By pardoning his son Hunter, President Biden actually pardoned himself. The investigation and prosecution of Hunter had one and only goal from its beginning to its end: to keep the investigation away from Joe Biden.
As I have previously written:
For five years, (U.S. Attorney David) Weiss and his staff cooperated and strategized with Hunter’s legal team. The New York Times came into possession of emails between the two parties showing that Weiss was willing to forgo any criminal charges. All this changed in the spring of 2023 with the testimony of IRS agents Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler. They told [Rep. James] Comer’s committee that the Justice Department prevented them from following evidence that could have led to Joe Biden, divulged sensitive information to Hunter’s attorneys, and allowed the clock to run out on some felonies.
The subsequent plea deal, whereby Hunter would plead guilty to misdemeanors and receive immunity for any other crimes, was still so favorable to Hunter that Judge Maryellen Noreika rejected it. She inquired specifically about Hunter’s possible prosecution under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA),
In August 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland gave Weiss Special Counsel status, a move Garland had long resisted. It was a rear-guard action, calculated to keep the criminal investigation from reaching President Biden. But to do so, Weiss had to conduct a real investigation and prosecution of Hunter, right up to the line, but never crossing it, of implicating the president.
President Biden today claimed that his son was “selectively” and “unfairly” prosecuted, never explaining why, is so, these events have taken so long. Virtually any other defendant would have had his or her case adjudicated by now. Weiss only pushed the case forward when he was forced to. The delays proved important because Hunter can now be pardoned by a lame-duck President who cannot be damaged politically. Joe Biden goes on:
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.
Of course, the potentially most serious of Hunter’s crimes, the failure to register as a foreign agent was not prosecuted at all. And the FARA violations were only a glimpse of a much larger conspiracy involving his father. Joe Biden is trying to get away with accepting bribes from foreign entities, among the greatest crimes ever committed by an American president.
As I also previously wrote:
..the President and his family have been on the payroll of China for many years. Even as House Republicans, led by the House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY), carefully assembled and released whatever evidence they could pry loose from banks around the world, they were dismissed by the White House and much of the media as “House Republicans.”
Hunter received millions from Chinese companies. Chinese firms may be allowed latitude to conduct economic activities, but all ultimately report to the state. A financial relationship between a Chinese entity and the family of a prominent American politician would not only be known to Communist Party intelligence services but would likely be directed by them.
Meanwhile, NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar says that Joe Biden may want to actually pardon himself:
Perhaps President Biden should pardon himself lest the new Attorney General Pam Bondi discover the cover-up by the FBI and other DOJ officials, including Merrick Garland of crimes by the Biden family.
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