Interesting how the tides and sentiments change.
Was listening to a few reports on the radio this morning on how there's outrage on both sides of the aisle (shocking. . .), but what caught my attention was something about the pardon supposedly covers any Federal offenses that Hunter may have committed over the past decade. I have no idea of the validity of that claim, but to hear it reported like that on MSM outlets, including traditionally heavily liberal ones was interesting.
I just hope dumbass did something that even daddy can't get him out of. Where the backlash and collateral damage is wide. Even better, where his and daddy's arrogance bites them in the ass. Maybe only happens in the movies, but one can hope. . .
The "may have committed" is why so many pundits are calling it out. Not since Nixon's pardon by Ford has any president issued such a catch-all pardon -- until Biden's pardon of his son. Every other pardon lists the crimes, statutes, codes and so on for the specific crimes to be pardoned. That way, if it's discovered they did something much worse, they can still be prosecuted. Also, specifying the crimes and sentences provides context as to why the pardon was issued. in Hunter's case, the rationalization was included but did not limit the pardon to those crimes mentioned: gun and tax charges.
This is the entire pardon statement:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/12/01/statement-from-president-joe-biden-11/Here is the "may have committed" section:
For those offenses against the United States which he has committed
or may have committed or taken part in during the period from
January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024, including but not limited
to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted
in convictions) by Special Counsel David C. Weiss in Docket No. 1:23-cr-
00061-MN in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware
and Docket No. 2:23-CR-00599-MCS-1 in the United States District Court
for the Central District of California.
It's a blank check predicated on the 2 cases he's already pleaded guilty to and been found guilty of in court.
The time span 1/1/2014 - 12/1/2024 is one month shy of 11 years, beginning about 3 months before Hunter was officially appointed by Burisma to their board of directors. It also includes the time he flew to China on AF2 with daddy and came home with a multi-million dollar deal with the Chinese Communist government.
Hunter flew all around the globe with daddy since 2010. in Germany, Joe gave a speech:
“My son, who is with me today, a 40-year-old man, will not, when he is my age,
be looking at China as a sworn enemy,” Biden told attendees at the Munich Security
Conference in February 2013 — just four years before Hunter and first brother
James Biden cashed in on the CEFC deal.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/25/hunter-biden-flew-on-air-force-two-with-vp-joe-to-13-nations-report/Hunter Biden was paid millions by Chinese state-
linked energy firm, Washington Post report findsA Washington Post report published Wednesday shed new light on Hunter Biden's
dealings with a Chinese energy firm and confirmed several details found on the
hard drive of a laptop he allegedly abandoned in a Delaware repair shop.
CEFC China Energy, which has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party and
People's Liberation Army, paid entities controlled by the then-cash-strapped
Hunter Biden or his uncle James Biden $4.8 million over the course of 14 months
beginning in 2017, according to The Washington Post.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/hunter-biden-paid-millions-chinese-172615419.htmlI guess this was ignored as just more Russian misinformation.
