Posted on 05/11/2023 7:24:17 PM PDT by bitt
What will President Biden do if his son is indicted by the federal prosecutor in Delaware? That’s one of three questions looming over U.S. Attorney David Weiss’ fateful choice. The second is whether the indictment will go after a larger, coordinated family scheme of influence peddling or confine itself to smaller, tightly-confined issues like lying to get a gun permit and not registering as a foreign lobbyist. The third is whether Attorney General Merrick Garland will approve Weiss’ proposed charges. Significant political calculations follow from those decisions.
It’s easy enough to answer what Garland will do. He has little choice but to approve any charges Weiss proposes after the government’s multi-year investigation. Anything else would look shady, a far cry from the neutral, apolitical justice Garland’s department is charged with dispensing. Burying the charges, after Garland’s refusal to appoint a special counsel, would embroil his department in its nastiest controversy since John Mitchell befouled it under President Nixon.
Assuming the federal attorney proposes felony charges and Garland approves them, Joe Biden faces the toughest choice of his political life.
The president’s dilemma is why it’s so interesting to follow recent speculation by Miranda Devine, a reporter and columnist for the New York Post. She’s the most informed journalist on the Hunter Biden story. Her paper broke the news about the emails on Hunter’s laptop, three weeks before the 2020 election, and Devine has done the best follow-up reporting. To bury that story before the election took the combined, Herculean efforts of the legacy media, social media giants, and former CIA officials. Their success helped elect Biden. But the “little story that could” just keeps chugging along, mostly because the corruption is so extensive, so rich for investigation. Criminal charges now seem likely, not that the mainstream media has shown much interest.
Now, Devine is speculating that Biden is setting the stage to pardon Hunter, framing it as the actions of a loving father who backs his troubled child. “My son has done nothing wrong,” Biden told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle in a rare one-on-one interview. “I trust him. I have faith in him, and it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.”
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I hope Hunter is indicted! Lock him up!
“If Hunter Biden Is Indicted” They’ll indict Trump the same day, and the next day.
Federal crime? Joe Biden can pardon it and the rest of the family. Whatchagonna do about it?
Oh, that’s adorable. This writer seems to think Merrick Garland is the Attorney General, and not the Biden Crime Family’s consigliere. That sort of simple-minded childlike ignorant innocence is just so sweet.
Yeah, one could read this as satire…
“It’s easy enough to answer what Garland will do. He has little choice but to approve any charges Weiss proposes after the government’s multi-year investigation. Anything else would look shady…”
Daddy might want him indicted now...while he can pardon him.
Not relevant IMHO.
Have the state of Delaware do it as well.
Takes the old fool out of the equation.
He’s a ultra far-left turd roller. They aren’t going to do anything to him as long as the turd rollers in the “media” have his ass.
The administration will use it as an excuse to refuse Congress or the press any information on Hunter. Then the DO”J” will either screw up the case or slow walk it until after the 2024 election and a pardon
IS IT LEGAL TO GRANT A PARDON-—BEFORE A CONVICTION???
Would it be a conflict of interest since more than Hunter are involved in all the money transfers???
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1) there is no surge of news coverage on this. So it can’t happen.
2) the lofty pinnacle of the national media, the New York Times, has said nothing was wrong.
3) the 51% leftist American people are degenerate sheep who want a socialist government if it means more entitlement money to them.
4) Joe and Hunter, along with Hillary and Schumer can comment on Trump and his family who will go to prison. God forbid.
5) My take on this: 🤬
IS IT LEGAL TO GRANT A PARDON-—BEFORE A CONVICTION???
YES. For example, see Ford pardon of Nixon, for whatever crimes he may have committed.
https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/speeches/740061.asp
Now, THEREFORE, I, GERALD R. FORD, President of the United States, pursuant to the pardon power conferred upon me by Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free, and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Richard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9,1974.
Lavrenti Garland will never allow Hunter to be indicted for anything more serious than running a red light.
I agree. Garland will be glad to take the heat for inaction than take the heat for bringing down FJB.
This speculation is pointless because NONE in that crime family will be indicted.
This will all be irrelevant as PINO Drooling Spoon is degrading quickly and right before our eyes. It won’t be a year before he is mouth agape and mostly immobile like Captain Pike. I predict a very public catastrophe and Dems panicking and pointing fingers at each other, playing the hindsight 20/20 game.
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