Don’t let the door hit you on the best way out, Joe.
In case it was misplaced following the dramatic election cycle, President Joe Biden’s final full month of workplace has served as a grim reminder he was one of many worst leaders this nation has had in trendy historical past.
His approval ranking is a dismal 34%, his worst since taking workplace.
Final month, Biden introduced he was commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 folks on federal demise row, changing their punishments to life imprisonment.
That features a man from Michigan who in 1997 killed a 19-year-old girl who had accused him of rape. Laden by cinder blocks with duct tape on her face, she was discovered by fishermen on the backside of Oxford Lake, a part of a nationwide forest, after disappearing days earlier than the person’s trial was set to start.
The girl had an 18-month-old daughter, Shannon, who additionally disappeared and was by no means discovered.
Biden additionally commuted the jail sentences of roughly 1,500 federal inmates, a part of the “largest single-day grant of clemency in trendy historical past,” because the Biden administration bragged.
That features the remaining time of a former Pennsylvania choose who carried out a “kids-for-cash” scandal by which he despatched children to a non-public jail he helped construct in change for kickbacks.
However Biden started December with maybe the largest whopper lie of his presidency — that he wouldn’t pardon his son, Hunter Biden, for federal tax and gun convictions.
The president mentioned unequivocally earlier than and after the 2024 election that he wouldn’t accomplish that, or commute his sentence.
But on Dec. 1, Biden gave validity to the seeping notion there’s a two-tier system of justice within the nation by granting Hunter Biden a “full and unconditional pardon,” masking the 10-year tenure of his involvement with abroad corporations, from which he’s suspected to have closely profited.
The transfer destroyed what dignity was left of the Biden presidency.
And beneath Biden’s whole time period is the query: who was actually working the federal government?
A Dec. 19 report by the Wall Avenue Journal detailed disturbingly how Biden’s aides, household and advisors managed his apparent limitations throughout his whole time in workplace — after which put him as much as run for a second time period.
Interactions with senior Democratic lawmakers floor to a halt, as did conferences with vital secretaries, akin to Protection’s Lloyd Austin and Treasury’s Janet Yellen. Legislative leaders couldn’t speak to the president, together with earlier than the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
“Senior advisers have been typically put into roles that some administration officers and lawmakers thought Biden ought to occupy,” the report says.
All of it makes good sense for those who assume again to the June debate between Donald Trump and Biden, when his psychological decline was laid naked to the complete globe.
Nevertheless it raises questions on his whole tenure.
The Biden presidency will go down as one shrouded in dishonesty, corruption and instability — a time when American management failed the world and our chief failed us.
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