Posted on 12/03/2024 6:33:08 AM PST by Heartlander
President Joe Biden didn’t pardon Hunter because he’s a loving father who thinks his drug addict son was treated unfairly by the Justice Department. He pardoned Hunter to help cover up his own crimes, just as he’ll likely pardon other members of his family before he leaves office in January. He’s trying to protect himself, and this is one of the only ways he has left to do it.
After all, President Biden is the one at the center of the influence-peddling and bribery schemes that Hunter ran while Biden was vice president. Joe, not Hunter, was the one being bribed. It was his influence, not Hunter’s, that was being purchased by Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese businessmen, both during and after Biden was vice president. There’s no Biden family business without “the big guy.” Focusing on Hunter’s crimes, and his pardon, is a distraction from the far more serious crimes his father committed.
Even Hunter’s prosecution wasn’t really about him or his misdeeds. The tax and gun charges were about protecting him from being indicted for more serious charges that would have implicated the president and forced him to answer questions about his involvement in Hunter’s overseas business deals. That’s why Special Counsel David Weiss never indicted the younger Biden for failing to register as a foreign agent, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on that and other serious crimes, and then trying to engineer a sweetheart plea deal that would have granted him blanket immunity — immunity he’s now gotten from his father in the form of a pardon that covers a jaw-dropping eleven years.
Why did Weiss do this? Because Hunter’s real tax crimes stem from failing to disclose the tens of millions he and his family raked in from the Biden family’s overseas influence-peddling operations in Ukraine and China. Weiss scrupulously avoided any investigation into those business dealings, and the tax fraud that resulted from them, because such an investigation would have obviously implicated President Biden.
Indeed, Hunter would have escaped any charges at all if the IRS whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and David Shapley hadn’t come forward. Weiss only indicted Hunter after Ziegler and Shapley revealed that federal prosecutors in Washington and California had refused to bring charges despite ample evidence of crimes. So far from Biden’s claim that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Hunter received special treatment from Biden’s DOJ.
As Margot Cleveland noted in these pages on Monday, “the whistleblowers’ testimony established that Hunter Biden wasn’t unjustly targeted, but instead received unfair preferential treatment: The DOJ refused to authorize a search at his father’s house because of ‘appearances,’ witnesses were tipped to the FBI’s impending questioning of them, federal prosecutors allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most serious criminal charges, and the DOJ entered into a sweetheart plea agreement calling for no felony charges pursuant to a deferral agreement that was so unusual, the federal judge asked for briefing on the propriety of the deal.”
Hunter’s guilty plea on felony tax charges suggests that a presidential pardon from his father was part of the plan once Weiss’s hand was forced by the whistleblowers, both of whom have said it was clear that Joe Biden was implicated in Hunter’s overseas business dealings, that he was “the big guy” mentioned in Hunter’s emails. The pardon, which extends back to January 2014 — far outside the purview of the straightforward tax and gun cases brought against Hunter — serves not just to keep Hunter out of prison but also to end the possibility that his influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine and elsewhere will ever be properly investigated.
Keep in mind, too, that getting to the bottom of the Biden family business in Ukraine was what then-President Trump was trying to do in 2019 when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to look into Hunter’s business arrangement with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that was paying him an $83,000 monthly salary (despite his lack of experience in the energy sector). Trump understandably wanted to know more about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, which Biden himself bragged about after threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor was fired.
For that, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats impeached Trump. Put another way, the Democrats impeached Trump for wanting to investigate the alleged crimes for which Biden just pardoned Hunter.
Pelosi would probably not have gone to such lengths simply to protect Hunter. No, the real subject at the heart of all this—the impeachment, the slow-walked investigation of Hunter, the lesser criminal charges brought against him, the thwarted plea deal, and finally the pardon—was Joe Biden. All of this has been to protect him. His son has just been collateral damage in that effort.
In the end, the president might keep his son and other family members out of jail with last-minute pardons, but once the truth comes out, as it inevitably will, Biden will likely go down in history as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history.
The whole Xiden family is nothing but a pack of degenerates and traitors.
Bears repeating in large font.
It has been suggested, but not confirmed, thst hunter threatened to release a tell all book if he wasn’t pardoned
“Over Thanksgiving, Hunter told his father about a book he was writing that would go public with everything. Days later, his father signed a blanket pardon – per WH official,” claimed Jack Posobiec, who is close to Trump’s inner circle.”
Bingo! Da “Big Guy” made a lot of money.
True. Biden better pardon Wray and Garland as well. They were willing accomplices in the crimes father and son committed. They should be investigated when Bondi takes office.
Oh that is rich.
A son blackmailing his father.
I thought nobody effed with a Biden. Except another Biden.
Like I mentioned, i haven’t seen it confirmed anywhere, but Jack isn’t known for spreading false narratives.
I’m not buying it or other stories. I think he was always going to do it FR predicted it months ago (but on his last day as pResident).
‘Perk’ of the job and he’s unaccountable anyway!
I trust Posobiec. He is bona fide.
It was either pardon the perv of have him killed. He was the link to Joe’s money laundering and sex trafficking. Without that link — nothing can be done to protect BeijingBiden’s victims.
Not only is Biden the worse president ever (forever), he is the most corrupt president.
I’ll be soo glad to get rid of the man
Biden’s blanket pardon of Hunter should be challenged.
Joe Biden is Catholic, but he’s not an ordained Catholic priest and he cannot absolve his son for all the crimes he ever committed.
The presidential pardon is like any other legal proceeding, and must state specifically what crimes Hunter is being pardoned for, like the charges already filed against him.
I think this pardon could be successfully challenged, and would have to go to the SCOTUS.
Presidential pardon powers are broad and absolute, but I don’t think a person can be pardoned for a crime for which they have not been charged.
Of course, I could be wrong……
Karma. The mainstream media should have done their job and investigated this whole story when the Comer committee was investigating it in 2023. Instead, the media ignored the committee’s findings, and circled the wagons around Joe Biden. If the media had covered the story in depth, Biden would have had to drop out of the Presidential race. A more electable candidate such as Shapiro or Kelly would have won the nomination.
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It’s mentioned in the article.
Joe Biden’s corruption starting under Obama selling influence in Ukraine has brought us to where we are today, on the brink of World War Three. Amazing, that one person’s greed has influenced millions of lives.
Obama has to take a lot of responsibility for this. He had to know FJB & Son were up to no good in 2014 and yet he did nothing. If a CEO let his employees steal from the company he’d be at least fired. Even worse - Obama campaigned for FJB for POTUS obviously knowing what an incompetent corrupt shit he is and what a degenerate the son is - remember Malia’s credit card used for cutting cocaine as shown on Hunter’s laptop? What father wouldn’t want to take out Hunter after that?
This whole thing also really needs to include the whole rat party - and some RINOS as well - for allowing this to go on, It wasn’t just Joe and Hunter who were complicit.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hunter-biden-guilty-verdict-tax-evasion-trial/
Biden is scheduled to be sentenced in November in the gun case.
They’re just Un-American.
the whole point of the gun charge
was to slip in immunity in the plea deal
but they got caught
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