Pardon My Hypocrisy And Dishonesty

I am not sure we have ever had a President that has displayed the amount of hypocrisy and dishonesty that Joe Biden has during his four years in office.

He is capping it off with the pardon of his son Hunter Biden for not only the crimes he has already been convicted of (gun charges and tax evasion) but any other crimes he might have committed back to 2014.

The pardon was given despite the fact that Joe Biden repeatedly stated that he would not pardon or reduce his son's sentence.

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-biden-repeatedly-said-210800273.html

Of course, Joe Biden previously told us that his son Hunter was "the smartest man that I know."

Biden was also adamant that Hunter "never did anything wrong" when asked about his son's questionable activities.

Hunter ultimately was convicted of a federal gun charge in a jury trial in June and pled guilty to tax evasion and fraud charges in September.

Hunter Biden was scheduled to be sentenced on both charges in the next two weeks which would undoubtedly have resulted in prison time.

Joe Biden must have determined he had to pardon his son now rather than wait until January 19, 2025 in order to insure his son did not spend even one day in prison.

Right after Hunter pled guilty to the tax evasion and fraud charges as the the trial was about to begin I predicted that you could count on a pardon being given to Biden's son.

The timing of the sentencing in the two cases is interesting coming after the election in both cases.

If Kamala wins, Joe will probably stand by his statement but a deal will have been made so that she has to do the dirty work when she takes office

If Trump wins, Joe will forget he ever made the statement. He is not going to allow the smartest man he knows to be put in a prison cell.

It goes without saying that it has been a very bad ending for both Joe and Hunter over the last several months.

Of course, the beginning of the bad ending began when Joe Biden dropped out of the Presidential race in July after claiming earlier that month that only the "Lord Almighty" could convince him to quit.

We are not sure to this day whether "the Lord Almighty" was Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer of a combination of the three.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl5y8n5d09qo

However, it is hard to not also consider many of the statements made by Biden going back over four years ago for other examples of hypocrisy and untruths.

How about this one?

Credit: https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1863329697263693897

Or these?

"The Hunter laptop is fake Russian disinformation."

"If you get the vaccine you will not get Covid".

"The Afghanistan withdrawal was a success".

"Inflation is transitory."

"The border is secure."

"Bidenomics is working".

"No one is above the law."

 Law Professor Jonathan Turley weighs in on X on what he thinks about Biden and the pardon.

All he sees are lies and denials with Biden.

As noted above, Biden's pardon of Hunter does not just involve the gun charge conviction and the tax evasion and fraud guilty plea.

It includes any other crimes that Hunter has committed or may have committed all the way back to January 1, 2014---a 11 year span.

Why is that significant?

First, Hunter became involved with Ukraine in early 2014.

Second, the general statute of limitations for most federal crimes is five years.

Why would Hunter need a general pardon going back ten years?

It is interesting to consider the federal crimes in which there is no statute of limitations.

Crimes that do not have a federal statute of limitations include capital murder, treason, espionage and sexual offenses against minors. Charges for these serious offenses can be filed at any time, regardless of when the crime occurred.

For context, in the long history of the United States there has never been a pardon given that was so broad and far-reaching. The only one that was even close was Gerald Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon but that pardon spanned only five years.

There are a few other interesting side notes in all of this.

Donald Trump was impeached by the Democrats for asking whether Ukraine had looked into investigating any potential crimes. Joe Biden just pardoned Hunter for any of those potential crimes.

Impeaching Trump for asking questions about Ukraine makes a lot more sense now when we see just how big the stakes were for Joe and Hunter Biden..

Perhaps we will one day find out exactly what really went on between Ukraine, the Bidens and other D.C. elites. And the cozy relationship Hunter (and Joe?) had with China.

Now that Hunter has been pardoned he cannot plead the 5th amendment if called to testify about his dealings in Ukraine, China and other places.  He may personally be immune from prosecution but others may be at risk. If Hunter is called to testify to Congress, or in a court of law about any of his dealings, he will be compelled to testify or be considered to be in contempt.

Will we see other pardons handed out by Biden in the last days of his Presidency?

Joe Biden's brother Jim might be high on that list. Who else will Biden protect? Will Biden pardon himself?

The Hunter Biden pardon and any other possible pardons given by Joe Biden are also going to make it much easier for Donald Trump to exercise the pardon power for January 6th protestors and any associates ( Roger Stone, Steve Bannon, Peter Navarro etc.) who were targeted by the Democrat lawfare machine. The difference---these people already had to serve their time.

I believe most people can understand why a father would want to do everything in his power to try to protect his son.

However, as I wrote in an earlier blog post, if Joe Biden was really a caring and compassionate father, who really wanted to protect his son, he never should have run for President in 2020 knowing what he did about his son's addiction issues and shady dealings.

Biden was selfish in running for President in 2020 putting himself ahead of his son.

Biden was just as selfish running for re-election in 2024 considering the nation's problems and his evident weaknesses in mind and body.

It is hard to believe that Nancy Pelosi was promoting the idea in August that Joe Biden should be added to Mount Rushmore as his legacy.

Source: https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/pelosi-wants-biden-added-to-mount-rushmore-

It was a laughable idea then. It is an incomprehensibly idiotic statement when viewed today.

The reality is that Biden's legacy will be defined by the astonishing amounts of hypocrisy and dishonesty during his term as President.

Alas, there is no pardon for hypocrisy and dishonesty.