"If anyone could do with a pardon, it's Genocide Joe, at least Hunter's crimes were the ordinary banal ones of an inadequate and spoilt druggy..."

That may be true, John, but isn't there huge questions about his financial corruption involving China and the Ukraine?
Not sure of the details but I do know he was under investigation for millions of dollars received from these two countries for dodgy dealings.
A lot more to those proceedings than I say here and of course, he was never formally charged with anything but his crimes might be just a bit less "banal" than using drugs and some shenanigans about gun ownership forms.


Of course, as you rightly say, if anyone was up for a pardon, Genocide Joe would be head of the line...doubt that would help him in the afterlife though, if there is one...deserves a bit of that "eternal damnation", you mention!