President Joe Biden has spent his half-century of political power to liberate his son from the consequences of his infractions, so why would the final full month of the president’s lame duck tenure prove any different? After months of promising he would “abide by the jury’s decision” to eventually convict Hunter Biden of various tax and gun crimes, the Big Guy came through for the First Son on last time before being discarded by the Democratic Party into the ash heap of history. True to form, Joe Biden has pardoned Hunter, absolving the convicted felon not just of the tax and gun crimes in question, but for any crimes “committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
Daddy’s pardon seals the deal that Daddy’s Justice Department could not. The DOJ’s deal, which the president specifically lauded in his statement announcing his pardon of Hunter, would have protected Hunter from any future prosecution resulting from other investigations into whether he failed to register as a foreign agent or violated international sex trafficking statutes when soliciting prostitutes abroad. Conveniently, the pardon begins just months before the younger Biden was discharged from the U.S. Navy Reserve after testing positive for cocaine, discovered by his wife to be soliciting prostitutes abroad, and joined the board of Burisma Holdings.
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Hunter Biden was, indeed, “treated differently” by federal prosecutors, but not in the way the president tried to portray. Of the 2,550 subjects of IRS criminal investigations in fiscal 2022, more than 9 in 10 offenders prosecuted were eventually convicted. More gallingly, Biden’s Justice Department intentionally sat on the most serious evidence that Hunter Biden may have violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act and other lobbying prohibitions during his international business dealings. By simply waiting out the clock until the five-year statute of limitations for FARA expired, exactly five years after Biden resigned from his plum position on the board of Burisma Holdings and his father announced his third bid for the presidency, Daddy’s DOJ ensured Hunter Biden would never have to answer for the crimes most likely to implicate his father, who Burisma business partner Devon Archer confirmed would routinely call into his son’s professional meetings.
From securing Hunter plum patronages with his political donors and public sector allies at Amtrak and the Clinton Commerce Department to his pardon today, Joe Biden has spent the last 50 years trying to absolve his son from his sins and abdicate him from any responsibility for his actions. The only good news for Republicans is that not only is the entire clan of Biden grifters riding Joe’s coattails on their own, but also, now Democrats have no excuse to feign shock and awe when Donald Trump inevitably follows suit and plays the familiar pardon game.
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