This is still the season of 2024 election books written by mainstream media reporters who make you think that they’re going to reveal all sorts of important inside information by distributing a few tidbits before pulling back into the conventional mainstream media narrative.

So I’ll save you the trouble of reading the Wall Street Journal’s excerpt from “2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America” and cut to the chase and the first and only paragraph worth reading

June 2024 was going to be a momentous month for Joe Biden’s presidency: trips to France and Italy, a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles with Barack Obama, George Clooney and Julia Roberts, and the first debate against Donald Trump. But there was another matter at the top of the president’s mind. As Biden confided to a close friend, “The only thing I care about is that my son is not convicted.”

Here’s the real question, which the article and book refuse to seriously grapple with, what did Biden actually do about it, beyond those last minute pardons?

We’re talking about an administration that shamelessly abused its power on domestic and foreign policy. We have multiple quotes from Biden attacking his AG for insufficently going after Trump and for going after Hunter Biden. Beyond quotes passed down from the people he chatted with, what did he really do?

It’s a question the media won’t answer. Making papers public, like the recent Russiagate tranche released, might. (I didn’t bother covering those because the CIA report didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know, blaming most things on Brennan and the FBI.)

How far did Biden go in protecting his son, his family and ultimately himself? It’s a question the media will never ask.