities of the moment forbid any substantive effort to circumvent the pardon. An attempt by the incoming Trump administration to do so would needlessly play into the left’s hypocritical narrative that Trump is planning to weaponize the justice system to punish his opponents. It would also bleed time and resources from the much-needed housecleaning he has promised at the Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies. Others have noted that the precedent for the broad Hunter Biden pardon is Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon in 1974. Though that pardon was controversial at the time, the American people came to understand that the pursuit of justice for Watergate was not worth the societal cost. Trump came to a similar conclusion in his first term when he reconsidered prosecuting Hilary Clinton for her email scandal. Ford was inspired in part by a 1915 Supreme Court decision (Burdick v. United States) in which the court ruled that the acceptance of a pardon is an admission of guilt. If this is true in a court of law for Hunter Biden, then it is certainly so in the court of public opinion for Joe Biden. We may not get the satisfaction of seeing either of them do a perp walk, but at least come January, this corrupt family will slither back to Delaware and never be allowed to darken the door of American politics again. You’ve gotten away with it, President Biden. Now, in the name of God, go! READ MORE from Robert Busack: Radical Feminists Misread ‘Lysistrata’ Is the Educational Establishment Finally Starting to Crack? Democracy Dies in Demagoguery The post Pardoning Hunter Biden Is the Unjust Price America Must Pay to Turn the Page on Biden’s Presidency appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.