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Posted on 12/04/2024 1:51:35 AM PST by Libloather
resident Joe Biden's extraordinarily broad pardon of his son may have saved Hunter from a prison sentence, but it might actually mark the beginning of worse legal troubles for the Biden clan.
By pre-emptively shielding Hunter from the consequences of any alleged criminal conduct dating back eleven years, the President leaves his son open to virtually unlimited questioning in future Congressional, civil or even criminal investigations.
That's because Hunter Biden can no longer claim the privilege of the Fifth Amendment – a Constitutional right that protects people from offering testimony that may incriminate them.
Since Hunter is now effectively immune from federal prosecution, he cannot plausibly claim that testimony could constitute self-incrimination.
That makes Hunter a potential key witness for years to come.
Biden's blanket pardon is, in fact, a gift to President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, should she ever choose to look into allegations that the Biden family has corruptly profited off foreign influence peddling for decades.
One Republican-led House committee has estimated that the Bidens and their business associates have raked in more than $27 million in overseas business deals in recent years. However, not a single Biden family member has ever registered as a 'foreign agent' as may be required by law.
That seems like fertile ground for investigation.
It's true that prosecutions of those who fail to report their work for foreign governments have been rare. But that's changed in recent years.
In July, Senator Bob Menendez was convicted for, among other charges, failing to declare himself as a foreign agent for Egypt.
On the first day of the new administration, Bondi, a former Florida AG, will be free to convene a grand jury and start her investigations.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
GO FOR THEIR THROATS, PAM!!
Years of substance abuse will have affected his memory.
Can we release the Kraken now?
Every question Hunter ever gets will be answered with,”I don’t recall as you are aware I was a crack addict”.
More like a catastrophe for the entire Party as the Biden family will take the Party down with them. They had help and didn’t act alone.
Biden has a month and a half to pardon anyone who could be damaged by what Hunter might have to testify about, including Joe himself. Joe’s exit strategy is going to get really sleazy.
Joe’s exit strategy is going to get really sleazy.......
Well he’s consistent.....if nothing else.
Biden entered politics as a sleaze, conducted himself for
50 years as a sleaze, so its no big surprise he exits as a sleaze.
Hunter may want to hit the crack hard now so that he can be declared medically incompetent to appear at any Congressional investigation.
Better safe than sorry.
Lol.
Thanks for posting. Others have posted similar articles. But the fact that Dershowitz says it adds credence to the argument.
It seems that most of these articles are somewhat assumptive that Congress would be issuing subpoenas for Hunter. I am skeptical that Congress has the guts. So, are there any other government agencies, or officials, not associated with Congress, with subpoena power who might be interested in Hunter’s testimony? Any brave Attorneys general, or District Attorneys in the states, cities, or counties who have issues with Hunter’s conduct which they want answered? If not, expect Congress to “move on.” He and his family have nothing to worry about.
She damn well better look into it.
He can lie under oath and there is nothing they can do about it since he is lying about crimes during the “protected period”
There is only one problem.
The pardon does not nullify his right to decline to testify against himself.
The 5th Amendment is still his right which he can invoke at any time.
In 2018, then Cong Schiff tells then-CNN host Don Lemon that if then-president Trump were to pardon one of his sons, he could be found guilty of obstruction of justice.
“In the event that the president pardons anyone in an investigation in which the president is a witness, the subject, or the target, those investigative files would all be turned over to the Congress. The Congress ought to know whether the president is using the pardon power to obstruct justice. The American people have a right to know,” Schiff said, WRT legislation he filed to rein in Trump’s ability to pardon family members.
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 infinitun, ad nauseaum.
Biden pardoned Hunter of all crimes, known or unknown, from January 1, 2014.
Not coincidentally, 2014 was the year Hunter started “working” as a million dollar a year board member at Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company, Burisma’s first outside board member.
Hunter’s corrupt global influence-peddling of his father was well known. When foreign figures were giving him millions of dollars, Hunter admits to breaking the law, that he was a crack addict and alcoholic, writing in his book that “Drinking a quart of vodka a day by yourself in a room is absolutely, completely debilitating” as was “smoking crack around the clock.”
Yet Hunter was not some hapless junkie in Times Square snatching purses to feed his addiction.
<><>he is the son of the most powerful man on the globe
<><>he was flying around the world free, mooching off taxpayers on dad’s plane, AF Two,
<><>he has a tax-funded Secret Service detail
<><>he was vacuuming up millions selling dad’s influence
<><>he was allegedly distributing the money to various Biden family members
<><>he was organizing a labyrinth of shell companies and LLC money laundries
<><>he was selling out America left and right.
<><>he was undermining American families’ safety and security.
Same as:
“more than $27 million in overseas business deals in recent years”
Nothing, compared to the kickbacks from the billions sent to Ukraine, the trillion sent via the Inflation Reduction Act, etc.
This grifter is not good for much, but he knows how to get the money.
I wondered that myself. Then I thought about state criminal charges. Could Hunter plead the 5th stating that testifying could incriminate himself and leave him open to criminal charges being brought by various state criminal courts? I’m not sure exactly what the charges would be, but I guess it’s possible (Bragg did it against Trump).
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