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Federal Judge in Hunter Biden Tax Case Shreds Biden’s ‘Reckless’ Pardon of Hunter: Calls It an Unconstitutional Power Grab to Rewrite History and Undermine DOJ Integrity

In a blistering rebuke, a federal judge has openly questioned the constitutionality of President Joe Biden’s recent pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, calling it an overreach of executive power aimed at rewriting history and undermining the integrity of the Department of Justice (DOJ).

On December 1, 2024, Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to his embattled son, Hunter Biden, who faced charges of tax evasion and corruption. The pardon, however, quickly drew ire for its timing and the breadth of its language.

Statement from Joe Biden:

Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted.

Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.

Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.

The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election.

Then, a carefully negotiated plea deal, agreed to by the Department of Justice, unraveled in the court room – with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.

No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong.

There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.

For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: just tell the American people the truth. They’ll be fair-minded.

Here’s the truth: I believe in the justice system, but as I have wrestled with this, I also believe raw politics has infected this process and it led to a miscarriage of justice – and once I made this decision this weekend, there was no sense in delaying it further. I hope Americans will understand why a father and a President would come to this decision.

Hunter Biden provided notice of the pardon through a hyperlink to a White House press release rather than a certified document. This unusual approach drew the court’s ire.

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Disgraced Ex-FBI Chief Andrew McCabe Panics: Fears of ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Over Hunter Biden’s 2014 Pardon Scandal

Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former FBI Chief, is attempting to spin President Joe Biden’s unprecedented pardon of Hunter Biden as anything other than a cover-up.

This blanket pardon, which spans an eyebrow-raising 11 years, has left many conservatives, leftists, and legal experts questioning what crimes might lurk in Hunter Biden’s shadowy past.

However, McCabe, who himself resigned in disgrace amid allegations of misconduct, is painting the pardon as an act of mercy rather than what it appears to be: a desperate bid to shield the Biden family from scrutiny.

He parroted the Biden administration’s narrative, claiming the pardon was necessary because Hunter Biden was allegedly targeted due to his father’s political role. But this argument doesn’t hold water. Hunter Biden enjoyed a five-year investigation that resulted in minimal charges — a level of leniency most Americans could never expect.

Joe Biden granted his son Hunter Biden a blanket pardon in the federal gun and tax cases against him Sunday night. The pardon covers any federal crimes by Hunter from 2014 to 2024.

“I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” said Biden.

He continued, “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son – and that is wrong. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”

The timeline is no coincidence. In 2014, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm mired in corruption scandals. That same year now marks the start of his blanket pardon.

The connection to Burisma is impossible to ignore. McCabe, of course, dismisses such scrutiny as mere “conspiracy theories,” conveniently ignoring that a pardon of this scope wouldn’t be necessary unless there were serious crimes committed during that period.

During a segment on CNN, Brianna Keilar highlighted the suspicious timing, noting how 2014 coincides with Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board, a position that reportedly paid him exorbitantly despite his lack of relevant expertise. Keilar quoted Senator-elect Jim Banks (R-IN), who astutely pointed out that this broad pardon “essentially admits” there is something worth covering up from that time.

However, McCabe is more concerned that “conspiracy theories” might arise from Hunter’s pardon beginning in 2014. He suggested the pardon’s broad time frame was intended to protect Hunter from “politically motivated prosecutions.”

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FLASHBACK: Joe And Hunter Biden Met With Russian Energy Execs Within Weeks Of Crimean Annexation…The Question Is…Why?

A well-placed source has informed CDMedia that Joe and Hunter Biden met with state-controlled corporate Russian energy executives in April of 2014. The meeting took place in the United States. Energy deals were discussed.

So what? you may ask. However, dig deeper, the timing is critical.

Only a few weeks earlier, the Maidan Revolution occurred in Ukraine. The Obama administration was behind the overthrow of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanykovych. Over one hundred protesters were shot and killed by snipers loyal to the Yanykovych regime.

Only a few weeks later, before the Biden meeting, Russia invaded and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, and stoked the war between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces in the Donbass region of East Ukraine. The conflict continues today. People are still dying.

The Obama administration forced Ukraine to not respond militarily to the Crimean aggression. This is well documented. Sanctions however were implemented against the Russian Federation for their actions and continue to this day as well.

What occurred in Ukraine in early 2014 and the following weeks between the Obama administration, Kyiv and the Kremlin has never been sufficiently investigated. The corrupt media just doesn’t care.

But if Russia was then, and still is, our enemy number one according to Obama and HIllary at the time, then why were Joe and Hunter meeting with Russian energy executives only weeks later?

Could it be Joe and Hunter had something to sell? Could that something have been keeping Ukraine from responding militarily to the Russian military action? What would Joe and Hunter want in return? And why was Hunter in the meeting at all? He had no official government function.

There is a pattern here. Joe took Hunter to China on business, and Hunter returned with a $1.5 billion check for an investment firm he controlled. What did Joe sell then? Enquiring minds want to know.

And, we all know about the Burisma scandal, where Hunter Biden [and Joe] received millions of dollars from Ukrainian organized crime in a quid pro quo for Joe’s influence to stop investigations into Burisma organized crime.

We also know the Obama administration and the Hillary Clinton campaign secretly later paid Russian intelligence to develop the infamous ‘Steele Dossier’ which was later used to try and removed duly-elected President Donald Trump from office.

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All Roads Lead to Kiev

So Joe Biden pardoned Hunter. Big surprise.

Of course, the President and his mouthpiece, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, have been denying this would happen for months, ever since it became clear that Hunter was going down for what must surely be the very least of his crimes.

But it didn’t take the gift of foresight or a spare palantir to see this was obviously going to happen.

Hunter was never really going down, was he?

Some, including friends of mine, have been saying that Biden’s clemency humanises him. That it makes him relatable—like an actual human being with the thoughts and feelings, and the weaknesses, we’d expect from an actual human being, from a father—by contrast with the other bipedal creatures that now infest the upper ranks of the Democrat Party.

And to be honest with you, given the state of the Democrats in 2024 and their ideas about fatherhood and masculinity, I think these people are right. Just look back at the DNC. Look what was done to Tim Walz’s little boy: they put a bowl on his head, gave him a haircut straight out of Dumb and Dumber and made him go full retard for the whole world to see. You never go full retard! Those are Democrat family values in 2024. (Recent TikTok videos show that young Walz Jr. is perfectly fine now, thank heavens.)

Pardoning your philandering crackhead son for being a philandering crackhead looks positively normal by comparison, even if it’s far from the plot of a Hallmark Christmas movie.

Would you pardon your crackhead son if you were president? Probably. I think I would.

So don’t be so quick to judge.

Or maybe do. Do judge. Because the pardon’s not just about Hunter—obviously. It’s about Joe too.

As somebody said on Twitter today: “Joe Biden just pardoned himself.”

Biden is right, as he stated in the pardon, that the prosecution of his son was nakedly political. It was aimed at him, the President. Joe, not Hunter, was the target. Hunter’s convictions came at a time when the nation’s hair-sniffer-in-chief had ceased to be useful. After his diabolical debate perfomance, his cognitive decline could no longer be concealed—perhaps his medication was swapped, even—and now it was time for a new candidate to be put forward.

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Biden’s Pardon Of Son’s Drug-Related Crimes Draws Calls From Advocates To Free Marijuana Prisoners

President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, for drug-related and other crimes is drawing cries from criminal justice and marijuana policy reformers, who call the action hypocritical and say the president should do more to grant clemency to cannabis prisoners before his term expires next month.

“In pardoning Hunter Biden, the president noted that despite believing in our justice system, sometimes the outcome of that process is not fair or just,” said Sarah Gersten, executive director and general counsel for Last Prisoner Project (LPP), a nonprofit that focuses on drug policy reform. “That is certainly the case for the nearly 3,000 cannabis prisoners who remain incarcerated federally for activity that has been widely legalized.”

Biden over the weekend pardoned his son, who had been convicted on felony gun and tax charges earlier this year. Three of those convictions were related to lying on a federal form about drug use when buying a gun in 2018, a time when he was using crack cocaine.

In a statement, the president said his pardon reflected the belief that his son was “being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” noting that “people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.”

That’s a claim that even some Republicans have echoed. Following the convictions, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said Hunter Biden “might deserve to be in jail for something, but purchasing a gun is not it.”

“There are millions of marijuana users who own guns in this country, and none of them should be in jail for purchasing or possessing a firearm against current laws,” the congressman said.

Then-Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a supporter of cannabis reform, said at the time that the “Hunter Biden gun conviction is kinda dumb.”

Nevertheless, advocates point out that thousands of people are still behind bars for cannabis-related offenses.

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It’s The Biolabs Stupid! Sleepy Joe’s Hunter Pardon Is Not About Gun & Tax Charges

If Joe Biden wanted to clear his son Hunter from being convicted of lying on a background check while purchasing a gun and evading taxes, he could have done just that.

However, Sleepy Joe suspiciously cleared Hunter of ANY CRIMES he committed “or may have committed or taken part in between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024.”

As popular 𝕏 account @WarClandestine noted, the pardon covers the time period when the CIA and U.S. State Department began their 2014 coup in Ukraine, the same year the Hunter Biden-funded biolab company Metabiota started working with the Department of Defense to do coronavirus research in Ukraine.

Clandestine also suggested the pardon is meant to cover up more than just Hunter’s involvement in the bizarre biolab network, as the operation is tied to the American and Chinese governments and the release of the COVID-19 bioweapon.

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Trump Suggests Bold Move Regarding 1/6 Defendants After Biden Pardons Son Hunter on Gun, Tax Crimes

In a dramatic political response to President Joe Biden’s unexpected pardon of his son Hunter, President-elect Donald Trump has raised questions about potential pardons for January 6 defendants, highlighting the ongoing tensions surrounding recent legal developments.

Trump took to social media Sunday night to challenge the presidential pardon, asking whether Biden’s clemency for Hunter would extend to those arrested during the January 6 Capitol protests. 

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” Trump wrote.

Fox News commentator Charlie Hurt also made the linkage. 

“I think he should at least commute the sentences of all of them and pardoned every single one that was obviously just following the person in front of them wandering through the capital,” Hurt recently said, as outlined by Mediaite.

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Trump Slams Biden’s Corruption After Hunter Pardon: ‘Such an Abuse and Miscarriage of Justice!’

On Sunday, outgoing White House resident Joe Biden issued a full and unconditional pardon to his son, Hunter Biden, absolving him of any federal crimes committed between 2014 and 2024.

Hunter Biden’s pardon comes in the wake of convictions for felony gun charges and a guilty plea to tax evasion. The younger Biden’s legal troubles have long been the focal point of Republican scrutiny, with allegations of influence-peddling, bribery, and shady dealings involving foreign entities like Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.

According to Newsweek, Hunter Biden was supposed to be sentenced on December 12 in Delaware for three felonies related to purchasing a gun while using drugs in October 2018. He could face up to 25 years in prison.

On December 16, Biden will be sentenced in Los Angeles for federal tax-related charges after pleading guilty in September. He faces up to 17 years in prison for tax offenses.

The indictment alleges that Biden engaged in a four-year scheme, failing to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes from 2016 to 2019.

With one stroke of his pen, Joe Biden has erased the legal consequences for his son’s actions while doubling down on claims that the justice system has been politically weaponized—against Hunter, no less.

In a public statement, Biden sought to defend his decision, claiming Hunter was “unfairly prosecuted” due to political motivations.

The President framed his actions as those of a father protecting his son from what he called “raw politics” infecting the justice system.

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CNN Correspondent Says the Quiet Part Out Loud – Admits Hunter Was Pardoned Out of Fear His Family Would Be Investigated by Trump

Jeff Zeleny, Chief National Affairs Correspondent from CNN, said the quiet part out loud on Sunday night after news broke that Joe Biden had granted Hunter Biden a blanket pardon for any criminal acts he partook in from 2014 to present including, trading influence for cash, trafficking prostitutes, and taking on the role of the Biden Family bagman.

Jeff Zeleny: We were told that this came to a head this weekend, and this is why President Biden decided now to do this. But as Isaac was just saying, that really is a sense of the conversation that has been going on really inside the family.

I’m told this has been very much a family discussion and something that has been not widely shared or discussed as a policy matter inside the West Wing.

But there was a worry of future prosecutions or future the potential of what the incoming Trump Justice Department could do.

So that, of course, is fretted in all of this as well.

But for now, this moment, this certainly is a decision that President Biden, I’m guessing, did not come too easily. But as you played that statement before, so much has changed since June when he told David Muir of ABC News that he would not do that.

Of course, his station in life has changed. Did not complete his campaign. So that is why, leading up to this, that’s why I’m told a decision was reached finally this weekend after spending time together in Nantucket.

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Speculation Rages That Biden Pardoned Hunter to Protect Himself

People responded to President Joe Biden pardoning his son Hunter Biden by speculating that Hunter had threatened to divulge sensitive information about his own father if his sentences were not commuted.

After repeatedly denying that he would pardon his son for gun and tax evasion convictions, Biden did a 180 and announced Hunter Biden would be pardoned.

“There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution,” Biden wrote in a statement.

“In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough,” he added.

However, as soon the news was announced, speculation raged as to what made Biden change his mind.

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