In the text of the Hunter Biden pardon press release, Joe Biden admits his DOJ is corrupt. That is the pretext for the pardon.

[JoeB131]

The blanket clemency for 11 years for any crime is such a tell.

It has nothing to do with the June 2024 federal felony convictions.

It has to do with systemic corruption going back to 2014.

Talk about self incrimination…Good Lord!

Not at all.

When you have hacks coming into the DOJ, a blanket pardon makes sense.

Nixon got a blanket pardon, even though he hadn't been indicted for anything.

 

[Rawley]

Except Weiss was appointed by Trump.

On the recommendation of the two Senators from Delaware.

President to nominate David Weiss for US attorney in Delaware

President Donald Trump will nominate the acting U.S. attorney for Delaware, David Weiss, to take over the position permanently.

www.delawareonline.com

Biden could have fired him but didn't.

Not only not fire him, Garland appointed him Special Counsel.

For Biden to say the prosecution of his son was politicized by his own DOJ is simply bizarre.

 

[PeanutGallery]

I didn’t say a word about whether I believed him or not. I was questioning you. It sounds like you’re believing Biden and saying the DOJ is corrupt and targeting him and his son. Is that correct?

In that case, let's get your answer on the record. Do you believe Biden when he says that the current DOJ is corrupt and does selective investigations based on politics?

 

[PeanutGallery]

Not at all.

When you have hacks coming into the DOJ, a blanket pardon makes sense.

Nixon got a blanket pardon, even though he hadn't been indicted for anything.

If Biden believe that the DOJ was corrupt, why wasn't Weiss fired? Why didn't Biden order an investigation of the DOJ? Garland answers directly to Biden. If AG Garland was unwilling to address those issues, why does Garland still have a job today? This isn't even a good cover story why he granted the pardon.

Then again, democrats/liberals threw in people's faces that no one is above the law, and that Biden wouldn't give a pardon if Hunter was found guilty was a sign of how much he respected the rule of law, unlike Trump. Now, Biden has blown that whole narrative up in y'all faces on the way out the door. Good luck in trying to criticize Trump for pardoning all the J6 people arrested. Then again, I don't think Trump will do a blanket pardon like Biden just did.

 

[SeaMajor7]

CLOWN WORLD

 

[22lcidw]

I think that ship sailed in 1974 when Ford Pardoned Nixon.

The only difference is that Ford did it before the election of 1976 and it probably cost him the election to the feckless Jimmy Carter.

But

Ford Pardoned Nixon
Bush Sr. pardoned the Iran Contra Figures
Clinton Pardoned the Whitewater figures
Bush Jr. commuted Scooter Libby's sentence
Trump pardoned the Russia Collusion figures and will pardon the January 6th insurrectionists.

Biden pardoning his son for charges that never should have gone to court to start with because of an overzealous special prosecutor just doesn't seem that bad.

Progs destroyed Nixon. And the then Republicans went along with it. They were snookered. And they knew it.

 

[dudmuck]

The blanket clemency for 11 years for any crime is such a tell.

It has nothing to do with the June 2024 federal felony convictions.

It has to do with systemic corruption going back to 2014.

Talk about self incrimination…Good Lord!

 

[JoeB131]

Not only not fire him, Garland appointed him Special Counsel.

For Biden to say the prosecution of his son was politicized by his own DOJ is simply bizarre.

I'm going to try to have an honest conversation with you, for what little good it will do.

MOST ICs abuse their power. Doesn't matter if they are Republicans or Democrats or if they are investigating Republicans or Democrats.

Unlike regular prosecutors who have to prioritize which cases they are going to expend resources on (which is why most petty offenses get dismissed) an IC has unlimited resources to target someone, and they had better come up with something for all that trouble.

So Lawrence Walsh couldn't get North or Poindexter, much less Reagan, so instead he went after poor Cap Weinberger for not thinking his meeting notes constituted a diary. (And Cap was the one guy in the room saying trading weapons for hostages was a terrible idea.)

Or Ken Starr couldn't get Clinton on Whitewater, so he went after him for getting a Beej from Lewinsky.

Or Patrick Fitzgerald couldn't prove that the leak of Valerie Plame's name was retaliation- everyone involved was opposed to the war, just like her husband - so he went after Scooter Libby for not remembering a conversation the same way Tim Russert did.

If Hunter's case had been in the hands of regular prosecutors, they would have been satisfied that the gun was confiscated and the back taxes were paid. But only because he was the president's son and Weiss had unlimited resources to try to justify his existence did this thing go this far.

So like in all those other cases, the abuses of a Special Prosecutor/Independent Council had to be countered with a pardon.

 

[Rawley]

I'm going to try to have an honest conversation with you, for what little good it will do.

MOST ICs abuse their power. Doesn't matter if they are Republicans or Democrats or if they are investigating Republicans or Democrats.

Unlike regular prosecutors who have to prioritize which cases they are going to expend resources on (which is why most petty offenses get dismissed) an IC has unlimited resources to target someone, and they had better come up with something for all that trouble.

So Lawrence Walsh couldn't get North or Poindexter, much less Reagan, so instead he went after poor Cap Weinberger for not thinking his meeting notes constituted a diary. (And Cap was the one guy in the room saying trading weapons for hostages was a terrible idea.)

Or Ken Starr couldn't get Clinton on Whitewater, so he went after him for getting a Beej from Lewinsky.

Or Patrick Fitzgerald couldn't prove that the leak of Valerie Plame's name was retaliation- everyone involved was opposed to the war, just like her husband - so he went after Scooter Libby for not remembering a conversation the same way Tim Russert did.

If Hunter's case had been in the hands of regular prosecutors, they would have been satisfied that the gun was confiscated and the back taxes were paid. But only because he was the president's son and Weiss had unlimited resources to try to justify his existence did this thing go this far.

So like in all those other cases, the abuses of a Special Prosecutor/Independent Council had to be countered with a pardon.

Dude. He was a "regular" prosecutor until Garland appointed him a Special Prosecutor. During that time, he let SOL lapse on unpaid taxes on 1 million dollars Hunter made, coincidentally?, in the Burisma years.

 

[JoeB131]

Dude. He was a "regular" prosecutor until Garland appointed him a Special Prosecutor. During that time, he let SOL lapse on unpaid taxes on 1 million dollars Hunter made, coincidentally?, in the Burisma years.

Dude, most people never would have prosecuted that at all, once the back taxes have been paid.

The IRS loses interest in you once they get their money. Funny how that works.

 

[gipper]

Except Weiss was appointed by Trump. Biden could have fired him but didn't.

Hunter Biden is a free man.

Ed Snowden is a wanted man living in Russia, exiled from the USA for 11 years so far.

This is America.

 

[JoeB131]

Hunter Biden is a free man.

Ed Snowden is a wanted man living in Russia, exiled from the USA for 11 years so far.

This is America.

Hunter Biden made errors on paperwork.

Edward Snowden revealed secrets during a time of war when soldiers were in the field and in harm's way.

This is America. Most of the rest of the world would have shot Snowden on sight.

 

[Slade3200]

In that case, let's get your answer on the record. Do you believe Biden when he says that the current DOJ is corrupt and does selective investigations based on politics?

I don’t believe much of what Biden or most politicians say. I’m sure there is some shadiness going on in every company and agency in America. To call the entire system corrupt I think is political hyperbole and fear mongering.

 

[gipper]

Hunter Biden made errors on paperwork.

Edward Snowden revealed secrets during a time of war when soldiers were in the field and in harm's way.

This is America. Most of the rest of the world would have shot Snowden on sight.

Yeah in your mind a whistleblower exposing illegal unconstitutional actions by government, should be imprisoned. You unknowingly support a criminal enterprise because your mind is not your own.

Statists are the dumbest people on the planet.

 

[ColonelAngus]

You lefty cultists keep INTENTIONALLY missing the point.

THE FEDERAL FELONY GUN CHARGES COULD HAVE BEEN PARDONED WITHOUT GIVING A BLANKET PARDON GOING BACK TO JANUARY 2014.

Joe could have pardon the gun charges from 2018.

NO NEED TO GO BACK TO 2014….

Joe knows Hunter broke federal laws going back to 2014.

It is not complex.

 

[PeanutGallery]

Hunter Biden made errors on paperwork.

Edward Snowden revealed secrets during a time of war when soldiers were in the field and in harm's way.

This is America. Most of the rest of the world would have shot Snowden on sight.

Maybe I should ask Deja Taylor. She also was charged with lying on her paperwork for a background check. In fact, she lied on the same question that Hunter did. She was sentenced to 21 months in prison. This was going on at the same time with Hunter's gun charges were in the news. A lower-class black woman gets to be behind bars for "errors on paperwork", but the privileged white man gets off with no consequences because he's politically connected.

I think that you have Snowden confused with Julien Assange. Snowden blew the whistle that the U.S. was spying on its own citizens in violation of the law. Assange released files and videos during the GWOT. Do you think that the government should break the law and spy on your phone calls and emails without probable cause? The fact that he's the one in hiding and not John Brennan is an absolute joke. Brennan should be serving time in federal prison right now for allowing this; as well as everyone else involved.

 

[JoeB131]

Yeah in your mind a whistleblower exposing illegal unconstitutional actions by government, should be imprisoned. You unknowingly support a criminal enterprise because your mind is not your own.

Statists are the dumbest people on the planet.

He exposed sensitive military information in a time of war.
That's treason.

 

[gipper]

He exposed sensitive military information in a time of war.
That's treason.

No. He exposed government criminality. Obvious unconstitutional actions.

You being a dumb statist always support the state. Think for once.

 

[JoeB131]

No. He exposed government criminality. Obvious unconstitutional actions.

You being a dumb statist always support the state. Think for once.

What I think that if I were still a young staff sergeant in the US Army, and some asshole exposed information that would have put me and my troops in danger, I'd want to shoot the mother fucker.

 

[gipper]

What I think that if I were still a young staff sergeant in the US Army, and some asshole exposed information that would have put me and my troops in danger, I'd want to shoot the mother fucker.

Proving once again, your love of the state.