I said when Joe dropped out of the race that he’d pardon Hunter before Xmas. And it wouldn’t have mattered if Kamala won. Especially after watching all the criminal cohorts and lackeys that Trump pardoned. Wtf does Joe care what anyone says or thinks about it? He wanted to run again and was forced to get out. Rightly or wrongly, that had to hurt. But there was one silver lining. Regardless of the outcome of the election, Hunter would be home for the holidays. It would’ve been no stain on Kamala if she had won the election (and she wouldn’t have to face the dilemma of whether to issue the pardon herself which she definitely couldn’t do as much as she may have wanted to because of all of Trump’s sleazy pardons).
There is no way in hell Trump wouldn’t have done the same. He’s done far worse and he’s just getting warmed up. Just watch how he doles out the pardons in the future. Any Trumper feigning outrage over this is completely full of shit and should be dismissed out of hand. They’re not serious people and can rightly go fuck themselves.