Hunter Biden’s Sweetheart Deal for His Crimes By Charles Taylor (Florida)
Hunter Biden, son of the US president, so-called, Joe Biden is facing tax and gun crimes, that would have lobbed anyone else behind bars. But, he only has to plea guilty and will be given a mere slap on the wrist. Hunter, as Tucker Carlson has pointed out, was not charged for influence peddling, such as his alleged role as an international bag man for the Biden family, which included a $10 million payment from Burisma to Hunter and Joe Biden, according to an FBI source. All that seems to be just business as usual under the present regime. It is what one would expect in what is now a Third World dictatorship, within a crumbling first world military-industrial complex.
“Tucker Carlson savaged the Biden family on Tuesday, hours after it was announced that Hunter Biden would receive a slap on the wrist - and would only be required to plead guilty to simple tax crimes and a gun charge, despite what many would say is obvious evidence that he's been acting as a foreign agent.
Carlson noted how none of the charges have to do with influence peddling - including Hunter's alleged role as an international bag man for the Biden family (alleged, of course), which included a $10 million payment from Burisma to Hunter and Joe Biden, according to an FBI source.
"Investigators had 'identified payments to Biden family members from foreign companies, while Joe Biden served as Vice President and after he left public office.'"
"So actually there was something there. It was a scandal," Carlson said. "Racketeering, money laundering, wire fraud. Those are some of the crimes the Bidens seem to have committed."
"Donald Trump had an idea, ‘they’ll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike on me look fair.’ Trump wrote that about two weeks ago," said Carlson. "And it turned out, those were prescient words. This morning, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to pretty much nothing. Biden pleaded to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and then entered a diversion on a federal gun charge. That’s it. As far as Merrick Garland’s justice department is concerned, Hunter Biden is done. There was no pre-dawn raid carried live simultaneously on CNN, there was no perp walk, no handcuffs, no press conference."
"Above all, there was no felony. Hunter Biden who broke federal gun laws can still carry a gun. It’s like it all never happened," Carlson continued.
According to the Washington Post, Hunter, 53, is expected to plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges of failure to pay in 2017 and 2018, for a combined tax liability of roughly $1.2 million. He'll also admit to illegally possessing a weapon after his 2018 purchase of a handgun - which will likely result in a 'diversion program' which would result in the removal of the gun charge if all of the program's conditions are met.
The former Fox News host also noted how the White House has dismissed the investigations as politically motivated and irrelevant to Joe Biden's presidency. He also questioned Hunter's source of income - highlighting his art sales and book deal, which Carlson implied could be tied to money laundering and influence peddling.
"If you didn't know what a virtuous person Hunter Biden was you might think it looked a lot like money laundering," said Carlson, referring to an interview he gave to ABC in 2019. "Two years after that interview, Hunter Biden was selling prints of his art -- and to be clear, just the prints, not the art itself - but effectively photocopies of it for seventy five thousand dollars a pop!"
"Apparently Hunter Biden moved five of these Repros in just days. That's $375,000 in less than a week for signed copies of your fake art.
"As for the paintings themselves, childish self-indulgent blots, those sold for half a million dollars a piece. So the question is; who bought them and why? It'd be interesting to know, there's a story there for sure, but of course we have no right to know."
https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/republicans-cry-foul-over-hunter-bidens-sweetheart-plea-deal/
“A chorus of Republican lawmakers raced Tuesday to condemn Hunter Biden’s plea agreement, in which the first son appears poised to avoid jail time for alleged tax and firearm violations.
As part of the deal, the 53-year-old will plead guilty to misdemeanor counts of willful failure to pay federal income tax for 2017 and 2018 and enter a pre-trial diversion on a felony gun possession charge, meaning that charge could be dropped if he meets certain requirements, per court documents filed in Delaware.
Prominent Republicans quickly contrasted the Biden scion’s treatment by federal prosecutors with that of former President Donald Trump, who was arraigned last week on a 37-count indictment stemming from his alleged classified document hoarding.
“Wow! The corrupt Biden DOJ just cleared up hundreds of years of criminal liability by giving Hunter Biden a mere ‘traffic ticket.’ Our system is BROKEN!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
An allied super PAC was even more forceful.
“As President Trump predicted, Biden’s Justice Department is cutting a sweetheart deal with Hunter Biden in order to make their bogus case to ‘get Trump’ appear fair. Meanwhile, Biden’s DOJ continues to turn a blind eye to the Biden family’s extensive corruption and bribery scheme,” Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for Make America Great Again Inc., said in a statement.
Earlier this month, Trump predicted, “They’ll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike on me look ‘fair.’”
On the Hill, many of Trump’s allies echoed similar sentiments at the news of the plea agreement.
“It continues to show the two-tiered system in America. If you are the president’s leading political opponent, the DOJ literally tries to literally put you in jail, give you prison time. If you are the president’s son, you get a sweetheart deal,” contended Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
“Now this does nothing to our investigation. It actually should enhance our investigation because the DOJ should not be able to withhold any information now,” added McCarthy, referring to an ongoing probe of the first son by the House Oversight Committee. “They should be able to provide Chairman [James] Comer with any information he requires.”
Comer (R-Ky.) himself decried the development as a “slap on the wrist.”
“Let’s be clear: the Department of Justice’s charges against President Biden’s son Hunter reveals a two-tiered system of justice,” he said in a statement. “Hunter Biden is getting away with a slap on the wrist when growing evidence uncovered by the House Oversight Committee reveals the Bidens engaged in a pattern of corruption, influence peddling, and possibly bribery.”
“These charges against Hunter Biden and sweetheart plea deal have no impact on the Oversight Committee’s investigation,” Comer added. “We will not rest until the full extent of President Biden’s involvement in the family’s schemes are revealed.”
“This is the epitome of the politicization and weaponization of Joe Biden’s Department of Justice as they give a slap on the wrist to President Biden’s son — a tax fraud and corrupt pay-to-play criminal,” House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) said in a statement.
“It’s never been more clear that we have a two-tiered system of justice when you have the son of the sitting President of the United States selling our country out to the highest bidder, laundering money, committing tax fraud, accepting bribes, illegally obtaining a firearm, and shamefully avoiding child support.”
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