(Congress Report) – Everyone with an intact moral compass and an understanding that nobody in this country should be above the law because they have Scrooge McDuck money or are well connected is still fiery mad over President Joe Biden pardoning his son, Hunter Biden. It smacks of nepotism, but that’s not the only reason to oppose the pardon. The president promised the American people he wouldn’t use this power to bail his wayward child out of trouble for violating gun laws and tax regulations. He broke that promise.
Of course, those of us who weren’t born yesterday didn’t believe for a second that Biden would actually keep his word, but that’s not the point. He promised and then went back on it. He needs to be held accountable in some way for that action. As it turns out, by issuing the pardon, Biden himself might be in big trouble.
“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,” he went on to say in his statement on the pardon, just two sentences after he exalted “a carefully negotiated plea deal” that “unraveled in the courtroom,” he explained, saying it was because of pressure from his ‘political opponents in Congress,'” The Western Journal reported.
“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,” President Biden concluded.
Oh look. Another whopper. However, it’s all been done now so it’s too late to stop it from happening. The real question is whether or not Biden just opened himself up to potential prosecution.
“That seems like an insane question, but perhaps not so much. First, let’s look at the breadth of the pardon, which goes well beyond the federal gun and tax charges. In fact, it covers everything back to 2014 — the year when he started on the board of Burisma, quelle surprise,” the report noted.
Joe Biden’s 11-year blanket pardon of Hunter is even more expansive than the pardon Gerald Ford gave to Richard Nixon in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal. pic.twitter.com/9ThNOEGyo5
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 2, 2024
“This means all of Hunter’s foreign business dealings — including potential FARA violations and the like — are off the table for the prosecution. As you might remember, Joe was always linked to these in a very ancillary way, never playing a major part but always closer to the action than you might have liked him to be if you were one of his handlers,” it added.
Hunter Biden used Joe's VP perks to pursue deal with Carlos Slim https://t.co/Yz52bkBsxd pic.twitter.com/cC7CKvDORO
— New York Post (@nypost) July 1, 2021
The photograph above shows Joe Biden, our commander-in-chief, with the richest man in all of Mexico, who used to own the title of world’s richest at one point, with whom Hunter and many of his business buddies were pursuing deals with at that time.
“This becomes particularly problematic when you look at Hunter’s time on Burisma’s board and Joe’s own claim he got a Ukrainian prosecutor who just happened to be interested in Burisma’s corruption once upon a time fired,” the article stated.
Here we have Joe Biden bragging about how he totally manipulated the judicial system in another country and got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired
This all while that same prosecutor was investigating the company (Burisma) that just happened to be paying his son, Hunter….. pic.twitter.com/UwbNUQzIj2— Richard (@ricwe123) December 2, 2024
It continued, “Biden’s people have always maintained, of course, that the prosecutor himself was corrupt. Which might have been true — indeed, it’s likely to be, because virtually everyone in Ukrainian politics was so corrupt that the country elected an actor who played an everyman anti-corruption presidential candidate who ended up winning on a fictional TV show to be an everyman anti-corruption president of their country in real life. (To be fair, Volodymyr Zelenskyy managed to defend the country against Russian aggression admirably, if to a stalemate, even if he hasn’t quite tackled corruption just yet.)”
Here is where things could get really dicey for the president. Now that Hunter is in no danger of legal trouble, he might have to talk about all this junk he’s been caught up in, which means name dropping dear old dad and his role in the influence peddling scheme. Here’s what attorney Mike Davis with the Article III Project posted on X:
If Biden pardons someone–like, say, Hunter or Jack Smith–they can no longer invoke the Fifth Amendment's right against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress or grand juries.
If those pardoned refuse to testify, they can face new charges for criminal contempt.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) November 26, 2024
The Western Journal then explained what the Fifth Amendment really means, saying, “See, here’s the thing: With the Fifth Amendment, your right to stay silent against self-incrimination only applies if you have something you can incriminate yourself for. This is why certain witnesses are often given immunity: that immunity then forces them to say the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, or else they’re the ones breaking the law.”
The article says that this particular principle has never been applied to a presidential pardon such as this one. Granting someone immunity, when done a certain way, is used as a bargaining chip to try and get an individual to spill the tea and if they don’t do so fully they’ll be in a deeper hole than they were before.
“And various news sources are wondering just what this pardon means if the House GOP or a special counsel decides to open up an investigation. Newsweek quoted an attorney who said Hunter would absolutely be compelled to testify, the legal team at Reuters said the ‘pardon could limit his ability to invoke that [Fifth Amendment] right’ if called to testify, and an attorney who talked to NewsNation simply called the situation ‘uncharted territory,'” it disclosed.
Still, the chances of seeing Biden going to prison aren’t high. A prosecutor would probably follow in the footsteps of special counsel Robert Hur who, due to the president’s cognitive state, found he wasn’t really competent to stand trial, though he didn’t use that kind of blunt language to describe his reason for not charging him with having classified documents. So, Biden will probably get away with it.
“The difference is that Hunter’s compelled testimony would be an immediate, shock-therapy dramatization of how bad it really was — the second act of the June 27 debate in which the veil was pulled back and we all realized how thoroughly cognitively deficient the president had become. If it doesn’t end Joe in jail — or both Joe and Hunter sharing a cell, if Hunter refuses to testify or perjures himself — it will, at least, end the half-decade charade of snow-white innocence the outgoing first family has pulled on us,” the article concluded.
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