In the first of the nation caucus, Biden lost to Pete Buttigieg, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren. By the percentage of the final vote, he only beat 5th place rival Amy Klobuchar by a point and a half. A few days later, New Hampshire held their first in the nation primary. Biden did even worse, finishing 5th overall. He garnered only 8.4% of the vote, and earned zero delegates for his efforts. In short, his campaign was all but over with at that point, if you read regime press.

But South Carolina was next up on the primary schedule, and Biden got a lifeline. In fact, he got the floating Titanic door from Rep. Jim Clyburn, then the 3rd-ranking Democrat in the House, who gave a robust endorsement of Joe Biden, and campaigned with him and on his behalf. Biden more than doubled the raw vote count of his closest rival, Bernie Sanders, and used that new-found momentum on Super Tuesday a few days later, and obviously went on to get the nomination, hide out in his basement, and win the general election for no other reason that he was the guy who was not Donald Trump.

From the very beginning of the Biden 2020 campaign, nagging questions about his drug-addled son, Hunter, and his business dealings while Joe was vice president, and whether or not he knew and was in on the Biden, Inc. grift. What follows is a chronological moving of the goalposts from Biden himself and his Democratic allies both in office and in the media. The denials began with righteous indignation that Hunter did not do anything wrong, and that Joe had no contacts, never discussed business with Hunter, and any suggestion to the contrary was preposterous.

Keep in mind as we go Reelin’ In The Years here with video clips, note how relatively cognizant Joe Biden is in 2019-2020, and compare that as we go along to how he appears in public now. It’s a sidebar story to this column, but the idea that Biden is just as sharp as ever is shown as a lie as you move through the clips.

Biden claims he never spoke to Hunter about his overseas business. That was 10/10/19.

A week later, another denial about Hunter and his Ukraine business interests on 10/16/19.

Why no, Joe had no idea Hunter was on the board of Burisma, on 11/1/19.

Zero bases for accusations at Hunter, and by extension, Joe, on CNN, 11/11/19.

Biden got downright persnickety with Axios’ Mike Allen when pressed on Hunter’s business holdings on 12/8/19.

Biden told Christiane Amanpour that nobody at State told him there was a conflict with Hunter’s business dealings on 12/9/19.

He got more persnickety at NBC’s Savannah Guthrie in 2/3/20.

There’s no controversy at all about Hunter, says 10/26/20 Joe Biden.

On 12/18/23, Joe wrote all this simmering scandal about Hunter as foul play used to get to him.

And even though there’s “no controversy” about Hunter, Joe had to promise his Justice Department would be on their own to handle anything on Hunter, if it came up. This was on 12/22/20.

Now that Biden has beaten Donald Trump and had almost a year under his built to trainwreck the economy, regime media was busy trying to wallpaper the scandal as ‘nothing to see here, move along’. This was the week of 10/14/21.

Beginning in 2023, Republicans had gavel and subpoena power to look into Biden, Inc., so the narrative had to shift. This is from 3/20/23, with Biden saying it’s not true his family received millions from China. How would he know, never having discussed business dealing overseas with his family?

By 6/26/23, everyone following the story knew Biden was lying when he said he’d never talked to Hunter about business overseas. It didn’t keep Joe from continually trying to make the case.

The regime media began moving the goalposts by the last week of July, 2023, when it could not be spun any longer that Joe had no knowledge or conversations with Hunter. Instead, the pivot was to offer the argument that there was no evidence that Joe profited personally from Hunter’s deals.

Sarah Bedford, the great political and investigative reporter for the Washington Examiner, has basically owned the reportage on this growing scandal, largely because no one in regime media seems to interested in going there. As of this week, we’ve now learned that Joe’s claim that DOJ would be independent was never true, as four separate IRS whistleblowers have come forward to claim that DOJ actively hindered the investigation into Hunter. We’ve also learned that the Biden, Inc. crime family wasn’t just invested into Communist China and Ukraine. There’s also some oddities dealing with Romania as well. And by oddities, I mean cash flowing into Biden accounts.

Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey has now been indicted for bribery and corruption, and more and more of the country views Biden as lying and obfuscating on the Hunter story. The economy continues to underperform for everyday Americans, with inflation on the march again with no end in sight. And the ABC/Washington Post poll released over the weekend shows that the firewall of support Joe Biden has with Beltway Democrats is that at least he’ll beat Donald Trump, since he’s beat him already once before. With each successive poll, that analysis is increasingly in doubt. So will the Democrats put the LBJ letter on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office? Will Joe Biden hang it up and announce, “I shall not seek, and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president?”

We come back to where we began this odyssey, with Joe Biden’s biggest partisan weapon. When all looked lost in 2020’s first two primary/caucus states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Jim Clyburn handed him the win in South Carolina, and essentially, the keys to the White House. Four years later, will Clyburn save Biden’s bacon again? Or will he stay in the background this time and not try to inject himself into the presidential contest?

Yesterday on Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Clyburn answered that question by choosing option one. Biden’s still his guy, and in the process of claiming Biden’s still his guy, he took goalpost moving to an Olympic-level art form. Remember, we were all told Joe never discussed business with Hunter, that there was nothing controversial. That’s out the window now.

So not only did Joe have conversations with Hunter, and probably did help bring in some cash into Biden, Inc. accounts, it’s totally fine because that’s what loving fathers do to support their kids. You’re darned right it’s corrupt, but then again, it’s not corrupt if you do it because you love your kids. And you don’t impeach a president for loving your kids. That’s the new spin from Clyburn.

My guess is that if there actually is an article of impeachment against Joe Biden, which I seriously doubt because of both the proximity to the 2024 Election and the proximity of Kalama Harris to the Oval Office, one of the counts won’t be because he’s a father that loved his son. It might have something to do with influence peddling and corruption within Justice to cover up crimes committed by Hunter. But that’s where the story is. Yes, it’s pretty clear Joe knew. Of course, he knew. But he loves his son, so it’s okay.

You know who else loved her kid? Lori Loughlin. She did time for committing fraud to get her daughter into a prestigious college. Loving your kid is good. Abetting and colluding with them to commit felonies? Not so good.