The pardon goes back to when Hunter started at Burisma. What a coinkydink. Joe can't think that far ahead, but tinfoil hat thoughts say stringpullers slapped Hunter with pitiful little charges to claim they were being fair and just, with this far reaching pardon waiting in the wings as Plan B to keep Joe, and likely many of those string pullers, from getting indicted for all the pay to play and money laundering that was going on.