Note that lawyers never want to antagonize prosecutors or judges. I was strongly warned against pointing out the clear political bias in my own fake defamation case -- if I said anything publicly about my Obama-appointed DEI judge, he would hold it against me and throw even more bias against me.
And yet Hunter Biden went scorched earth against his accusers and prosecutors and the judge who threw out the corrupt amnesty-for-all-crimes plea deals he'd worked out with his leftwing, Biden-friendly prosecutors.
Why would he do that?
Because, Turley surmises, he got the all-clear from Joe to do it. Either Hunter's scorched-earth tactics would work and the DOJ would offer him something like a deal to do 40 hours of community service in exchange for copping to a trivial charge, or, if this burn-it-all down strategy failed to get the Biden Crime Family out of jail, Joe would just pardon him.
It's the only explanation that makes sense. Hunter always knew he had daddy's "pocket pardon" waiting for him. There was no risk in attacking his judges and prosecutors as biased Trump partisans.
The most shocking aspect of President Biden pardoning his own son, Hunter, may be that it was not in the least shocking, given the history of the Biden family. This abuse of the pardon power was widely anticipated even by his allies as the president repeatedly denied that he would ever do such a thing as he ran for reelection. Indeed, it may be the single most premeditated unethical act in political history.
However, it may not achieve what President Biden most hopes for: a clean slate for his son and himself in this massive corruption scandal.
Roughly two years ago, I wrote about how Biden might suddenly withdraw from the presidential race in 2024 and pardon his son as a lame-duck president. "The pardon-and-apology approach might appeal to Biden not only as an effort to convert vice into virtue but to justify his withdrawal from the election as a selfless act," I wrote.
I further noted: "Everyone in Washington would win -- except, of course, the public: The Bidens would keep alleged millions in influence-peddling profits; Hunter would not even have to pay his full taxes; members of Congress and the media could avoid taking responsibility for burying the reports of corruption."
I wrote about the pardon option repeatedly because none of Hunter's bizarre (and ultimately unsuccessful) criminal defenses made sense unless he felt confident that his father would pardon him in the end. Hunter's taunting Congress with open contempt of a subpoena and his ridiculous defenses in court were not the actions of someone who feared consequences from these investigations. They were the actions of someone with a pocket pardon.
NBC is reporting that Hunter's pardon was being discussed in the White House for a long time, even as Biden and his staff were steadfastly denying that he would issue a pardon. As with his years of denying knowledge of Hunter's business dealings and meeting his clients, Biden simply lied over and over again to the public.
The eventual pardon restored what was a sweetheart deal reached with Special Counsel David Weiss that would have given Hunter immunity to the immediate charges and any unnamed criminal charges. It collapsed in court when Judge Maryellen Noreika expressed shock at such a deal and asked the prosecutor if he had ever seen such a deal offered to any other defendant. He admitted that he had not.
Now, President Biden has recreated an even more sweeping immunity grant through his own powers by pardoning his son not only for the crimes of which he was convicted, but of any crimes committed between Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 1, 2024.
Think on that. It would cover anything from perjury to murder.
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In a final show of contempt for the American people, President Biden waited until a Sunday before an international trip to commit this unethical act. He brushed over his past lies by saying that "From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making, and I kept my word." What he actually said, over and over again, was that he would never pardon his son.
That's an important point: Biden is claiming he "honored his promise" of not interfering in the DOJ's decision-making.
But that's not what he promised. He promised he would not pardon Hunter, period, full stop, no asterisks.
He's a corrupt liar and I can't wait until he dies a broken, hated man.
Short of such continued investigation, the Bidens will have achieved something that would have made John Gotti blush. They were able to pull in millions of alleged influence-peddling proceeds. Hunter was showered with gifts and benefits, from a diamond to a luxury sports car. Various Biden family members reportedly received money from the operation. President Biden was himself accused of knowledge and possible benefits from the influence peddling. He will also be protected by this official act.
This is why I once wrote that the Bidens are the GOATs of influence peddling. While influence peddling is the most common form of corruption in Washington, this city has never seen the likes of the Bidens. The only thing greater than their appetite was their sheer audacity.
In this statement on the pardon before fleeing the jurisdiction for a foreign trip, President Biden notably stated that "in trying to break Hunter, they've tried to break me." Indeed, this corruption scandal is as much about the president as it is about his son. And, as the president previously declared, "No one f--- with a Biden."
The leftwing Democrat media pretended for years that Joe Biden's mental fitness was perfect and that any video showing otherwise was a cheapfake. Then, when their lies were exposed, they suddenly all pretended that they had merely been conned by smooth-talking Joe Biden, the Cicero of Scranton.
Chuck Todd is now likewise pretending he really believed Joe Biden when he said he wouldn't pardon the son who was putting aside 10% of his dirty foreign money for him.
He wasn't just lying in service of the Great Marxist Cause, you see.
He was deceived! He is guilty of nothing more than having a trusting heart!
Question the media will never answer: How do you defend this level of political bias, when you cannot even conceive, when you cannot even imagine, that a Democrat politician might be -- get this! -- lying about a criminal investigation implicating him?
How can you claim you are nonpartisan "truth seekers" when you have such huge reservoirs of child-like faith in Democrat politicians, which literally nothing can shake?
Until they're about to exit office, of course -- then suddenly you realize you were played all along.