Trump pardons son of despicable (but probably generous) mom who targeted Biden family

To show they love their sons, most moms give them hugs and encouragement — and impart life lessons designed to keep them out of prison.

But what’s a mom to do when her parenting fails, and her son is a convicted tax cheat headed for 18 months in prison and a $4.4 million fine?

Tell the kid that if he does the crime, he must do the time — especially if he’s swindling his own employees to pay for a decadent lifestyle?

Silly rabbit. Of course, not.

If you’re a mom, like Elizabeth Fago, who really loves your felonious kid, like Paul Walczak, you attend a million-dollar dinner for the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and probably write a big check so that he pardons your child, according to the New York Times.

After all, you’re a woman of questionable character yourself. You, too, have been nailed by the IRS for skimping on payroll taxes — roughly $8.3 million.

And in 2020, you sought to sabotage Joe Biden’s campaign by trying to publicize the sensitive diary of his daughter, Ashley, as she battled drug addiction, the Times reports.

From the New York Times report:

Mr. Walczak, a former nursing home executive who had pleaded guilty to tax crimes days after the 2024 election, submitted a pardon application to President Trump around Inauguration Day. The application focused not solely on Mr. Walczak’s offenses but also on the political activity of his mother, Elizabeth Fago.

Ms. Fago had raised millions of dollars for Mr. Trump’s campaigns and those of other Republicans, the application said. It also highlighted her connections to an effort to sabotage Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s 2020 campaign by publicizing the addiction diary of his daughter Ashley Biden — an episode that drew law enforcement scrutiny.

Mr. Walczak’s pardon application argued that his criminal prosecution was motivated more by his mother’s efforts for Mr. Trump than by his admitted use of money earmarked for employees’ taxes to fund an extravagant lifestyle. ...

By 2011, prosecutors said, Mr. Walczak had stopped paying employment taxes [for his and his mother’s nursing home business].

Between 2016 and 2019, they said, he withheld more than $10 million from the paychecks of the nurses, doctors and others who worked at his facilities under the pretext of using it for their Social Security, Medicare and federal income taxes. Instead, he used some of the money to buy a $2 million yacht and to pay for travel and purchases at high-end retailers, including Bergdorf Goodman and Cartier, prosecutors said.

Walczak’s stiff sentence had been handed down two weeks ago by a judge who had declared that there “is not a get-out-of-jail-free card” for the rich.

Silly, silly judge. Has he not heard about the Trump administration, which has handed out pardons to criminals like candy to trick-or-treaters on Halloween?

In a chat with the Times, Fago’s son, Joey, shrugged off his mother’s connection to the diary saga.

“There was like hundreds of pardons,” he said. “I’m sure there’s plenty of other people you can write about.”