When he was once asked if he would pardon his son, President Joe Biden said no. It’s time for him to rethink that answer.

His successor wants to stack the DOJ with an AG loyalist who’s been investigated for sex trafficking plus three lawyers on the Trump family payroll.

Hunter Biden is facing a maximum sentence of 25 years on firearms charges, and a maximum of 17 years for tax charges. Does anybody think he could get a fair shake from the incoming Trump crowd?

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Biden is not facing re-election, and it’s doubtful that Democrats will be punished as a party if he exercises his right as a president to pardon his only living son. If he doesn’t want to break his word “as a Biden,” a family motto he often invokes, he can take the road less traveled and commute his son’s sentence, which would allow Hunter to avoid any possible jail time.

The charges against him are wildly inflated, with sentencing scheduled in Delaware on Dec. 12 on three felonies related to his signing a form falsely attesting he wasn’t a drug user when purchasing a gun he never fired. The tax charges come to a head on Dec. 17 in a California court.

“I don’t think Biden is going to pardon Hunter,” says Jim Kessler with Third Way, a progressive centrist Democrat group. He speculates that Trump likes “showing he does things that are........

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