This is one heck of an election year, and I don't have to tell you why. As I write this, it is the early morning of October 21, 2020, and with about two weeks left in the election period, the rest of us are pretty much hoping it will just be over quickly.
There has been all manner of relevant and irrelevant diversions and actual crises coming to play in this, the year of COVID-19, but one particularly is concerning. That would be the revelation that Joe Biden, the Democrats' candidate and former vice president, apparently was getting a percentage kicked back to him from the strange dealings his son Hunter had with the Chinese and the Ukranians and at least another country or two.
Well, that's half the deal.
The other half is that the story, although quite a bit better-documented and with more evidence than the invented scandal that got President Trump impeached, has been buried by the major media, Fox News excepted. Broken by the New York Post, the story has gotten the Post's Twitter account suspended by applying a rule that didn't actually apply, and the major networks have almost totally ignored the story.
So while we have the conspiracy among Big Tech and the mainstream media to prevent your knowing that Joe Biden sold out his own country while vice president, we still have the actual facts of the case, i.e., the sellout, and its impact on the election. We have the FBI, its senior leadership still apparently anti-Trump, hanging onto evidence for months without doing anything with it.
With two weeks left, I have the perfect solution to President Trump's dilemma about how to get the story out there when the mainstream media refuse to cover it.
Issue a pardon to Joe Biden, right now, for the crimes of influence peddling and treason.
Now, tell me that's not the perfect solution! Think about it -- with Joe Biden pardoned, no one can claim that an immediate high-octane FBI investigation into Hunter Biden's actions is "political" or "influencing the election", since the candidate has been pardoned. But clearly any manure that is dug up as to what Hunter did dramatically implicates the now-immune Joe Biden and the stench would stay with him even if criminality no longer could.
Moreover, the media simply could not let this go; they'd have to report on it, which would provide some oxygen to the whole Hunter-kicking-back-cash-to-the-Big-Guy aspect. They couldn't possibly leave that one alone.
In fact, since the last debate is tomorrow night, maybe Trump ought to bring the pardon with him, so that the whole nation can see it, and the poor slobs out there who only watch CNN or ABC News could ask themselves "Hunter who?" and maybe learn what's been hidden from them.
OK, I'm plagiarizing myself a bit; I wrote in 2017 that President Trump should have pardoned Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama (but not the Clinton Foundation) so as to allow the FBI to move on to other affairs and still provide the "stink" that would never leave them. I've kept that idea handy for just such a moment as this.
If you know anyone with the President's ear, I hope you will make sure this idea comes up to his desk, really soon now. I'd love to see his face when he hears it.
Joe, you are pardoned. But not forgiven.
Copyright 2020 by Robert Sutton
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