If part of what makes Biden interesting are his vices, his pardon appeals to some as a measure of justice, however imperfect, for a man whose intentions seemed purer than his actions, and whose personal redemption was pursued by what could easily be seen as politically motivated prosecutions. (He was convicted earlier this year of lying about his drug use on a gun order. He pleaded guilty to federal tax evasion charges in September and faced a maximum of 25 years in prison.) Did he frequent strip clubs and pay for them? Sex? Well, sex work is work! Did he have a secret relationship with his brother’s widow? This is tragic! Did he father a child in Arkansas, request a paternity test, and spend years in a court battle with the child’s mother? Don’t worry, she’s getting her child support payments back and Hunter paintings! Does everyone have a solid understanding of the ins and outs of Hunter’s nefarious business dealings in Ukraine? Absolutely not! “Good for him,” another friend texted me, referring to the president who issued the pardon. “Now do everyone on death row and get the helicopter out of the White House with two middle fingers in the air.”
Naturally, while some cheered Hunter’s change of fortune, politicians and media pundits went on the attack en masse, taking to their keyboards to declare that Biden had tarnished his reputation by reneging on his promise not to grant his son clemency.
California Governor Gavin Newsom, long viewed as the Democratic presidential nominee, He said POLITICO: “With everything the president and his family have been through, I completely understand the instinct to protect Hunter. But I took the president’s words seriously. “So, by definition, I am disappointed and cannot support the decision.”
But perhaps no one was more obsessed with Hunter Biden than the conservative journalists at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation. It was New York PostPage Six first reported in 2017 that Biden was In a relationship With his widow, Haley Biden. mail He spent years covering the acrimonious child support court case between Biden and Lunden Roberts with the breathless enthusiasm of his nosy aunt, and apparently wasn’t quite sure how to reconcile the fact that Roberts was Biden’s “baby mama.” and A Carry weapons A “pro-American” presence on social media.
But the tabloid focused entirely on Hunter’s win in 2020 when… Break the news From Biden’s now-infamous laptop, which contained not only what he called “irrefutable proof” of Biden’s shady business dealings abroad, but also a collection of “saucy videos” and photos of the president’s son having consensual sex and drug use. Pictures of Hunter’s penis have become such a staple of cable news that their pixelated presence has been turned into a meme.
However, with all due respect to Hunter Biden, the actual man, none of this actually matters much outside of the echo chamber of editorials and the angry news cycle. The hunter we love is a character we invoke in our silly group conversations, as opposed to what happened Onions I did when I was created “Joe Diamond.” With any luck, the outgoing president’s son will live a happy, sober life and fade from the collective consciousness like Roger Clinton before him. Or that’s how we, the twisted brotherhood of the Hunter fandom, will have it. hopefully.
