Hunter Biden’s Pardon Is All About Protecting Joe Biden, Not His Son

 By pardoning his son for more than a decade of potential crimes, the president is protecting himself above all.

President Joe Biden didn’t pardon Hunter because he’s a loving father who thinks his drug addict son was treated unfairly by the Justice Department. He pardoned Hunter to help cover up his own crimes, just as he’ll likely pardon other members of his family before he leaves office in January. He’s trying to protect himself, and this is one of the only ways he has left to do it.

After all, President Biden is the one at the center of the influence-peddling and bribery schemes that Hunter ran while Biden was vice president. Joe, not Hunter, was the one being bribed. It was his influence, not Hunter’s, that was being purchased by Ukrainian oligarchs and Chinese businessmen, both during and after Biden was vice president. There’s no Biden family business without “the big guy.” Focusing on Hunter’s crimes, and his pardon, is a distraction from the far more serious crimes his father committed.

Even Hunter’s prosecution wasn’t really about him or his misdeeds. The tax and gun charges were about protecting him from being indicted for more serious charges that would have implicated the president and forced him to answer questions about his involvement in Hunter’s overseas business deals. That’s why Special Counsel David Weiss never indicted the younger Biden for failing to register as a foreign agent, allowing the statute of limitations to expire on that and other serious crimes, and then trying to engineer a sweetheart plea deal that would have granted him blanket immunity — immunity he’s now gotten from his father in the form of a pardon that covers a jaw-dropping eleven years.

Why did Weiss do this? Because Hunter’s real tax crimes stem from failing to disclose the tens of millions he and his family raked in from the Biden family’s overseas influence-peddling operations in Ukraine and China. Weiss scrupulously avoided any investigation into those business dealings, and the tax fraud that resulted from them, because such an investigation would have obviously implicated President Biden.

Indeed, Hunter would have escaped any charges at all if the IRS whistleblowers Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley hadn’t come forward. Weiss only indicted Hunter after Ziegler and Shapley revealed that federal prosecutors in Washington and California had refused to bring charges despite ample evidence of crimes. So far from Biden’s claim that his son was “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Hunter received special treatment from Biden’s DOJ.

As Margot Cleveland noted in these pages on Monday, “the whistleblowers’ testimony established that Hunter Biden wasn’t unjustly targeted, but instead received unfair preferential treatment: The DOJ refused to authorize a search at his father’s house because of ‘appearances,’ witnesses were tipped to the FBI’s impending questioning of them, federal prosecutors allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most serious criminal charges, and the DOJ entered into a sweetheart plea agreement calling for no felony charges pursuant to a deferral agreement that was so unusual, the federal judge asked for briefing on the propriety of the deal.” 

Hunter’s guilty plea on felony tax charges suggests that a presidential pardon from his father was part of the plan once Weiss’s hand was forced by the whistleblowers, both of whom have said it was clear that Joe Biden was implicated in Hunter’s overseas business dealings, that he was “the big guy” mentioned in Hunter’s emails. The pardon, which extends back to January 2014 — far outside the purview of the straightforward tax and gun cases brought against Hunter — serves not just to keep Hunter out of prison but also to end the possibility that his influence-peddling scheme in Ukraine and elsewhere will ever be properly investigated.

Keep in mind, too, that getting to the bottom of the Biden family business in Ukraine was what then-President Trump was trying to do in 2019 when he asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to look into Hunter’s business arrangement with Burisma, the Ukrainian gas company that was paying him an $83,000 monthly salary (despite his lack of experience in the energy sector). Trump understandably wanted to know more about then-Vice President Joe Biden’s role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating Burisma, which Biden himself bragged about after threatening to withhold aid to Ukraine unless the prosecutor was fired.

For that, Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats impeached Trump. Put another way, the Democrats impeached Trump for wanting to investigate the alleged crimes for which Biden just pardoned Hunter. 

Pelosi would probably not have gone to such lengths simply to protect Hunter. No, the real subject at the heart of all this—the impeachment, the slow-walked investigation of Hunter, the lesser criminal charges brought against him, the thwarted plea deal, and finally the pardon—was Joe Biden. All of this has been to protect him. His son has just been collateral damage in that effort.

In the end, the president might keep his son and other family members out of jail with last-minute pardons, but once the truth comes out, as it inevitably will, Biden will likely go down in history as one of the most corrupt presidents in American history. 

https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/03/hunter-bidens-pardon-is-all-about-protecting-joe-biden-not-his-son/

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/prosecutors-special-counsel-dave-weisss-office-object-hunter/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/just-wisconsin-judge-enforces-subpoena-against-actblue-lawsuit/

What sort of legacy does Joe Biden have to ‘tarnish’?

 

The dishonest media, who hid the obvious mental decline of Biden for years, now act shocked that Biden pardoned his son. 

They act as if it is rare for a congenital liar like Biden to lie. 

Here, CNN says that this pardon will tarnish his legacy, as if his legacy had been great except for this pardon. 

It was clear to anyone with a brain that Biden was always going to pardon his son.  No matter how many crimes Hunter committed, Joe always said he was the smartest man in the world and never did anything wrong. 

As he issued the pardon, they continue to lie that he had just decided to do it.  He obviously knew he was going to do it long before the election, no matter how many times he said he wouldn’t.

Biden continually lied that he had no idea what his son was doing when he was taking him around the world, taking kickbacks from foreign countries, including our enemies.  As the Republicans continually presented evidence of the kickbacks, the media and other Democrats continually regurgitated the lie that there was no evidence that Joe Biden had done anything wrong. 

It is clear that Joe Biden, whose mind is shot, did not write the language in this pardon.  He didn’t come up with the blanket pardon for ten years to cover the kickbacks.  It looks to me as though Hunter’s attorneys wrote the pardon to cover his crimes as a foreign agent and other crimes he may have committed.  It is pathetic to give Hunter a blanket pardon. 

As for Biden’s legacy:

Stealing classified documents for decades?

Getting almost all foreign policy decisions wrong, according to Robert Gates?

The Afghanistan disaster?

Open borders that let in criminals and terrorists?  Losing over 300,000 children?  Making cartels rich?

High inflation that destroyed the poor and the middle class?

Firing people who chose not to take a vaccine?

Keeping schools closed at the behest of political supporters?

Destroying women’s sports?

Dictatorially and unconstitutionally paying off hundreds of billions in student loans?

Building up the finances of Iran and Russia so they can finance wars and terrorism?

Continually lying about what Trump said in Charlottesville to gin up racial hate and division? 

Wasting all the money on worthless DIE?

I would challenge anyone to come up with a list of domestic and foreign accomplishments of Biden that supposedly give him a good legacy.  I can’t think of any. 

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/what_sort_of_legacy_does_joe_biden_have_to_tarnish.html

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The Ninth Circuit rules that, yes, the federal government can deport people

 The Ninth Circuit has long been the left-most federal appellate court in the United States. However, the day after Thanksgiving, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision that must have made President-elect Donald Trump very happy: It concluded that the Supremacy Clause means what it says, namely, that when it comes to the border, local political bodies cannot use regulations governing private parties to override the federal government’s supremacy on immigration matters.

United States v. King County revolved around Boeing Field, an airport in King County, Washington (i.e., the Seattle area). In 1941, King County conveyed the field to the U.S. government for wartime purposes. In 1948, the government reconveyed the field to King County. However, one contingency of the Instrument of Transfer was that the U.S. retained full access to Boeing Field.

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Beginning in 2012, ICE began to use Boeing Field to deport illegal aliens. To this end, ICE leased charter services for planes and personnel. However, in 2018, King County officials took umbrage at this practice. So, in 2019, they issued an executive order mandating that when the airport entered into leases with fixed base operations (FBOs)—that is, private businesses providing essential services such as fueling and stairs—those leases prohibit the FBOs from servicing ICE charter flights.

The County’s explicit purpose was to block the federal government’s ability to deport illegal aliens, and the plan worked. FBOs immediately stopped providing services to ICE because it would have destroyed their businesses had they continued to do so. ICE relocated its flights to Yakima, Washington, which increased their costs—and, of course, increased the federal debt.

The Trump administration sued in 2020 and, much to my surprise, the Biden administration has pursued the case in the ensuing years. Just as surprisingly, the District Court ruled in the government’s favor, and, most surprisingly of all, the Ninth Circuit has just affirmed that decision.

Having dealt with some silly procedural issues that King County raised and addressed questions about whether the U.S. had retained rights in Boeing Field (it had), the Court got to the serious substantive issue. That was whether a local government could indirectly block the federal government’s ability to act within its sphere of power—a sphere that entirely encompasses immigration enforcement. The Ninth Circuit concluded that local governments cannot do that.

These two sentences say it all:

It is of course true that “[p]rivate contractors do not stand on the same footing as the federal government, so states can impose many laws on federal contractors that they could not apply to the federal government itself.” [snip] That said, “any state regulation that purports to override the federal government’s decisions about who will carry out federal functions runs afoul of the Supremacy Clause.”

In other words, just as the federal government cannot use private businesses (such as social media companies) to do indirectly that which the federal government cannot do directly (such as censor speech), local governments cannot use private businesses (such as airport service providers) to do indirectly that which the governments cannot do directly (such as hamstringing the federal government’s completely supremacy on immigration matters).

This should be a warning to Democrat localities all over America. If even the Ninth Circuit doesn’t support your immigration war on the federal government, you have preemptively lost, so don’t even try.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/the_ninth_circuit_rules_that_yes_the_federal_government_can_deport_people.html

t's time to reform the presidential pardon

 Joe Biden has shown that his mendacity has no limits and made a fool of his supporters by pardoning his son after repeatedly saying he wouldn’t.  There is now an opportunity for the Republicans and the nation to move on what should be a bipartisan effort to severely curtail the president’s pardon power.

The Republicans’ new branding as the party of the working man should fit well with reforming the pardon power.  Let the Democrats defend it.  Let the Democrats continue to be known as the party of the elite, the connected, the corrupt, and the rich, who can afford expensive lawyers.

The presidential pardon power is listed in the Constitution, so any modification would probably require a constitutional amendment. 

I believe in mercy, and I believe in redemption, but the current use of the presidential pardon is one more example of Washington insiders playing by one set of rules and the rest of the country having to fend for themselves.

I don’t believe that the pardon should be abandoned, but the following reforms could be enacted.

The Congress, by a vote of two thirds in each chamber, could void any pardon.

The president cannot pardon himself or any member of his immediate family.

Any pardon should take place between the months of February and September, and Congress must be in session.  This means that the president must risk paying a political price for any pardon he may propose.

The president may present Congress with only one individual pardon each day.  This would not only limit the number of pardons, but also prohibit presidents from changing criminal law completely by in effect changing the sentencing structures in place that they don’t like for certain types of crimes.

Also, the president may not pre-emptively pardon someone for something he may have done (the Hunter rule).  Any pardon must be after the person has been tried, convicted, and sentenced.

A republic ruled by laws and not men deserves to have this anachronistic presidential power reformed and brought into the 21st century.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/12/it_s_time_to_reform_the_presidential_pardon.html

“Cancel Me!” – Eric Adams Dares People to Cancel Him For Working with Trump and Tom Homan to Deport Criminal Aliens (VIDEO)

 

Eric Adams

Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams dared people to ‘cancel’ him for wanting to work with President Trump and his Border Czar Tom Homan regarding deportations of illegal aliens.

President Trump recently appointed Tom Homan as Border Czar to stop the Biden-Harris illegal alien invasion.

Homan will also be tasked with deporting illegal aliens.

More than 15 million illegal aliens – mainly military-age males – have invaded the US under Biden and Harris’ watch.

 

The Biden Regime knowingly allowed hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens, many murderers and rapists, into the US.

 

Tom Homan vowed he would prioritize deporting the criminal aliens first.

Eric Adams echoed Tom Homan’s position on criminal aliens.

 

“Those who are here, committing crimes, shooting at police officers, raping innocent people, have been a harm to our country,I want to sit down and hear their plan on how to address them,” Eric Adams said of Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan.

Adams continued, “Those are the people I’m talking about and I would love to sit down with the Border Czar and hear his thoughts on how we are going to address those who are harming our citizens.

But Eric Adams wasn’t done yet. He told a reporter to “Google” Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to see what they said about illegal aliens committing crimes.

 

Here’s Hillary Clinton in 2008 going full MAGA, calling for criminal aliens to be deported and demanding illegals learn English:

Eric Adams said ‘cancel culture’ is making people too afraid to tell the truth.

“Well, cancel me because I’m going to protect the people of this city,” Adams said.

WATCH:

 https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/cancel-me-eric-adams-dares-people-cancel-him/

‘Dumb’ Democrat Sen. Durbin Defends Deep State Ally — Claims Trump ‘Can’t Fire FBI Director Wray’ Before 2027

 This clown is an embarrassment to downstate Illinois.  What a Dumbass

Senator Dick Durbin

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), the Senate Majority Whip and Chair of the Judiciary Committee, has defended FBI Director Christopher Wray, asserting that President Trump lacks the authority to replace Wray before his term expires in 2027.

Durbin, echoing the talking points of the Democratic establishment, lambasted Trump’s decision to nominate Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel, a staunch advocate for accountability and one of the key figures in exposing the Russia collusion hoax, has become a target of left-wing attacks precisely because of his track record of confronting corruption.

On Saturday, Trump announced his intention to replace current FBI Director Christopher Wray. Trump praised Patel as a “brilliant lawyer” and a staunch defender of justice, poised to tackle America’s crime and corruption.

Trump wrote on Truth Social:

“I am proud to announce that Kashyap “Kash” Patel will serve as the next Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and “America First” fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People. He played a pivotal role in uncovering the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, standing as an advocate for truth, accountability, and the Constitution.

Kash did an incredible job during my First Term, where he served as Chief of Staff at the Department of Defense, Deputy Director of National Intelligence, and Senior Director for Counterterrorism at the National Security Council.

Kash has also tried over 60 jury trials. This FBI will end the growing crime epidemic in America, dismantle the migrant criminal gangs, and stop the evil scourge of human and drug trafficking across the Border. Kash will work under our great Attorney General, Pam Bondi, to bring back Fidelity, Bravery, and Integrity to the FBI.”

However, Durbin insists that Wray should remain in his position until the end of his designated term, despite clear precedents and the President’s constitutional authority to make changes within the executive branch.

“We already have a FBI Director, and his term doesn’t expire until 2027. Donald Trump can’t be allowed to hire and fire FBI Directors just because they failed his loyalty test,” said Durbin in a statement.

“President Biden kept Director Wray in office because the FBI is supposed to be insulated from partisanship. Now, the president-elect wants to replace his own appointee with an unqualified loyalist,” Durbin added.

“The Senate should reject this unprecedented effort to weaponize the FBI for the campaign of retribution that Donald Trump has promised.”

Screenshot: Durbin tweet

The FBI Director, a key executive branch position, is appointed to a 10-year term to ensure the bureau’s independence from political influence. However, the President has the power to dismiss the director at any time.

Examples of Presidential Removal:

• Bill Clinton (1993): Fired FBI Director William Sessions over ethical concerns and alleged misuse of government resources.
• Donald Trump (2017): Fired FBI Director James Comey, citing dissatisfaction with Comey’s handling of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Russia investigation.

Durbin’s claim that Trump cannot fire Wray is not only baseless but a concerning ignorance of constitutional law. The President possesses the power to appoint and remove executive officials as outlined in Article II of the Constitution.

Relevant Provisions in the Constitution:

1. Article II, Section 1:
   • “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.”
   • This vests the President with overall authority over the executive branch, which includes the FBI, a component of the Department of Justice.
2. Article II, Section 3:
   • The President must “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.”
   • As head of the executive branch, the President is responsible for overseeing federal agencies, including the FBI.
3. Appointment Power (Article II, Section 2):
   • The President appoints “officers of the United States,” with Senate confirmation. By extension, this authority includes the power to remove those officers unless restricted by law.

The backlash was swift and brutal. The internet erupted, blasting Durbin for what many called a “dumb” statement.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/chairman-senate-judiciary-committee-sen-durbin-defends-deep/

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What a "Dick"

Sen. Bill Hagerty Drops Truth Bombs on ‘Meet the Press’ FBI Needs Reform, “Kash Patel is Just the Type of Person to Do It” (Video)

 When the Marxist Corrupt Left  hates the pick that means it's a great choice.  The link below has the Lying Piece of Shit Adam Schitt for Brains complaining about it.

 

The Deep State is panicking over the news this weekend that President Trump has officially nominated Kash Patel for the role of FBI Director in his next Administration.

Patel boasts an impressive resume.  But what worries Deep Staters, Democrats, the media, and RINOs is Kash’s commitment to transparency and protecting the rights of regular Americans.

During an appearance on Meet the Press, Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) schooled the host on why Kash Patel is perfect for reforming the FBI.

Hagerty told NBC’s Kristen Welker, “I’ve encouraged President Trump to bring Kash Patel to the table for precisely this reason. Unlike Jake, I understand his resistance to talk about Kash, but I’m more than happy to talk about him.”

“He represents the type of change that we need to see in the FBI. If you think about the failures of background checks that have taken place, how could we have somebody like Colin Call who tweeted out classified information? I went to the FBI myself. They ignored me. Basically, he was confirmed on a party-line vote in the US Senate with Kamala Harris, breaking the tie to put this person that should not even have a security clearance in the third most powerful position at DOD.”

“You’ve got Rob Malley. I don’t know how he cleared an FBI check. He’s now under investigation. His ties to the Iranian influence regime that worked with him and for him.”

“Ariane Tabatabai, who is still at the DOD, should never clear an FBI background check, this entire agency needs to be cleaned out. It’s not doing its job.”

“If you look at what happened, the politicization that took place back in 2016, when senior leaders of the FBI collaborated and inspired to try to keep President Trump out of office.”

“Then when he came into office, they put together this fake Russiagate investigation that hindered the Trump administration at the first several years.”

“Look at 2020, look at what happened there with the fake Hunter Biden story that the FBI leadership worked together with big tech to censor the Hunter Biden laptop that allowed President Biden to basically fool the American public and come into office.”

“There are serious problems that the FBI, the American public knows it. They expect to see sweeping change, and Kash Patel is just the type of person to do it.

Watch:

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https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/sen-bill-hagerty-drops-truth-bombs-meet-press/

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/02/adam-schiff-demands-senate-reject-kash-patel-long-time-nemesis-as-fbi-director/

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/rino-neocon-john-bolton-unhappy-trumps-kash-patel/