Posted on 12/27/2024 6:47:50 AM PST by Red Badger
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Victor Davis Hanson said Thursday on his podcast that he believes all of President Joe Biden’s family members will be next in line to receive pardons.
Since Biden’s announcement on Dec. 1 that he would pardon his son Hunter Biden of his criminal charges, the president has faced pushback over the decision, after adamantly telling the press he would not do so. On “The Victor Davis Hanson Show,” Hanson said he believes Biden has been pardoning people based on what benefits the family and what provokes public outrage.
“It works like this. He just said, ‘I’m going to pardon people, and I have two criteria for pardoning them. Whatever they can do for the Biden family or the larger friend and associate of the Biden consortium, I’ll do it,” Hanson said. “And whatever makes people angry, because I’m going to be a puny little Samson that’s going to pull down the temple when I go out. Give me as much chaos and nihilism as I can. Make it symbolic and the more egregious the pardon, the better.'”
“Wait till we get to the last 48 hours, Jack. I expect Ashley Biden, I expect Jim Biden, all of them get pardons. They all get pardons,” Hanson added. “They know they’re going to get pardons, because if they don’t get pardons, when you write a check and you say repayment, $250,000, somebody in an honest DOJ, if the statute of limitations is not over, is going to say, ‘Wait a minute, you transferred $250,000 to your brother? Did you pay gift tax on it? Did you pay income tax? Where did you get the money?'”
In March 2024, South Florida investigators revealed that, as part of a criminal probe, they examined transactions linked to Jim Biden, one of Biden’s brothers.
The investigation focused on a business deal and loans involving Americore, a failed healthcare company where Jim Biden worked as a consultant. In 2018, Americore paid Jim Biden an estimated $600,000, labeled as work compensation and loan arrangements. Investigators, however, believe that either Jim Biden or his wife transferred $200,000 to Joe Biden on the same day one of the Americore payments was made to Jim Biden in 2018, according to Politico.
Hanson then listed questions the Department of Justice could potentially ask Jim Biden, before saying that anyone connected to the president who could reveal alleged criminal activity might be next in line for a pardon.
“‘Can you show me the loan document where he loaned you the $250,000? Did he charge interest? If he didn’t charge interest, it was a gift. Did he pay gift tax on it?’ So they’re going to ask a lot of questions,” Hanson said.
“So I think they’re going to give him one of these unusual, historically rare pardons that they’re going to pardon all the Biden’s for anything they may have done from 2014 when he got on his plane and sold stuff, to their foreign interest [and] until the present. Anything that’s uncovered,” Hanson said. “That’s his attitude.”
Although Hunter Biden was pardoned for charges related to knowingly possessing a gun while addicted to drugs and making false statements on a purchase document, he was also found to have received thousands in wire transfers from Chinese business associates.
In September 2023, the House Oversight Committee revealed that Hunter Biden was paid $10,000 by Chinese business associate Wang Xin on July 26, 2019, and $250,000 by Jonathan Li on Aug. 2, 2019, with President Biden’s Delaware home address listed as the beneficiary for both wires. In May 2024, documents from the House Ways and Means Committee appeared to show Hunter Biden had allegedly lied to Congress on multiple occasions under oath during his testimony.
While it is unclear if Biden plans to pardon anyone else, the president granted clemency on Dec. 12 to nearly 1,500 inmates placed in home confinement. He also pardoned 39 convicted criminals.
I bet Pedo Pete fergits about Hussein. Bronco Bama knew all about the chicom bribes.
Yes, the info is there for us to find like a Treasure Hunt. All that happens now is just theater, for wider audiences.
Most people understand that Biden is a vegetable. It’s true that the Constitution gives the president nearly limitless pardon powers. But his staff does not have such power. I would love to see every single pardon overturned after Jan 20. Probably won’t happen, but it ought to. Legally, it’s probably a difficult hill to climb.
They will be invited to a tv studio and taped under each seat will be a pardon!
Well nigh impossible.
We actually need a Constitutional Amendment to limit the pardoning power to convicted crimes only, no ‘blanket pardons, no ‘family pardons’ and no ‘future’ crimes.................
“It works like this. He just said, ‘I’m going to pardon people, and I have two criteria for pardoning them. Whatever they can do for the Biden family or the larger friend and associate of the Biden consortium, I’ll do it,” Hanson said. “And whatever makes people angry, because I’m going to be a puny little Samson that’s going to pull down the temple when I go out. Give me as much chaos and nihilism as I can. Make it symbolic and the more egregious the pardon, the better.'”
And ... I can't disagree with anything that Prof Hanson says in the interview.
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One interesting (and disturbing) thing about presidential pardons is that actual people need not be named. Mentioning a class of people is enough.
For example, in 1977 Jimmy Carter pardoned all Vietnamese-era draft evaders.
So who knows what mischief Joe Biden can do before Jan. 20, 2025?
Pardon every person who worked in the executive branch while he was in office?
Pardon every member of his extended family?
Nothing would be too outrageous for that guy.
Correct. See my post #6.............
Not until AFTER Trump does the same thing to protect his family, his friends and his MAGA people.
Yes, I agree about the need for a Constitutional amendment.
The Founders wisely put checks-and-balances into the Constitution. But then they gave presidents an unchecked, king-like pardon power.
At a minimum, Congress should be able to override a presidential pardon just as they can override a presidential veto.
That probably wouldn’t happen often. But at least there’d be hearings, and a vote. And questionable pardons would be exposed for everyone to see.
Constitutional Amendments take time, lots of time. First, it has to pass both House and Senate by large margins, no Presidential signature necessary as it goes then directly to the State Legislatures, bypassing the Governors, then each state legislature must pass or reject the Amendment, which could take years...............
Biden’s so-called Presidency was a disgrace from its very beginning, and it is ending in like fashion. He’s on his own at this point, as must be apparent to even himself in his more lucid moments, so he might as well just do whatever the hell he wants before he leaves the office. What we’re witnessing is an historic and classic Tragedy.
The no future crimes part seems like it’s already in place, no?
Can you imagine living next door to someone with that kind of immunity from prosecution?
Talk about walking around on eggshells.
Biden’s ungodly use of presidential power is a huge red
flag——this demented nincompoop is capable of anything.
Trump needs to determine if Biden put Hunter, drjill, and
the money hungry Biden Crime Family on the public payroll.....
<><>pocketing pensions, perks, stipends, bonuses, expense accounts,
<><>govt credit cards, Cadillac health and life insurance,
<><>housing subsidies, tax paid utility bills,
<><>several Social Security plans,
<><>government checks, payments, loans,
<><>no-show salaries, consultancies,
<><>billed as strategists, operations directors, R and D managers,
<><>and so on and so forth, ad infinitum, ad nauseaum.
.........he “said” he wouldn’t, yet Biden pardoned his son for federal crimes he “may” have committed over the last 11 years, those for which he had been convicted and even those he had not........
The calculated Biden had his eye on votes when six times he insisted he would not pardon Hunter.
These statements were campaign braggadacio-—— to show his so-called “reverence for law” at the same time he was viciously dragging Trump thru the courts.
Some say he’ll pardon everyone guilty of crossing the border into the U.S. illegally.
Not that they are allowed to stay per se, but they can’t be handled or prosecuted as criminals.
Biden “said” he wouldnt pardon Hunter ..... but it was a typical Biden political head fake.
Creepy Biden was still considered a “candidate” and he wanted to show his “reverence for law”.......
at the same time he was viciously dragging Trump thru a catalog of faked-up charges.
It would be awesome if the recipient of a pardon, with no known underlying crime being prosecuted, would be required to do an allocution to state why they are getting the pardon.
IOW, he can pardon every Biden voter alive, dead, or imagined for all past, future and imagined misdeeds. Hey, that’s one way to handle prison overcrowding.
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