An oft-cited Lily Tomlin line was made for the moment: “No matter how cynical you get, it’s impossible to keep up.”
It fits our turbulent times for many reasons, including a White House promise that President Biden will not pardon his son.
Cynics know that somewhere there’s small print saying there will be no pardon until Hunter Biden is convicted of a crime!
After all, this is the same Joe Biden who denied for years that he ever talked with Hunter about the son’s business.
He repeated the lie despite numerous pictures of Joe with Hunter, his partners and foreign paymasters.
Unsustainable now that the truth is clear, that lie has been shelved for a more narrow White House claim: the president was “never in business” with his son.
But wait, he was the “big guy” in a China deal, so how long can that lie last?
If it were up to Attorney General Merrick Garland (inset), the Biden lies would last forever.
Thankfully, the bitter partisan hack didn’t get his way and now he’s lost control of the narrative.
The collapse of the sweetheart deal Garland’s Department of Justice tried to give Hunter Biden marks a pivotal moment in the hunt for the truth about the family’s influence-peddling schemes.
Not content to let Hunter skip jail on two serious tax charges and a gun charge that should have been treated as three felonies, Garland’s flunkies secretly tucked in a broad immunity gift as well.
The blanket shield against any other charges based on past misconduct was so inappropriate that the only possible explanation is that the aim was to shut down the probe of the family permanently.
That way, Hunter could escape further scrutiny and the dirt on dear old dad would remain hidden, even under a Republican president.
The discovery of that disgraceful sweetener by federal Judge Maryellen Noreika blew up the deal, but that must be only the start of the fallout.
Because any agreement on such an important criminal case would have needed the approval of Garland or his top deputy, Lisa Monaco, neither can be trusted again to have the final word on the Biden investigation.
The mistrust is underscored by an insider telling me with certainty the FBI was never shown the plea agreement before it was submitted to the court, a shocking break with usual practice.
The insider also said FBI leaders would have objected to the deal as far too lenient if they had seen it.
That leaves just two acceptable paths forward.
First, Garland must appoint a special prosecutor, taking the Biden case as far as possible out of his hands and away from his office.
But given his dual sins of protecting the president and his family while unleashing a double-barreled legal assault against Donald Trump, anyone Garland appoints would be suspect — unless the AG seeks the advice of congressional Republicans.
Even The New York Times, which has protected the Bidens by ignoring evidence the president shared in the family’s illicit millions, made the plea collapse the top story on Thursday’s front page.
Other leftist media also finally gave the case prominent play, and once the public digests the facts and implications, the Bidens will find themselves even more isolated among Democrats.
The president’s sudden Friday announcement that he recognizes Hunter’s out-of-wedlock daughter as his grandchild was an act of desperation, not decency.
As I wrote recently, growing public awareness of the family’s corruption, along with his low approval ratings, likely will force Biden to announce he will not seek a second term.
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