The most telling sentence in President Joe Biden’s disgustingly dishonest statement pardoning his son Hunter was, “For my entire career, I have followed a simple principle: Just tell the American people the truth.”

People don’t plead their honesty like that unless they know it is in tatters. And, boy, is Biden’s in tatters. He is well aware that the nation (everyone except his toadies) will recoil at the pardon. For it is odious both for the fact of it and for the string of falsehoods the president used to justify it.