From NLPC Counsel Paul Kamenar:
President Biden‘s pardon of his son Hunter for his two criminal convictions is no surprise. Despite President Biden’s repeated pledge that he would not pardon his son for his gun conviction and serious tax crimes, NLPC has repeatedly predicted that he would do so shortly after the election, whether he won or lost. We were right.
Hunter’s claim that his prosecution was politically motivated and deserving of a pardon is laughable, considering that IRS whistleblowers testified they were blocked from searching Hunter’s laptop and investigating President Biden himself, for receiving foreign payoffs through Hunter’s questionable foreign dealings with Burisma energy company in Ukraine and millions from CEFC Chinese Energy.
Indeed, Hunter got a huge break for not being charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) despite ample evidence of FARA violations, including NLPC’s formal submission in 2020 to the Department of Justice‘s FARA unit calling on DOJ to charge Hunter with violating FARA.
Perhaps President Biden should pardon himself lest 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.
At the same time, President Trump‘s promise to pardon the January 6 protestors is also no surprise but unlike Hunter’s case, is justified since the majority of those charged and convicted were non-violent protestors exercising their First Amendment rights.
Any pardon by Trump would be in sharp contrast to the commutation that President Clinton gave to radical activist Susan Rosenberg charged with blowing up a bomb in the U.S. Capitol Building and other serious crimes, and for former Attorney General Eric Holder dropping terrorist charges against Rosenberg’s accomplice, Elizabeth Duke, who remains to this day on the FBI wanted list as a fugitive. Merrick Garland, then the Chief Judge of the D.C.Circuit, rubber-stamped that questionable dismissal of charges as NLPC uncovered.
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