President Joe Biden appears to be preparing the ground for a pardon as the Department of Justice nears a decision on whether to charge his son, Hunter Biden, with a slew of felonies relating to tax and firearms concerns.

This is the opinion of Miranda Divine, a journalist for the New York Post and author of “Laptop From Hell,” a book about the first son’s problems.

Devine made her remarks to Fox News following a rare sit-down interview in which Joe Biden ruled out the possibility that his son would be prosecuted and stated that it would not affect his political career.

“My son has done nothing wrong,” Biden said during the sit-down interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that aired at 10 p.m. Friday. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him,” he continued.

“That mythology of Joe Biden that’s been around for more than four decades, which is that he’s a lovely family man… moderate Democrat, lunch pail Joe, working-class Joe, the poorest man in Congress, and a wonderful family man full of empathy because of the tragedies in his own life. That’s what he’s playing on,” Devine said.

“I think the end game is that he’s setting up… framing this sympathy card so that when it comes time, perhaps in his lame duck period, that he will pardon Hunter and Americans will forgive him because they will say, well, Hunter was a drug addict and Joe just loves his family, and he’s been through enough tragedy in his life,” she continued. “Leave him alone.”

She went on to say that she believes Joe Biden’s statement to Ruhle was premeditated and intended to portray the effort to accuse his son as a “political witch hunt.”

“It’s obviously rehearsed, and the plan for Joe Biden is to just remove himself entirely from the influence-peddling operation that he was involved in with his son Hunter and his brother Jim, pretend that it has nothing to do with him, and that Hunter is just being persecuted in a political witch hunt,” she told Fox News.

“That’s probably the only way he can go, considering he’s lied about his involvement since before the 2020 election,” she added. “And it will work for him with those Americans, and there are still many of them who believe that Joe Biden, that his only scene is that he loves his son too much.”

According to a report from last week, the DOJ is about to determine whether or not to file charges against Hunter Biden after conducting extensive investigations into potential tax and gun purchase offenses.

According to the New York Post, federal prosecutors and Hunter Biden’s attorneys met last week and decided whether or not to press forward.

More on this story via The Republic Brief:

Prosecutors from the US Attorney’s office in Delaware and legal counsel for the first son met to discuss the ongoing investigation into Hunter’s alleged tax violations and filing a false federal gun purchase form. Over the course of the investigation, two presidential administrations and four years have passed. CONTINUE READING…