Weakness in politics is never rewarded.
Joe Biden should have thought about that while lying in bed, gasping for breath, with aides in the pay of donors hovering over him and pressing him to drop out. As the party nominee, he was being protected by the government and the media. Now he’s just an unwanted old man lying on a Delaware beach in the hot weather. Hunter tried to tell him, but now the best Jr can hope for is that dad is compos mentis enough to write a pardon before he’s shoved off the pier.
This isn’t some conspiracy theory. It’s not even the subtext in the New York Times article reporting on it.