Biden Lies, Hunter Flies

To absolutely nobody’s surprise, Joe Biden lied repeatedly, publicly, and emphatically, and then pardoned his son Hunter after having maintained for months that under no conditions would he do so.

Joe Biden, in his statement, said:

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted. 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.

Apparently, Joe even lied in this statement.

The judge who presided over the California tax fraud case against Hunter Biden called out the president for mischaracterizing and minimizing the charges against his son in announcing why he was pardoning him.

"The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history," U.S. District Judge Mark C. Scarsi wrote in a ruling late Tuesday.

An attorney for Hunter Biden had asked the judge to dismiss the indictment against his client in light of President Joe Biden's pardon on Sunday night, but did not initially submit a formal copy of the pardon, and instead sent a link to the president's statement saying that his son had been "selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted" and was the victim of a "miscarriage of justice."

Scarsi said the president’s “representations” in the statement accompanying the pardon “stand in tension with the case record.”

"For example, the President asserts that Mr. Biden 'was treated differently' from others 'who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions,' implying that Mr. Biden was among those individuals who untimely paid taxes due to addiction. But he is not," the judge wrote.

He noted that Hunter Biden had said he “was severely addicted to alcohol and drugs” through "May 2019.” 

"Upon pleading guilty to the charges in this case, Mr. Biden admitted that he engaged in tax evasion after this period of addiction by wrongfully deducting as business expenses items he knew were personal expenses, including luxury clothing, escort services, and his daughter’s law school tuition. And Mr. Biden admitted that he 'had sufficient funds available to him to pay some or all of his outstanding taxes when they were due,' but that he did not make payments toward his tax liabilities even 'well after he had regained his sobriety,' instead electing to 'spen[d] large sums to maintain his lifestyle' in 2020," the judge wrote.

Biden had pleaded guilty to all of the allegations against him in the California case on the eve of trial in September. Prosecutors said he had "engaged in a four-year scheme to not pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019." He then "filed false returns in February of 2020" claiming bogus business deductions "in order to evade assessment of taxes to reduce the substantial tax liabilities," which he still didn't pay, despite driving a Porsche and living in a $17,500-a-month rental house on a canal in Venice Beach, prosecutors said.

The taxes were eventually paid after federal investigators told Biden they were looking into his finances in December 2020. [https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/joe-biden/judge-hunter-biden-case-calls-presidents-pardon-statement-attempt-rewr-rcna182825]

Joe goes on,

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.   

Actually… 

President Biden blamed “political pressure” for the collapse of a plea deal for Hunter Biden, but it was the judge overseeing the case who questioned the agreement.

Hunter Biden’s plea deal did fall apart in dramatic format the last minute last year. But it did so after the judge overseeing the case at the time raised issues about its unusual construction, involving two separate agreements meant to work in tandem. That construction violated one of the basic tenets of federal guilty pleas: that any agreement not have any side deals.

That the plea agreement fell apart once it faced basic questioning from the judge was an embarrassment to both the prosecutors and the defense lawyers who negotiated it. But that is a far cry from the president’s suggestion that the deal for Hunter Biden to avoid prison time and a felony conviction collapsed because of political pressure. [https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/01/us/politics/biden-pardon-political-pressure.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare]

Ok, so that was a lie too. Joe goes on.

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. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough. 

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. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.

Does Joe really believe in the Justice System? Or are raw politics injected into the process? It was Biden’s DOJ who brought the charges and Democrat-appointed judges who convicted Hunter. And if he does believe its rigged, does he think that applies to the ridiculous lawfare against Trump, the J6ers, Bannon, Navarro, and so on?

In fact, the reason those charges were brought against Hunter was a sham from the get go.

No Republican ever cared about the BS gun charge, and the tax thing was very minor compared to the other alleged crimes Hunter committed along with Joe and the other members of the Biden crime family. Those other crimes were never brought, partly because it was Biden’s DOJ with his lapdog AG Merick Garland, and partly because, despite massive undisputed evidence, the charges are very hard to prove.

For years Joe did favours in exchange for money siphoned to his family members, who then turned around and funded Joe’s expenses. This has been reputedly going on ever since he was in Congress. He had quite the reputation as a crooked politician, in fact.

With Hunter alone, Congress has identified $24M spread around 20 shell companies from suspect foreign countries in exchange for no identifiable legitimate good or service. This includes huge payments from the corrupt ex-Mayor of Moscow, several million from China, and several millions from Ukraine. Here is an X thread with hi lights of the evidence: https://x.com/kylenabecker/status/1701988846248792318?s=61

In the case of Ukraine, the clear quid pro quo was that Joe Biden would get the prosecutor who was going after corruption at the Ukrainian Burisma Energy Company fired. Joe even publicly bragged about having done so.

Hunter was on the board of Burisma for no known reason other than influence peddling (according to Hunter himself).

On the infamous laptop, a message was identified showing the split of the distribution of profits funnelled from the Chinese Government:

H is Hunter, Jim is Jim Hunter, Joe’s brother, H is Hailey Hunter, “the big guy” is Joe Biden as testified to by Tony Bobulinski (TB here).

The Chinese money was elaborately routed to avoid detection.

Hunter has the gall to complain to his daughter that he has to pay all the family expenses from the money he makes peddling Joe’s influence.

It’s really too much! Democrats are such crooks!

The idea of bringing the gun and tax charges was for the Biden DOJ to avoid being held accountable for not going after these bigger matters, and to show, “look, we’re even handed, we go after Trump and Hunter equally!”

The plea deal that fell through was overly inclusive and would have included crimes and related crimes other than the one before the judge, which is why it was rejected.

When Biden initially promised he would never pardon Hunter, it was with the expectation that he would win reelection, the DOJ would sentence Hunter to probation, and never chase the larger crimes.

Since Joe lost, he had to pardon Hunter instead. The pardon does not narrowly include just the two things he was convicted of, it goes back 11 years to just before Burisma, a period that encompasses all the crimes alluded to above. Jon Stewart does a hilarious take on it:

We are now expecting a raft of pardons to come down next on the other family members and on all the corrupt Democrats who abused their positions of power over the past 8 years.

In a way, it’s a good thing. The Democrats have lost so much “moral high ground”, I doubt they’ll win another election in my lifetime.