The Real Criminal Here is Not Hunter Biden

 Joe Biden has now been proven to be one of the most if not the most dishonest and corrupt presidents in U.S. history. Using his troubled son as a bagman to enrich himself is beyond contempt.

For more than four months, Biden apologists, especially in the legacy media, have insisted that Joe Biden would never compromise his principles and pardon his son Hunter for crimes committed, crimes convicted, and crimes for which he is about to be sentenced. Others say it was inevitable that Joe would pardon Hunter to avoid being sent to prison if Joe had the power to stop it.

We have a different take on this. It all starts with who is the real criminal here.

It is very telling that Joe Biden’s “full and unconditional” pardon of his son Hunter extends back to January 2014, when Hunter Biden joined the board of Ukraine’s Burisma Energy when he was the sitting Vice President. Having no experience in the energy field and no understanding of the Ukrainian language—all board meetings were conducted in that language—Hunter was able to score a $1 million yearly payday. 2014 was also the year that the wife of former Moscow mayor Yury Luzhkov sent $3.5 million to an “organization” run by Hunter. Biden even bragged about getting the Ukrainian state prosecutor fired, holding up aid to the corrupt Ukrainian regime. (Remember, House Democrats impeached Trump for far less, over just a phone call.)

This was just the beginning of a strange, abusive relationship Hunter had with his father. Being drug-addled and barely capable of functioning at an adult level, Hunter was nonetheless dispatched by Joe to offer up “business interests” and “consulting” for politicians and businessmen of foreign countries known for their corruption. Hunter only had to utilize his last name as a door opener. After that, the “business” that he conducted was centered around access to his father, the sitting vice president of the United States, and at his bequest. You know, “the big guy.”

It was influence peddling that Hunter was selling. And the influence was Joe’s.

The cover-up of this notorious criminal enterprise was abetted by the legacy media, which swallowed the gigantic lie in its entirety. Although egregious and shameless, it masked the real scandal here—that numerous denials of Joe and Hunter “not being in business together” have been revealed to be not only false but indicative of the true nature of the Biden family’s influence-peddling grift.

By initiating a complicated financial shell game, moving cash from one account to another, Biden was hiding upwards of $20 million of payouts that the House Oversight Committee traced back to foreign sources. These payoffs found their way to multiple Biden family accounts. Foreign cash even wound up in an account belonging to one of Biden’s granddaughters.

You can’t make this up.

It was clear that these oligarchs were not paying drug-addicted Hunter for his business acumen, his impressive services, or his knowledge of international finance. Hunter was recruited by his father to leverage the power of the vice presidency in 2014 and use all of the vast resources of the U.S. to seek specific legislative outcomes that could be achieved through his office. All this was in exchange for millions of dollars in dirty money.

Joe Biden put his troubled son in front of corrupt foreign leaders knowing he had a terrible drug addiction and was completely out of control, spending lavishly on prostitutes, fast cars, and even firearms that he illegally obtained. Joe had to have known his son, even with his alleged sobriety, could relapse at any moment while traveling to shake down foreign politicians and businessmen on his behalf.

This entire sordid drama calls for more questions, such as who else knew of Biden’s family enrichment scheme? As the vice president under Obama, did the Lightbringer not know Biden was selling his influence to foreign entities? That the Biden family was so outrageously corrupt and out in the open, how could the entirety of the U.S. government intelligence and legal apparatus simply ignore what was happening?

We also wonder, now that the lies have been exposed, can Democrats convince their followers that they still represent the party of “justice, fairness, and moral superiority?” Is the “nobody is above the law” phrase still operational? Certainly not in the case of Hunter Biden.

Having lied to Democrat Party members for over a decade about the “decency” of Joe Biden and how he brings a sense of “normalcy” to the White House, do Democrats have even a shred of credibility among their members? Is it ironic to Democrat voters that their party impeached Donald Trump for merely inquiring about the criminal relationship Hunter had with Burisma Energy that Joe Biden just pardoned? Most egregious? Dan Goldman, who even CNN’s Brianna Keilar called out to his face for his absolute hypocrisy.

What has the world come to? Is CNN actually practicing journalism?

And to those who suggest that Biden should pardon Trump as a “magnanimous gesture” to unite the country, let us remind you that Trump is the victim of lawfare while Hunter is a genuine criminal who pled guilty to nine felony charges and was going to be sentenced in mere days. Trump will be exonerated on appeal; he needs no pardon. We would prefer that Biden continue pardoning his entire crime family to demonstrate what complete grifters he and his family are.

Once Joe Biden is finally out of office, what is to become of Hunter? His “bagman” status is over; his father has no presidential power. Will he relapse? His eleven-year retroactive pardon lasts through December 1, 2024, after which he will not have any legal protection for crimes committed after that date. It’s not very convincing to us that, after an entire adult life of drug use, fraud, perjury, human trafficking, and tax evasion, Hunter would live his life on the straight and narrow.

Hunter’s pardon is therefore only cold comfort; he will be forever known as the “princeling” that never was held accountable for his bad behaviors, the son of the most blatantly corrupt politician in American history, the barely competent degenerate crackhead whose father was more interested in personal enrichment than the well-being of his troubled son. That was proven beyond any doubt when Joe and “Dr.” Jill made the momentous decision to run in 2020. While successful four years ago, that decision now seems it will come back to haunt the Democrat Party for election cycles to come.

It’s uncertain whether congressional Republicans will subpoena Hunter to testify as to the details of the Biden grifting operation. But if they do, it appears likely that Hunter will no longer have Fifth Amendment protection as he cannot self-incriminate—he got an all-encompassing get-out-of-jail card from Dad. His pardon puts Hunter in a tough position; if he ignores the subpoena, he’s in contempt of Congress. If he lies on the stand, he commits perjury.

After January 20, 2021, he no longer has cover from the current Department of Justice (Biden’s DOJ) that sheltered him from the law for over a decade, especially over the last four years under Attorney General Merrick Garland (who could find himself in front of congressional committees after Trump takes office in January). The pardon has no upside for Hunter except to save him from going to prison over things of which he was already convicted and to which he had already confessed. The terms of his pardon from Dad were so broad that they even covered crimes for which Hunter has not yet been charged.

(This pardon inoculates Hunter from prosecution for just federal crimes. Could a state attorney general in a Republican state bring charges against Hunter in a local jurisdiction, especially where the funds were allegedly laundered? Does that tactic sound familiar? It’s exactly the same that Fani Willis employed to indict Trump on state election interference charges in Georgia, spurious charges that are now likely to be dismissed given her own prosecutorial misconduct.)

It’s nearly impossible to empathize with Hunter Biden, yet somehow, we do. He didn’t ask to be born into the Biden family with its dysfunction, infidelities, addictions, criminality, depravity, and contempt for anyone not named Biden. Hunter was Joe’s pipeline to millions of dollars in filthy money, using his office and taxpayer-funded resources to line his pockets.

And he did all of this knowing full well his son was a degenerate drug addict and out-of-control party boy. Hunter is so devoid of any sort of moral compass that he slept with his brother’s widow Hallie and got her addicted to crack as well. This was the kind of behavior that Hunter’s blanket pardon going back to 2014 completely erased.

For over a decade, Joe Biden sold out his country and used his troubled, drugged-out son as a bagman. What a selfish, disgraceful man, and what a horrible, greedy family.

But with the threat of unprecedented preemptive pardons for the likes of Dr. Anthony Fauci, General Mark Milley, Representative Liz Cheney, and others, the new Department of Justice led by Attorney General Designate Pam Bondi will have its hands full, especially incoming FBI Director Kash Patel. Thankfully, on January 20, 2025, to paraphrase former President Gerald Ford, the “long national nightmare” will be over. The stain of the Biden family can be erased from the presidency forever.

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Richard Truesdell is a former consumer electronics retail executive and automotive travel photojournalist. In the last 25 years, he has visited more than 35 countries on six continents. A former high school history teacher with a BA in Political Science from Waynesburg University, he is a lifelong Conservative moderate who has turned his thoughts and keyboard to political commentary and popular culture. A cross-section of his writings can be found here.

Keith Lehmann is a retired consumer electronics industry executive who has written extensively on technology, transportation, and international travel. Living in Southern California for over fifty years, he has first-hand exposure to societal and cultural happenings of the left and submits decidedly realism-based, Conservative viewpoints, much of which can be found on his Substack.

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