Calling this man a political expert was always absurd. Biden acted to protect his family from Trump’s pattern of political retaliation. Trump uses pardons to cover for corruption. If you can’t tell the difference, Chuck, you’re a bigger fool than I thought.
Perhaps Trump would have done this regardless, but let’s not forget Biden created this pre-emptive pardon precedent. The only good news that might come out of this pardon corruption: we will get a bipartisan supported Constitutional amendment to create a Congressional nullification process for all presidential pardons.