President Biden’s post-presidency now looks as bleak as his brutal final months.
- Some top Democrats tell us they’re so furious about Biden’s abrupt, clumsy pardon of his son Hunter that they’re threatening to withhold donations from his future presidential library.
- “If they had their sh*t together, they would have been doing the work on this over the summer — right after he announced he was stepping aside,” one well-wired Democrat told us. “Now, it’s just too late. Hopefully they are rightsizing their expectations and budget!”
Why it matters: Biden, 82, will limp away from the limelight — widely disliked by the public, and now loathed by many Democrats who blame him for twin sins of selfishness: running again, then pardoning Hunter after repeatedly saying he wouldn’t.
Some in Biden’s family have been shocked by the number of Democrats trashing his Hunter decision on the record, sources tell us. They expected some blowback — not a wicked backlash.
- But even Biden’s best friends think it was nuts to pardon Hunter as a solo act on the same evening he left for a long-promised three-day trip to Africa.
Zoom in: As cover, the president could have pardoned President-elect Trump at the same time — or pardoned Hunter along with dozens of people whose convictions appear to result from injustices.
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