“The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption President Biden and the Biden Crime Family lied about to the American people.”
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — Hunter Biden was scheduled for sentencing in his conviction on three Federal Gun Charges just 10 days from now, on December 12th, and on December 16th after his guilty plea to nine Federal Tax Evasion Charges prior to being pardoned Sunday by his 82-year-old father-president near the end of a controversial presidential term that will now ensure Hunter Biden spends no time in federal prison.
President Biden pardoned his son after repeatedly promising to stay out of his long-standing and complex international criminal cases. The pardon allows Hunter to sidestep the fate that awaits ordinary Americans in his position: sentencing for illegally purchasing a gun and failing to pay his taxes.
Presidential pardons are absolute and cannot be overturned by the courts or Congress.
Had Hunter Biden been pardoned at the conclusion of his trial in Delaware on federal gun charges, it would have erupted into a political headache for his father, who was running for reelection.
Hunter Biden was staring down a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison and a $750,000 fine in the gun case.
Hunter Biden was found guilty on two charges of making a false statement in the purchase of a gun by saying he was not an “unlawful user of substances or addicted to controlled substances.”
Hunter Biden was found guilty on two charges of making a false statement in the purchase of a gun by saying he was not an “unlawful user of substances or addicted to controlled substances.”
He was also found guilty on a separate charge of possession of a firearm by a person addicted to drugs.
In the tax case, Hunter Biden pled guilty to three felony tax offenses related to his failure to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes. The guilty plea was entered just days before jury selection was supposed to start in a Los Angeles federal courtroom.
The tax charges carried a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. He would have likely received far less than the maximum sentence because he is a first-time offender.
The tax charges carried a maximum sentence of 17 years in prison. He would have likely received far less than the maximum sentence because he is a first-time offender.
President Biden’s decision to give his son Hunter a get-out-of-jail-free card undermines Democrats’ attempt to claim the moral high ground on debates over gun laws and taxes.
“President Biden is a hypocrite,” said Philip Van Cleave, head of the Virginia Citizens Defense League. “There are plenty of Americans in prison for doing exactly what Hunter Biden did.”
“It makes a mockery of the Democrats’ argument that everybody else should pay higher taxes – when their own children decide not to pay taxes,” Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, said the pardon “is an affront to all the people who have been convicted and or served prison time for falsely filling out the same federal form that Hunter Biden did.”
“It makes a mockery of the Democrats’ argument that everybody else should pay higher taxes – when their own children decide not to pay taxes,” Grover Norquist, founder and president of Americans for Tax Reform.
Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep & Bear Arms, said the pardon “is an affront to all the people who have been convicted and or served prison time for falsely filling out the same federal form that Hunter Biden did.”
The pardon is a major reversal for President Joe Biden, who has for years – and particularly in recent months – repeatedly insisted that there was no wrong-doing and that he would not use his presidential powers to pardon his son or commute his sentences.
“I will not pardon him,” Mr. Biden said in June after a Wilmington jury found him guilty on three federal gun charges.
As recently as last week, the White House insisted that Mr. Biden would not issue clemency for his son.
Earlier this month, when pressed on the issue, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is ‘no.’”
As recently as last week, the White House insisted that Mr. Biden would not issue clemency for his son.
Earlier this month, when pressed on the issue, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre responded, “We’ve been asked that question multiple times. Our answer stands, which is ‘no.’”
Republicans who have long argued that Hunter Biden was receiving favorable treatment from the Justice Department because of his father’s political clout, now have the evidence to back up and substantiate such claims.
House Oversight & Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) who has for years been investigating a myriad of Biden family business dealings, including Hunter Biden’s questionable dealings with foreign officials, said the pardon was an effort to escape accountability.
He said Mr. Biden lied about the scope of the business dealings – and his promise not to pardon Hunter Biden.
“The charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people,” said Comer.
“It’s unfortunate that rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can do to avoid accountability.”
“It’s unfortunate that rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can do to avoid accountability.”
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH,) said on X that the Democrats howled and impeached Mr. Trump during his first term for asking Ukraine to look into Hunter Biden’s business dealings.
“Democrats said there was nothing to our impeachment inquiry. If that’s the case, why did Joe Biden just issue Hunter Biden a pardon for the very things we were inquiring about?” he wrote.
Rep. Greg Stanton, an Arizona Democrat, became the first House member of Mr. Biden’s Democrat Party to criticize the pardon.
“I respect President Biden, but I think he got this wrong.
“This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” Stanton wrote on X.
“This wasn’t a politically-motivated prosecution. Hunter committed felonies, and was convicted by a jury of his peers,” Stanton wrote on X.
Roughly one hour after Mr. Biden’s pardon, Hunter Biden’s legal team filed notices with the courts in both criminal cases saying the action “moots Mr. Biden’s pending, and yet to occur sentencing, and entry of judgement in this case and requires an automatic dismissal of the indictment with prejudice.”
“It reminds all voters of what they already knew – that Democrats like tax increases on them, and they view the American people the way the shepherd views his flock – as something to be sheered,” said Norquiest.
“I think it's fair to point out that the president and Democrat politicians believe that paying taxes is an important thing for other people to do,” he said.
“I think it's fair to point out that the president and Democrat politicians believe that paying taxes is an important thing for other people to do,” he said.
Hunter Biden was prosecuted on nine federal tax charges in California for failing to pay more than $1.4 million in taxes – much of it on the money he earned from lucrative influence-peddling overseas deals that Republicans maintain derived from selling influence and trading on his father’s name over the past decade.
He pled guilty in September.
Hunter Biden also was convicted in June on three felony charges related to the 2018 purchase of a gun where he lied on a mandatory gun-purchase form by saying he was not illegally using or addicted to drugs.
“It makes a mockery of the Democrats’ argument that everybody else should pay higher taxes – when their own children decide not to pay taxes,” said Norquist.
