Fox News' Madeleine Rivera reports the latest on President Biden's decision to pardon his son, Hunter. The 'Fox & Friends' co-hosts react to the news and what it means for any current legal proceedings.

Some time ago, I was asked on air whether President Joe Biden would pardon his son, Hunter. My response was blunt, if not obvious: "He repeatedly insists that he will not, which means that he will."

The question was a no-brainer. Biden was always going to pardon his son. That he lied about it repeatedly for months should surprise no one. While his record in Washington is conspicuous for his many failures, it is his proclivity for dishonesty, fabrications, and epic lies that are so pronounced.

They date back to 1988 when Biden was forced to drop out of the presidential race for plagiarizing a speech and brazenly lying about his academic resume. Since then, the fibs, fables, and falsehoods became so prodigious they would consume volumes of print. He belongs at the apex of the DC Liars Hall of Fame for his mendacious whoppers.

BIDEN PARDONS SON HUNTER BIDEN AHEAD OF EXIT FROM WHITE HOUSE

Biden’s pardon fiction was months in the making and politically driven. As NBC reports, the likelihood of clemency was discussed last June when Hunter was first convicted on gun charges in Delaware. But the White House decided to "publicly say that (the president) would not pardon his son even though doing so remained on the table."

Over and over again in the run up to the presidential election, Biden proclaimed that he would honor the justice system and allow the convictions to stand. When Hunter entered guilty pleas on tax charges in Los Angeles, the elder Biden doubled-down on the promise that he had no intention of keeping.

Knowing that a pardon would trigger an electoral firestorm, Biden and his staff deliberately chose to deceive the American people because disclosing the truth would damage Democrat chances of holding on to the........

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