Isn’t it nice when your father is president of the United States? The White House is not ruling out a potential commutation for Hunter Biden, the president’s son who was convicted on three federal gun crimes and is set to be sentenced by a judge in the coming months.
Politically a commutation would confirm the idea that people in high places or friends of people with right connections are treated differently than the rest of the population. In the case of Hunter Biden a commutation would affirm Donald Trump’s contentions that his conviction was politically motivated. A rigged trial is what Trump will likely say again and again.

Since Joe Biden puts family above everything else this could lead to his decision to not run for re-election.