Is the Biden Crime Family Above the Law?

Ten days ago on Sunday, December 1, 2024, President Joe Biden issued a “full and unconditioned” pardon to his son Hunter. The “unusual” pardon was granted for crimes that Hunter committed against the United States over a period of January 1, 2014, until December 1, 2024 – ten years and eleven months. It covers a longer period of time than any previous presidential pardon. It also covers the period of time when Joe Biden was Vice President and traveling around the world with Hunter at his side as well as his time as President of the United States.

Critics of the pardon are from both major political parties. President Biden said that he gave the pardon to his son because Hunter Biden was always “treated differently” than other Americans because his last name was Biden. In an article published at The Daily Signal, David Harsanyi agreed with President Biden that his son received different treatment. However, his reasoning was different than that of the President. 

If Hunter Biden had a different last name, he would never have been able to launch a career in corrupt influence peddling or launder millions through his “art” or write a self-serving memoir about crack-fueled whoremongering or dump a gun next to a high school without any real consequences.

If Hunter’s last name weren’t “Biden,” special counsel David Weiss would never have let him get away with failing to register as a foreign agent or avoid paying millions in taxes that flowed from his foreign arrangements. If your name isn’t Biden, don’t try writing off your hookers and crack as tax deductions.

If Hunter had been treated like anyone else, the Justice Department wouldn’t have tried to give him blanket immunity not only on gun and tax charges but on a slew of uninvestigated potential offenses, including bribery and corruption.

If it hadn’t been for a principled judge named Maryellen Noreika asking the government’s so-called prosecutors if they could provide a single precedent in which immunity was offered to a person for “crimes in a different case” (they could not), Hunter Biden would have walked last year. The DOJ was trying to pardon Hunter Biden long before Donald Trump won the presidency.

Then again, if it weren’t for the congressional testimony of IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler, it’s highly unlikely that the younger Biden would have ever been charged even with those two piddling misdemeanor counts.

Harsanyi continued by explaining that President Biden’s Attorney General Merrick Garland and Department of Justice protected Hunter Biden for four years. They kept Hunter out of any courtroom for as long as they could, and they dragged out the justice process until “the statute of limitations on the most serious potential crimes ran out.”

In addition, Harsanyi noted the many times that Joe Biden lied to the American people: He lied when he claimed that he and Hunter never discussed business. He lied when he claimed that he would never pardon Hunter but let the justice process play out as it should.

Then Harsanyi emphasized that the “pardon letter itself is also a lie,” and the media is still lying for the Bidens. They claim that the pardon is to protect Hunter from “specific gun and tax charges, when it is a pardon for all federal crimes committed over the past decade.” The ten years of protection happen to be the same ten years and eleven months when Joe Biden was Vice President and President of the United States. Harsanyi continued with his explanation:

Any genuine investigation into the Biden family’s $17 million foreign influence-peddling business would necessitate deposing the president of the United States and compelling him to answer numerous difficult queries about his connections to disreputable authoritarian regimes. Being a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory” will only get you so far.

Hunter Biden’s laptop, despite censorious efforts of the press and social media platforms, was real and spectacular. It was filled with messages referencing his father’s role in securing the money and taking cuts from the business, not to mention the witnesses who said that the “Big Guy” had a part in that outfit or the checks, referring to Joe Biden.

As Harsanyi noticed, it is true that Hunter would have been treated differently if his last name were not Biden. For one thing, Hunter would have had to “answer for the 20-plus shell companies he helped set up with his uncle James Biden.”

Harsanyi emphasizes other interesting facts about Hunter’s pardon. The period of time covered by the pardon is the same period of time when Hunter was being paid “$50,000 to $83,000 per month as a board member of the Ukrainian energy giant Burisma in 2014.” It is the same period of time when Hunter’s father, Vice President Joe Biden, was making United States policy for dealing with Ukraine.

Harsanyi reminded us that the period of time covered by the pardon also covers “2015, when Hunter Biden received emails from a Ukrainian businessman thanking him for the chance to meet with Joe Biden.” Remember, Joe Biden claimed that he was not involved in Hunter’s business.

The pardon also covers “2017, when we have an email proposing an equity breakdown of a venture with Chicom energy concerns, which included the line, “10 held by H for the big guy?” It was also in 2017 when “Hunter Biden threatened his Chinese partner Raymond Zhao with the words, ‘I am sitting here with my father’…”

In addition, the pardon covers “2019, when Hunter Biden received two wire transfers totaling $260,000 from Beijing with the president’s Delaware home listed as the beneficiary address….”

The evidence behind the pardon points to more than simply a father’s concern for his “once-addicted son – privileged, middle-aged, Yale-educated lawyer and international lobbyist.” It looks to me like Joe Biden was trying to protect himself when he gave such a wide-ranging pardon to his son who has lived less than an ideal life.

Joe Biden might be a loving father to try to protect his son from accountability, but he certainly was not doing him any good when he enabled his son in his influence trading. In the words of Harsanyi, “a patriot would never have put the country or his family in this position.”