Jordan Boyd writes for the Federalist about the facts surrounding Hunter Biden’s pardon.
According to President Joe Biden, no one is above the law — unless, of course, you are his son. …
… Joe’s “full and unconditional” pardon doesn’t simply cover his son’s gun paperwork felonies, which he was convicted of in June. His official statement explicitly grants leniency to Hunter for any federal crime the younger Biden may have committed over the last decade. …
… Joe’s assertion that Hunter received unique treatment from the powers that be is correct, but not for the reasons the president listed.
Ever since Joe became vice president and then president, the bureaucracy has gone out of its way to handle Hunter and his criminality with kid gloves.
Hunter allegedly failed to pay over $1.4 million in taxes and lied about illicit drug use on the federal form required for gun purchases, facts that were widely reported and well known to federal investigators. Despite public knowledge of Hunter’s guns and tax crimes, however, U.S. Attorney David Weiss repeatedly delayed bringing charges against him.
When charges finally came to fruition, it was only to draw attention away from the Biden family’s overseas pay-to-play scheme and came with a carefully curated sweetheart plea deal. This scheme not only aimed to limit Hunter’s punishment to probation instead of the jail time that usually plagues Americans convicted of the same crimes, but also conveniently would have protected the president from scrutiny for his role in his family’s foreign corruption scheme.
Joe blamed “my political opponents in Congress” and the U.S. Department of Justice for the death of the deal he claimed would have made for “a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.” In reality, if it weren’t for the federal judge who saw through the Bidens’ political favoritism ploy, the careful collusion between the DOJ and other Biden allies, Hunter would have immunity for “any other federal crimes” he allegedly committed.
The plea deal scandal was only the tip of the benefits the Bidens, specifically Hunter, reaped from the nation’s two-tiered system of justice.
