President Joe Biden is right about one thing. Hunter Biden has always been “treated differently.”
If Hunter had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence-peddling or launder millions through his “art” or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high school without any real consequences.
If Hunter’s last name weren’t “Biden,” special counsel David Weiss would never have let him get away with failing to register as a foreign agent or avoid paying millions in taxes that flowed from his foreign arrangements. If your name isn’t Biden, don’t try writing off your hookers and crack as tax deductions.
If Hunter had been treated like anyone else, the Justice Department wouldn’t have tried to give him blanket immunity not only on gun and tax charges but on a slew of uninvestigated potential offenses, including bribery and corruption.
If it hadn’t been for a principled judge named Maryellen Noreika, asking the government’s so-called prosecutors if they could provide a single precedent in which immunity was offered to a person for “crimes in a different case” (they could not), Hunter Biden would have walked last year. The DOJ was trying to pardon Hunter Biden long before Donald Trump won the presidency.
Then again, if it weren’t for the congressional testimony of Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, it’s highly unlikely Hunter Biden would have ever been charged even with those two piddling misdemeanor counts.
Because for four years, Merrick Garland and the DOJ acted as the Praetorian Guard of the Biden crime syndicate, doing everything possible to keep Hunter Biden out of a courtroom and then dragging their feet to ensure that the statute of limitations on the most serious potential crimes ran out.
Yes, Joe Biden lied on numerous occasions about never having discussed the family business with his son. Joe Biden also lied when he told the country he would never pardon his son. But the pardon letter itself is also a lie.
Like the president, many media outlets framed Joe Biden’s pardon as shielding Hunter Biden from specific gun and tax charges when it is a pardon for all federal crimes committed over the past decade, which includes the times Joe Biden was the vice president and president.
Any genuine investigation into the family’s $17 million foreign influence-peddling business would necessitate deposing the president of the United States and compelling him to answer numerous difficult queries about his connections to disreputable authoritarian regimes. Being a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” will only get you so far.
Hunter Biden’s laptop, despite censorious efforts of the press and social media platforms, was real and spectacular. It was filled with messages referencing his father’s role in securing the money and taking cuts from the business, not to mention the witnesses who said that the “Big Guy” had a part in that outfit or the checks referring to Joe Biden.
If Hunter Biden hadn’t been treated differently by the government, he would have had to answer for the 20-plus shell companies he helped set up with his uncle James Biden.
Indeed, the pardon’s decade-plus time frame is tremendously convenient, considering it coincides with Hunter Biden first pulling in $50,000-$83,000 per month as a board member of Burisma in 2014, just as his father was forging policy in that country for the Obama administration.
The pardon extends to 2015, when Hunter Biden received emails from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet with Joe Biden when the latter was vice president.
It extends to 2017, when we have an email proposing an equity breakdown of a venture with Chicom energy concerns, which included the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” It is the same year Hunter Biden threatened his Chinese partner Raymond Zhao with the words, “I am sitting here with my father.” Even the Obama administration was worried about Biden Inc.
The pardon also extends to 2019, when Hunter Biden received two wire transfers totaling $260,000 from Beijing with the president’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address. The “perception of access” can be quite lucrative.
As always, many of the president’s defenders leaned into emotional appeals regarding the older Biden. Any loving father would have pardoned his once-addicted son – a privileged, middle-aged, Yale-educated lawyer and international lobbyist who is constantly being portrayed as a child. One could argue that a good father would never have enabled his drug-addicted son to engage in influence trading. But what is certain is that a patriot would never have put the country or his family in this position.
David Harsanyi is a senior writer at the Washington Examiner. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books – the most recent, “The Rise of Blue Anon,” available now. His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on X @davidharsanyi.
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I don’t think we know half of what really went on behind the closed doors during not only his administration . There are quite few who got away with it and are still laughing all the way to the bank. Trump threw the monkey wrench into the game and became the enemy number one.Biden should pardon him and all the Jan.6th “insurgents”. Instead he concentrates on crooks. Birds of the feather…
No matter what the pardon covers, they’ll get theirs. We may not be around to witness it, but this will all eventually catch up with Biden Inc. It’s just knowing that you can’t be this corrupt, continue to profit off the deception, advocate for the slaughter of millions of babies, lay in bed with all the other pigs while rolling in their money and then simply attend mass for the cameras and receive absolution. God knows our hearts.
This type of JUSTICE will continue for the elite who think of themselves to be above the law. No matter what happens under man’s law, right or wrong, everyone will appear in front of the ALMIGHTY for final judgment — Heaven or Hell for eternity. The only ones that will escape this final judgement are those who will be at the BEMA in front of Lord Jesus as they receive their rewards in Heaven.
Great article. Keep letting the crooks and subversive Progressive-Socialists get away with their lies & actions and they’ll keep doing it, as we’ve seen.
I’m afraid when Trump takes office, he’ll not criminally prosecute those who definitely need to be held to account, like Fauci and Garland, for example.
Instead of pardons, Biden should give half sentences of hard farm labor to replace illegals. History will at least credit him with one good act.
When do you think “American Greed” will air its ten part series on the Biden crime family?
I can’t imagine why this family’s reputation has been overlooked by every democrat politician, every elected official, every legal democrat/rino voter and entertainer, like Whoopee Goldberg, Ellen the transgender, Barbra Streisand(?), the girls of the VIEW, almost the entire 2nd amendment protected NEWS MEDIA which should have had a brain cell or two in the NEWS ROOM, but obviously no one looked for it, and still do not.
So, when is Wray going to be fired and charged?
I’d love to tell I’m surprised, but I’m not
That’s what you get when you’ve someone who talks out of both sides of his mouth
This man wouldn’t know the truth if was in front of him. Unfortunately there’s more out there just like him. Just remember we’re tough then any of theses clowns out there
I fear it may take many years before the world will know the depth of corruption of Joe Biden and the Biden Crime Syndicate.
By then Joe will most likely be dead and his crime syndicate will haves moved on to other forms of financial enrichment. The truly legacy of Joseph Biden will be that he was a totally corrupt, vile and evil person.
The U.S. will never be a real Constitutional Republic until its people rid America of all leftist ideologies and return to real law and order according to our Constitution. Stop all immigration for several years, seal all American borders, fix our cities, put political criminals
Most Americans just want to feed their families and live a nice quiet life and the Republican Party was for that until recently. Now the MAGA movement has hijacked the Republican Party and I really don’t know what they want but it isn’t a nice quiet life for me. I want a safe place to live with low taxes. Hunter Biden is a sad case but I couldn’t care less if he’s in jail or not, yet there’s a fixation on him. I have voted for Trump three times in the general now and am not at all excited about his constant drama. Trump never got my primary vote. Worse he wants tariffs which are nothing more than taxes. I don’t want high taxes and never have and never will.
The Democratic Party has been hijacked too by the squad and other so called progressive socialists, but I have been a lifelong member of the Republican Party and I am so disgusted now. I will still vote Republican but don’t feel I have a home.