Why would he do that? His dad can pardon him (and will) at any moment.
“can pardon him (and will)”
Will he? I don’t think that’s a foregone conclusion.
If his advisors told him “Joe, you can’t pardon Hunter before the election, it’s bad optics”, I think Joe would just go along with them.
I think one has to be convicted of a crime before you can be pardoned for a crime.
But it’s not as if we have
rule of law
in our nation of aristocracy
these days.