Posted on 12/02/2024 4:14:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
After vowing for years that he would not pardon his son, Hunter, Joe Biden on Sunday signed a “full and unconditional pardon” for all offenses he “may have committed” between 2014 and 2024, claiming that Hunter was “singled out only because he is my son.”
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-00061-MN in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and Docket No. 2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court for the Central District of California.
Hunter Biden joined the board of the notoriously corrupt energy firm Burisma Holdings in the spring of 2014 at a reported salary of $50,000 a month, even though he had little experience in the energy sector. Almost immediately, an adviser to the board of Burisma, started emailing Hunter, asking him for “advice on how you could use your influence” on the company’s behalf.
In an unpublicized meeting about a year later, the younger Biden introduced his father—then the vice president—to Vadym Pozharskyi, a top executive at Burisma, according to emails found on his infamous laptop.
Hunter Biden was only convicted of federal gun charges and federal tax evasion charges earlier this year. The gun and tax evasion charges came only after U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected the “sweetheart” plea deal between Delaware US attorney David Weiss and the defendant’s attorneys in July 2023. Noreika had said she was concerned about the language in the diversion agreement, which included “details about not prosecuting Biden for tax crimes in the future,” amid an ongoing investigation.
In a White House statement, the outgoing lame duck claimed that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.”
Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form. Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.
The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.
No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.
The notoriously corrupt Biden, who launched his 2020 campaign on the “very fine people on both sides” Charlottesville lie, added risibly: “For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth.”
They’ll be fair-minded. Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.
Hunter was convicted in June for “lying on a federal screening form about his drug use, lying to a gun dealer and possessing the gun.” In September, he was convicted on three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses. The younger Biden was facing up to 25 years in prison for the gun violations, and another 17 years for the tax offenses.
More serious charges related to money laundering, bribery, and operating as an unregistered foreign agent of corrupt and adversarial foreign governments, all of which were tied to the Biden clan’s corrupt influence-peddling operation, were never brought against the first son.
President-Elect Donald Trump reacted to the News on Truth Social.
“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump wrote.
Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) posted on X that the Biden regime was “the most lawless administration in history.”
“Never forget: while Hunter was selling access to “the big guy,” Joe Biden’s administration sent SWAT teams to the homes of prolifers; recruited spies in Catholic parishes; treated parents as domestic terrorists; and prosecuted Trump. The most lawless administration in history,” Hawley wrote.
“I’m shocked Pres Biden pardoned his son Hunter bc he said many many times he wouldn’t & I believed him Shame on me,” Senator Chuck Grassley posted on X Sunday evening.
I am not as upset about this as some people justifiably are.
However, on the positive side, this does illustrate exactly the corruption endemic to the Democrat Party/Deep State and the Media support of them, and I don’t see that complete open admittance of and acceptance by the Left that there are two systems of justice in this country as a bad thing.
Sure, I would like to see all of them prosecuted and jailed for what they have done.
We all would.
But the silver lining is, that even the densest of detached people cannot see this for exactly the element of corruption it is.
Just because he’s been pardoned doesn’t mean his actions can’t be brought out into the sunlight.
This family needs full exposure of its grift and treason to the US. Make this POS a complete pariah.
“I would challenge the constitutionality of this kind of pardon.”
I agree. How can you pardon someone for uncharged, non-specified crimes that occurred over a 10 year period?
Hunter is just the start. He will also, during his last week in office, fully pardon his grifting brother and sister as well as himself for any crimes that they may be charged with citing on the pretext the opposition will lawfare him. The ultimate irony
“Time for Red States to practice lawfare to bleed Hunter dry financially? Let’s see how they respond to tit for their tat.”
Well, in effect, Hunter Biden has now effectively been given a license to steal at least hundreds of thousands of dollars from the federal tax coffers. You or I did 1/10th of that and got caught, at best, our lives would be hell until the amount and penalties were paid.
So, the states should just sit back and do nothing for their citizens who pay taxes, some, very heavy state taxes?
This isn’t a “lawfare” issue.
Treason shouldn’t be allowed in POTUS pardons.
Wow, really? I sure hope so.
Nixon's pardon was very broad. And on his way out the door, Bubba's attorney stepped to the mike and said Bubba would never be prosecuted for anything that occurred while in office.
But Hunter is, never was, never will be President and those cases are NOT precedence...and if Biden thinks they are...he's just doing as told.
Agree...the Pardon is only good for the charges on hand. And there's something else...he was never "sentenced". Last I heard, it's still an open case until one is sentenced. So I'm not sure the pardon is valid on its face.
Will Biden now pardon himself(his family) AND Trump in order to provide cover? He can do it in the name of “unity and putting rancor behind us”. He has used those words before while doing something underhanded to benefit himself.
Doesn’t this life long criminal and grifter have a daughter? He could pardon her to further “make history”...first first-daughter pardoned. What a pathetic criminal family.
The timing is a bit odd, too. Why so early? My suspicion is that he is getting this out of the way so he can step down and let Kamala be the 47th — the first woman Pres.
Which is a good thing, BTWay. It will cause the HilaryHag to stroke out — which will be fun to watch.
Also, Pelosi will step up to be Vice.
And, with this, we can all say : “did that”, and never again bother with a woman in charge.
Now that he has been pardoned, H can explain the pictures of his underage niece on his computer.
Biden did this so that his son and his son’s associates can’t be forced to tell any more about his fathers part in his money-laundering influence peddling schemes.
I understand how everyone is outraged, but I don’t see how anyone should be surprised. Joe Biden has *always* been corrupt. Maybe I’m a little more aware of it since I live a mere three miles from his state, but that’s the simple fact. He’s always been corrupt, and he was *always* going to pardon Hunter.
A couple of questions:
Just because he is immune from prosecution, does that mean he gets to keep the illegally gotten proceeds from his crimes?
Since he is now immune to prosecution for his crimes, does that mean that hunter can now be made to testify (under oath, in televised hearings) against the biden crime family without the benefit of the 5th amendment?
“Joe probably needs to pardon himself too.”
He still has time. It is also possible Trump will pull a Gerald Ford and pardon Joe Biden a few days after taking office.
And the entire felony Biden family indictments for the millions they took from the communist China CCP while groper Joe was VP under Obama????
Yes, but can Hunter stop breaking the law once his dad is out of the picture and can not pardon him for future crimes? I don’t think Hunter will outlive his dad by much. Good riddance is all I can say.
If the Lawfare trend continues, then it is probably going to be a necessity that every outgoing president pardon himself and cabinet members before leaving office.
From the article:
“More serious charges related to money laundering, bribery, and operating as an unregistered foreign agent of corrupt and adversarial foreign governments, all of which were tied to the Biden clan’s corrupt influence-peddling operation, were never brought against the first son.”
Charges of pedophilia also were not brought despite ample evidence on the laptop.
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