Despite the overwhelming outrage from voters across the political spectrum at President Joe Biden’s public implosion during his first 2024 presidential debate against former President Donald Trump, Democrats are legally and practically stuck with their incumbent, which is likely by design. The president, who would require only a simple majority of the party delegates to secure the nomination, has already earned 99% of those delegates thanks to a primary season that involves canceled state elections and a top-down media blackout of possible primary challengers.

Even if the party secretly planned to oust Biden after he received the nomination, when the Democratic National Committee has more legal sway over delegates, the $180 million war chest raised by Biden could only go to one other person in the country: Vice President Kamala Harris who polls as poorly as he does.

Even so, the Biden family syndicate is understandably in crisis mode. Thanks to its powerful and connected patriarch, the Biden family name has been the meal ticket for most of Biden’s siblings, all his surviving children, and six of his seven grandchildren.

“One of the strongest voices imploring Mr. Biden to resist pressure to drop out was his son Hunter Biden, whom the president has long leaned on for advice, said one of the people informed about the discussions, who, like others, spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal deliberations,” the New York Times reported. “Hunter Biden wants Americans to see the version of his father that he knows — scrappy and in command of the facts — rather than the stumbling, aging president Americans saw on Thursday night.”

More than any other family member, Hunter Biden has the most perverse incentives to push his octogenarian patron into a second term in the presidency. Hunter Biden has already been convicted on three counts of federal gun crimes, and he heads to a second trial over criminal charges related to his tax evasion. Hunter Biden is banking on a pardon and the persisting power of the Biden moniker to keep any further investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking or foreign agent registration crimes during his overseas influence peddling and solicitation of prostitution.

But perverse incentives aside, the real revelation in the outlet’s report is that the leader of the free world is relying on the advice, not of the Obamas, faith leaders, or medical professionals, but rather a literal crack addict who:

• Is a convicted felon because his sister-in-law, with whom he cheated on his wife, threw out the firearm he illegally purchased in a public dumpster
• Owes millions in alimony and child support to the various mothers of his children
• Has never met one of his five children

The first point more or less speaks for itself. The indigo-blue jury pool of likely lifelong Joe Biden voters unanimously convicted Hunter Biden of three gun felonies after his various mistresses confirmed he was actively using crack at the time he illegally purchased the gun in question.

While Hunter Biden’s lawyer and sugar daddy, Kevin Morris, has paid back millions Hunter Biden owed to the IRS. The first son’s financial obligations to the women he used and discarded are still outstanding. Hunter Biden was famously taken to court by ex-paramour Lunden Roberts to prove his paternity of daughter Navy Joan, after which he retaliated by blocking the little girl from using the Biden moniker and reducing his child support payments to an undisclosed amount. To this day, Hunter Biden still reportedly owes Kathleen Buhle, his first wife of a quarter-century and mother to his three eldest children, nearly $3 million in court-ordered alimony.

Roberts, whose tell-all about her relationship with Hunter Biden hits bookshelves the week of the Democratic National Convention, has revealed that Navy Joan has never met her father in person, let alone the paternal grandparents who pride themselves as patriarch and matriarch of a devoutly Catholic dynasty.

Joe Biden can and should shoot a text to former President Barack Obama or someone who has actually won an election before, but his crack addict, deadbeat father, criminal of a son is probably better off seen rather than heard.