Remember how he used to claim that he never talked with Hunter about the son's business dealings? The photo above is from Biden's 2013 arrival in Beijing on an official visit as vice president. Who's that other man in the door of Air Force Two?

The vice president gave son Hunter a free ride there on a U.S. government jet so he could seal one of his shady multi-million-dollar business deals with a Chinese company.

Biden doesn't appear that much in public anymore. Not because he's ashamed of his record or his serial lies. When he was supposed to "honor" a pro basketball team recently, he couldn't be bothered learning in advance what team it was.

But because the commander in chief, who's taken 40 percent of his term off on vacation, is mailing it in. So, for that matter, is what's-her-name the word salad chef.

The Big Guy knows he'll get the rest of his $400,000 salary anyway and then his $226,000 annual pension as long as he's alive, despite the awful job he's done.

This week, the man who revealed his moral character way back in 1988 when he got caught plagiarizing speeches pardoned his son of all crimes he's been convicted of or pled guilty to, clearing the record for the misbegotten influence peddler, alcoholic, drug addict, and deadbeat dad, among other offenses. As well as any new crimes unearthed during an 11-year period.

Most of us have long since given up expecting seemly behavior from that man and his brood. But this week, Joe Biden went back on his oft-professed promise that he would never ever pardon his son, out of respect, you understand, for our country's legal processes. 

The same legal processes he unleashed against his chief political opponent.

But now, on the way out the door (but not fast enough), Biden chucked that promise and gave his son a complete presidential pardon to repay the artful dodger who groused about having to pay 10 percent of his influence-peddling take to some "Big Guy."

I'll have a good deal more to say about Joe Biden's hypocrisy and pardon in this coming Sunday's column.

The most recent audio commentary examined how Thanksgiving has changed from the first one established during Abraham Lincoln's presidency, when it was a sincere moment of thanks for all that we have received as a nation, until today's commercial version full of football.

The most recent Sunday column examined Kamala Harris' $1.4 billion grift on the country's political process and Democrats' gullible donor class and what she might do with her remaining life that would, of course, involve the easiest political path and least amount of serious work.

If presidential pardon developments are your thing, my RedState colleagues have covered pretty much every conceivable angle here.

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