Miranda Devine: If Joe Biden can pardon his son Hunter, why can’t he do the same for ‘best friend’ Devon Archer?

NY Post ^ | 12/18/24 | Miranda Devine

[Libloather]

The shamelessness of the first family was writ large at the White House this week as the president’s final whirl of Christmas parties attracted social media “influencers” whose biggest thrill was posting selfies with celebrity nepotist Hunter Biden.

In the very week that he was due to be sentenced to jail for tax fraud, the first son merrily pressed the flesh and flashed his $70,000 pearly whites, secure in the knowledge that his father’s “full and unconditional” pardon has got him off the hook for any and all crimes committed for the past 11 years.

The outrage over Hunter’s pardon has been buried in an avalanche of other pardons Joe Biden has been doling out like candy to assorted scumbags.

Among this week’s record round of 1,499 commutations and 39 pardons are Chinese spies and a child-porn aficionado, a Pennsylvania judge convicted over the “Kids for Cash” scandal in which children were sent to for-profit prisons in return for kickbacks, a Mississippi cancer doctor who gave patients only partial doses of chemotherapy, assorted fraudsters and, appropriately, corrupt Democrat politicians.

It’s a fitting end to Biden’s ­benighted presidency.

But there are other people he ought to pardon whose lives have been ruined because they fell afoul of the Bidens.

Take Devon Archer. A self-made man from humble beginnings on Long Island, he was dragged down by his association with Hunter, who called him his “best friend,” and then left him in the lurch when a deal went bad and Archer was charged with fraud.

Archer was not a son of privilege. He grew up the son of a Vietnam vet-turned-Realtor and a teacher.

A talented lacrosse player, he worked hard to get into Yale where he met Chris Heinz, the scion of the ketchup family, and ex-boyfriend of Gwyneth Paltrow.

[Libloather]

It was Hunter’s identity as a “Politically Exposed Person,” flagged by bank investigators as potentially a high risk for bribery and corruption, that eventually led to an FBI investigation that ensnared Archer and others over the collapsed firm Burnham Asset Management. Despite being vice chairman, Hunter was not even called to testify, while Archer lost everything and has spent eight years in legal limbo.

Pedo Pete has one month left.

[Brian Griffin]

I don’t think Hunter will be able to keep his nose clean the rest of his life.

[Singermom]

Because a pardon costs LOTS of $ to joey crime fam. Devon if you do not have a sugar daddy like Hunter did YOU are not special enough to get a pardon. Joey wants MONEY. Pay up or no pardon. Afr all UOU are NOT fam

[Does so]

Pedo PETE?

I can’t keep all these pedos straight.

[dennisw]

DJT47 must pardon Devon Archer. This is the right thing to do, will make good PR. To compare Archers situation with Hunters.

[Gay State Conservative]

Geeze...with the Bidens you can't keep the felons and traitors straight without a scorecard!

[roving]

I would haul him in front of Congress and dare him not answer any questions.

[Red Badger]

Ain’t no money in dat!...............

[SharpRightTurn]

“In the very week that he was due to be sentenced to jail for tax fraud, the first son merrily pressed the flesh and flashed his $70,000 pearly whites, secure in the knowledge that his father’s “full and unconditional” pardon has got him off the hook for any and all crimes committed for the past 11 years. The outrage over Hunter’s pardon has been buried in an avalanche of other pardons Joe Biden has been doling out like candy to assorted scumbags.”

I love Miranda Devine.

[Reily]

Archer! Phrasing?

[ridesthemiles]

I bet on LESS THAN 6 months after 1-20-2025