If you wanted to measure the extent of the Biden family’s corruption, there are a lot of ways you could do it. You could take a look at the lavish properties Joe Biden has owned over the years, which seem a little out of place for a career “public servant” whose wife is a teacher. You could go back and watch those interviews in which Tony Bobulinski, the Biden family business partner, explained that, indeed, Joe Biden is “the big guy” for whom 10% of Hunter Biden’s overseas business profits would be directed, according to emails from Hunter’s abandoned laptop. You could recall the mad scramble by the intelligence agencies to pretend everything on that laptop was “Russian disinformation” — a lie that Biden himself repeated multiple times. You could pull up that video of Biden bragging about how he threatened to withhold more than a billion dollars of financial assistance to Ukraine’s government unless they fired their top prosecutor — who happened to be investigating Burisma, the oil company that was paying Hunter Biden a million dollars a year for a no-show job. As Biden put it: “If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money. Well, son of a b****, he got fired.” In the face of this overwhelming evidence, the Biden administration and its defenders attempted to maintain the lie that Joe Biden wasn’t complicit in anything his son was doing. They kept repeating that defense — even after photos emerged showing Joe Biden golfing with Hunter’s business associates, and even after we learned Joe Biden was on speakerphone as Hunter was conducting meetings with those associates. WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show Again and again, we were told to ignore what we could all see was happening. We were told to believe there was somehow a firewall between Biden and his son — and that, while Hunter may have been a degenerate, he wasn’t peddling influence. This political fiction had to be maintained so that Democrats could claim, with some degree of fake plausibility, that their prosecutions of Donald Trump were legitimate. They could go on MSNBC and claim that they’re the party that cares about the “rule of law.” Here’s one of Robert Mueller’s prosecutors, Andrew Weissmann, making that argument on MSNBC: Hey Andrew Weissmann, tell us more about Biden's character. We are going to have fun with LOTS of these fools who actually believed that Joe Biden wouldn't pardon his son because he is such an honorable man. ? pic.twitter.com/UyTacNAPgt — MAZE (@mazemoore) December 2, 2024 This fiction completely collapsed last night, with the president’s sweeping pardon of Hunter Biden. This is a pardon that’s so expansive, and so flagrantly self-serving, that it has no precedent in American history. It’s not just the fact that no president has ever pardoned his son before. This pardon excuses Hunter from prosecution for ANY federal crime that he may have committed or assisted with, in the time period from January 1, 2014 through yesterday, December 1, 2024.  Yes, that’s immunity for more than a decades’ worth of potential federal crimes — whether they’ve been charged or not. For comparison, when Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, he pardoned him for any crimes committed from 1969 to 1974, or a period of five years. That was, previously, the record-holder for the longest pardon by a president conferring blanket immunity. With this pardon, Joe Biden has prevented the incoming Trump administration from bringing any charges relating to Hunter Biden’s tenure at Burisma, the Ukrainian oil company. Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014, which is the first year covered by this pardon. Just two years later, at Joe Biden’s urging, Ukraine fired the prosecutor who was looking into Burisma. According to Biden family business associate Devon Archer, that prosecutor — whose name is Viktor Shokin — was a “threat” to Burisma. As Archer put it, “He ended up seizing assets of [Burisma’s owner] — a house, some cars, a couple properties. And [the owner] actually never went back to Ukraine after Shokin seized all of his assets.” And thanks to Joe Biden applying some pressure, that prosecutor was terminated. Those are facts that might naturally make you wonder whether Burisma was paying the Bidens in order to secure that result. That was certainly the thought that crossed Trump’s mind — and they impeached him [Trump] for it. He suggested, on a phone call, that maybe it’s not a good idea to send our money to a country that could be bribing the Bidens. And that was such a radioactive idea that they tried to have him removed from office. That was a pretty big hint that Trump was onto something. And those hints kept coming — especially after a longtime FBI informant named Alexander Smirnov claimed that Burisma had bribed the Bidens, to the tune of $10 million, in order to take out the prosecutor. The DOJ has accused that informant of lying as part of yet another Russian disinformation operation, which is extremely unusual because it’s the kind of thing that might discourage more informants from talking to the FBI. But in this instance, probably because of the political ramifications, Biden’s DOJ thought it was important to pursue the case. That would be an interesting series of events for Kash Patel and Pam Bondi to look into. But whatever they find, there’s no way they can prosecute Hunter at this point. That’s because, in one of his final acts as president, Biden has effectively become an accomplice to his son’s crimes — including crimes we may never know about.  You’d expect a lot of Democrats to run cover for this pardon. And indeed, that’s exactly what’s happening. But remarkably, some Republicans are defending it as well. They’re saying things like, “Any father in the same position would do the same thing.” Or “Any father, supposedly, would ensure that his 54-year-old drug-addled son doesn’t ever have to face criminal consequences for any crime he’s committed, no matter how serious it may be.” This is an argument that overlooks a few very important points. For one thing, Joe Biden and his administration have spent years lying to us about their intentions. They made material misrepresentations during a political campaign for the purposes of manipulating voters. So any sympathy we might have for Joe Biden is gone, simply on that basis alone. They’ve all said again and again that Hunter Biden won’t be pardoned. Watch: SURE THING, BIG GUY: Crooked Joe Biden insists he wouldn't pardon his son, Hunter, if he is found guilty in his criminal trial pic.twitter.com/IE5xLwexnV — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) June 6, 2024 Bold faced liars. That's all Democrats do. pic.twitter.com/9CQAKD7D40 — Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 2, 2024 No matter how much you want to defend Joe Biden for “looking out” for the crackhead he raised, you can’t justify lying like this. He knew it was false when he said it. So did his press secretary. They just knew they had to get through a campaign where they claimed to be on the side of “the rule of law,” so they lied about it.  In fact, Biden was equally shameless last night, in announcing this pardon. He didn’t do the honorable thing and admit he was just protecting his son. Instead, along with the pardon, Biden released a statement claiming that his son’s prosecution was “unfair” and “selective.” He suggested that the prosecution was only undertaken because he’s the president — even though the prosecution was conducted by Biden’s own DOJ, and despite the fact that the pardon covers Hunter’s activities from many years ago, when Biden was vice president. The statement reads: 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. … For my entire career I have followed a simple principle: Just tell the American people the truth. … 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. In other words, now that the election’s over, we’re not pretending the DOJ is fair and impartial anymore. Now we’re just admitting it’s a corrupt and political enterprise with no legitimacy whatsoever. If Biden actually believed any of this, he’d immediately pardon Donald Trump, as well as the January 6 defendants and the many pro-life activists who have been sentenced to lengthy prison terms for protesting at abortion clinics. He’d instruct Merrick Garland to drop the charges against the whistleblowers like Ethan Haim, who are being prosecuted for exposing the barbaric procedures being conducted at children’s hospitals in the name of “gender-affirming care.” Of course, none of that will happen, because Biden doesn’t believe a word of this statement. He’s a complete fraud, which is one of the reasons this is so indefensible. It’s also indefensible because he just gave his son a pass for every single one of the federal crimes he committed, or may conceivably have committed, over 11 years. Insulating your adult child from rightful consequences to that extent is, among other things, enormously bad parenting. As parents, our greatest duty is to help our children to develop virtue. Giving them a hall pass for federal crimes obviously does the opposite. You cannot become a virtuous person if you are insulated from any and all legal repercussions for any crimes you committed. A good father, a loving father, would not want to give that kind of get out of jail free card to his son. Any chance that Hunter would ever become anything but a scumbag has now been obliterated. He will live the rest of his life a scumbag and die a scumbag. Which, from the perspective of a loving parent, is a fate far worse than prison. But it’s not hard to see why Joe Biden’s doing it. He’s clearly pardoning Hunter, at least in part, to protect himself. That’s why this pardon is so unbelievably broad, both in scope and in length. Any prosecution of Hunter would almost certainly uncover more evidence of crimes committed by Joe Biden along with other Biden family members, as well. We know that because, just based on what we have already, there’s a lot of evidence that would seem to implicate those family members. For example, Senate investigators found that Hunter Biden “opened a bank account with” a deputy at CEFC, a Chinese energy firm that’s closely tied with the Chinese Communist Party. That bank account, according to Senate investigators, funded a $100,000 “spending spree” for the Biden family, including James Biden and his wife. These are the kind of payments that Senate officials were able to uncover with only a very limited ability to look into the Biden family. You can imagine what a full-fledged prosecution would uncover. But the Biden DOJ made sure that there would be no full-fledged prosecution of Hunter Biden. That’s why they slow-walked the investigation of his abandoned laptop. They wanted the statute of limitations to expire on as many crimes as possible. When the FBI seized Hunter’s laptop from the repair store, they sat on it for more than a year, until the New York Post finally published its story. And even then, the FBI told Facebook in advance that the story was probably Russian disinformation. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE By shutting down any prosecution of Hunter, it becomes much more difficult to relaunch any of these investigations, or to prosecute any other member of the Biden family — including the president. That’s another reason this pardon is indefensible, even for a father who’s trying to keep his son out of prison. At the same time, I’ll concede that this story would be completely different if Joe Biden had only pardoned Hunter for the gun and tax crimes. You could probably defend that. I’d pardon my kids for those kinds of “crimes,” if I had the power. But that’s not what Biden did. He pardoned him for all federal crimes, going back to a time that pre-dates those charges. That’s what makes this so outrageous and cartoonishly corrupt. The tax charges were always just a surface-level allegation that obscured the actual underlying corruption. It doesn’t really matter whether Hunter Biden paid taxes on all of his foreign money. What matters is what, exactly, that foreign money was buying. That’s the investigation that Joe Biden thinks he’s just shut down. But there are a few elements here that should mitigate our anger and frustration about this pardon. First of all, this is a clear win for the incoming Trump administration, politically. It’s more of a gift to Trump than Hunter. It gives Trump a political green-light to do what he should be doing anyway, which is to issue blanket pardons for all of the political prisoners of this administration. The pardon is also already leading to a lot of interesting moments on MSNBC, where an overwhelmingly Democrat-aligned audience is being forced to confront the fact that everything Democrats said for the past four years was a lie. Here’s one example: JUST IN: Joe Walsh turns on Joe Biden after he pardoned Hunter, says he is “deflated” because he spent years saying Trump was the “threat.” “This pardon is just deflating for those of us who’ve been out there for a few years yelling about what a threat Trump is.” “Nobody's… pic.twitter.com/4lHW6L6iIR — Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 2, 2024 A realization like this — as basic and as inauthentic as it is — still represents progress. This is the first time that a lot of Democrats watching MSNBC are realizing the extent to which they’ve been lied to. And that’s obviously a major win for Republicans. Additionally, this pardon might actually simplify future investigations into the Biden family (at least, until more pardons are announced). Now that Hunter can’t be prosecuted for any crimes, he can’t assert his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination, to avoid responding to subpoenas or testifying. Republicans in Congress and the DOJ can — and should — use that fact to their advantage. But the most consequential point is that, with this pardon, Democrats have once again proved their willingness to wield their power to the fullest extent possible, no matter how their opposition feels about it or what they say about it. Democrats are as ruthless as they are shameless. There’s no way to look at this pardon and come to any other conclusion. They will spend years telling you one thing, only to do another — all without any degree of remorse or self-awareness. They’ll extol the virtues of “the rule of law” and “democracy,” only to admit, on their way out the door, that actually none of that was ever remotely important to them. This is the lesson that Trump needs to keep at the front of his mind for the next four years, as Democrats repeatedly try to use conservatives’ values against us. That’s the strategy they’ve been using for many years, to great effect. And they’re going to keep on doing it. But now that Democrats have admitted they have no values themselves, there’s no reason for Trump — or any elected Republican — to listen to a word they say. And if most Americans come to that realization, then Hunter Biden’s pardon will probably, on balance, be a net positive — because it means that no family as corrupt and power-hungry as the Bidens will ever control the White House again.

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings absolutely tore into the current administration over the Sunday evening announcement that President Joe Biden had issued a sweeping pardon covering his embattled son Hunter for any and all federal crimes he may have committed over an 11-year period. Jennings’ criticism was primarily focused on the fact that President Biden — along with multiple people within his administration — had repeatedly and categorically denied that he would ever pardon Hunter. He also noted that Hunter’s pardon was not the only thing Biden and many others within the administration had lied about. Jennings responded to Daily Signal columnist Tony Kennett, who posted a list of falsehoods that came out of the Biden administration over the last several years: “It’s transitory inflation”; “Afghanistan was a success”; “The border is secure”; “Robert Hur lied. Biden is fine”; “Those videos are cheapfakes”; “Biden had jetlag”; “Biden had a cold”; “Biden isn’t going to be replaced”; “Biden isn’t going to pardon Hunter.” There has never been a bigger set of liars in this office than the Bidens. Not even close. The entire term. One after another. Over and over and over. And not on small petty stuff, either. https://t.co/L7GuWG1WX3 — Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 2, 2024 Jennings’ response was simple: “There has never been a bigger set of liars in this office than the Bidens. Not even close. The entire term. One after another. Over and over and over. And not on small petty stuff, either.” The Republican commentator also made his opinion abundantly clear during a CNN segment responding to the surprise pardon. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE “Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it and that’s why our government and our justice system is of, by and for the elites and nobody else,” Jennings said. “He ran to banish Trumpism from our political system in this country, and he has left it politically and now institutionally, the strongest possible political force in this country. It is a complete and utter failure by the head of the Democratic Party and the President of the United States.” Jennings went on to say that President-elect Donald Trump’s critics — many of whom have accused him of using political office for personal benefit as well as lying to the people — no longer had any ground from which to protest. “Never again do I want to hear, ‘Oh, Donald Trump’s a liar. You can’t believe anything he says. Donald Trump will abuse his power Donald Trump will only use the system to benefit himself and his family, and so on and so forth.’ Never again,” he said. Turning to fellow panelist Karen Finney, he added, “I have one question for Karen and that is why did he need an 11-year blanket pardon going back to 2014, when Joe Biden was the Vice President? We are sitting on the biggest cover-up of who knows what crimes and Joe Biden amazingly knows exactly, roughly when it started. He knows just about when it all started. He’s leaving office in complete and total disgrace. He is a liar and there is no other way to spin this today. This has nothing to do with Trump and everything to do with the character of Joe Biden.” WATCH: ?WATCH: CNN's @ScottJenningsKY absolutely NUKES President Biden from orbit for pardoning son Hunter: "Joe Biden is leaving office making the strongest possible case for Donald Trump that anybody could possibly make it and that's that our government and our justice system is… pic.twitter.com/nust80rJEC — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 2, 2024

President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter for his involvement in shady business deals, but the president’s own brother, Jim, was involved in many of those same deals. Joe pardoned Hunter on Sunday for any crimes “he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted (including any that have resulted in convictions).” The pardon dates back to 2014 – when Joe Biden was vice president of the United States – which might lead one to question whether there is another Biden family member who could be in legal jeopardy. In April 2014, Hunter was appointed to the board of a Ukrainian energy company despite having no qualifications. Even before that, however, Hunter was reportedly involved in business dealings with China. In 2017, Hunter and Joe’s brother James were pursuing a deal with a Chinese energy company, CEFC China Energy, along with a business associate, Tony Bobulinski. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE James was referred for criminal prosecution over his alleged lying about his involvement in this deal, The Daily Wire previously reported. James was interviewed during an impeachment inquiry and reportedly lied to investigators, according to the House Republican’s referral. “With respect to James Biden, he stated unequivocally during his transcribed interview that Joe Biden did not meet with Mr. Tony Bobulinski, a business associate of James and Hunter Biden, in 2017 while pursuing a deal with a Chinese entity, CEFC China Energy,” the referral letter said. “Specifically, James Biden stated he did not attend a meeting with Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Tony Bobulinski on May 2, 2017 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. These statements were contradicted not only by Mr. Bobulinski, but Hunter Biden. Mr. Bobulinski also produced text messages that establish the events leading up to and immediately following his meeting with Joe Biden on May 2, 2017.” In 2022, it was reported that Hunter and James had more than 150 transactions involving their global business dealings that were flagged as concerning by U.S. banks. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) told CBS News at the time that he believed James was heavily involved in Hunter’s business ventures in China, telling the outlet, “I think James Biden was very much a part of this.” Though Grassley wouldn’t say that the Bidens had committed any crimes by receiving millions of dollars from China, he did find it “very concerning.” “We have people with the Biden name, dealing with Chinese business people that have a relationship to the Communist Party,” Grassley said at the time. The bank records were part of a years-long investigation into Hunter and James’ business records – an investigation that began in 2014. Hunter is set to be sentenced for federal gun crimes, which is likely why he was pardoned on Sunday by his father. James Biden isn’t facing imminent prosecution or sentencing, so President Biden could wait before issuing a similar pardon for his brother.

Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD), who was elected in November to serve as the next Senate Majority Leader when the new Congress is sworn in next month, signaled on Monday that Congress will continue investigating corruption involving the Biden family after President Joe Biden pardoned his son this week. “President Biden repeatedly lied to the American people,” Thune said in an exclusive statement to The Daily Wire. “His ‘full and unconditional’ pardon for his son, which covers time when President Biden was a private citizen, raises further questions about the extent of Hunter Biden’s crimes.” “This pardon, and the repeated lies the president and his administration told about it, will be a shameful bookend to President Biden’s tenure in office, and I would be supportive of Congress continuing to look into allegations of corrupt behavior,” he added. Thune’s statement comes after President Biden granted a “full and unconditional pardon” for his son, convicted felon Hunter Biden, of all crimes “he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.” CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Hunter Biden was convicted in June of three federal felonies related to an illegal purchase of a firearm in 2018, including lying to a federally licensed gun dealer, lying on a federal background check form by falsely claiming that he was not a drug user, and being in illegal possession of a firearm. He subsequently pled guilty in September in federal court to three felony tax offenses and six misdemeanor tax offenses. The Department of Justice said, “Hunter Biden engaged in a four-year scheme in which he chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in self-assessed federal taxes he owed for tax years 2016 through 2019 and to evade the assessment of taxes for tax year 2018 when he filed false returns.”

The hosts of ABC’s “The View” — with one exception — celebrated President Joe Biden’s surprise decision to issue a blanket pardon to his embattled son Hunter, absolving him of any and all federal crimes that he may have committed over an 11-year period. Co-host Whoopi Goldberg began the conversation during Monday’s broadcast — less than 24 hours after the White House announced that the pardon was coming — and she dismissed criticisms of the move by saying it was simply “a president’s prerogative” and should not matter because “we have a convicted felon as president.” WATCH: Alyssa Farah Griffin says that this proved to Americans "that there's a different set of rules for folks in power."She also hints that she was stopped by ABC from asking Biden on the show if he planned to pardon Hunter, she calls him out for "lying to the public" about it. pic.twitter.com/kS3a0ZYHKR — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 Co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin — the odd woman out — argued that Biden’s historically unprecedented decision to pardon his own son gave credence to critics who said there was a different justice system for the elites. She also suggested that she had wanted to ask Biden about a potential pardon for Hunter when he was on the show in recent weeks but was pushed away from doing so by the network. CHECK OUT THE DAILY WIRE HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE Co-host Sunny Hostin suggested that there was no fault in the pardon itself — and that the hypocrites were the people who believed Biden was abusing his power by granting it. She also reverted to Goldberg’s argument, suggesting that because the American people had elected “a convicted felon” like Trump, Biden’s abuse of power no longer mattered. WATCH: Hostin blames Trump for Joe Biden lying about pardoning Hunter: "I think one of the reasons why he didn't admit it earlier because he didn't know the felon-in-chief would become the next president."Whoopi tries to cut off the conversation about Joe being a liar. pic.twitter.com/XBlGgfBx99 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 Hostin also argued that Biden wasn’t really lying about not pardoning Hunter, claiming that he had intended not to until Trump was elected. “I think one of the reasons why he didn’t admit it earlier was because he didn’t know the felon-in-chief would become the next president,” she said. Ana Navarro weighed in next, referring to Hunter as Biden’s “only surviving son” and saying she had been personally lobbying Biden to pardon Hunter for some time. WATCH: Speaking to Hunter, Navarro boasts: "Hunter, your dad has given you a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and taking this weight off your shoulders.""I hope now Hunter gives his dad a gift, the gift of being a good son, a good father," she adds.Hunter abandoned his daughter pic.twitter.com/uiRgroyOab — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 “Hunter, your dad has given you a great, great gift, the gift of freedom, and taking this weight off your shoulders,” Navarro continued. “I hope now Hunter gives his dad a gift, the gift of being a good son, a good father.” Navarro left out the fact that Hunter Biden has a child he hardly acknowledges. Goldberg backtracked to defend Biden again for reneging on his promise not to pardon Hunter, arguing, “I think Biden had no intentions of pardoning Hunter,” until Trump was elected. WATCH: Whoopi RAGES at people upset about Joe pardoning Hunter:"He's the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants to… I can't believe this is what's freaking people out! …What's good for the goose is good for the gander. We're moving on." pic.twitter.com/JkequKrwLH — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 2, 2024 “He’s the president, the sitting president, and he can do whatever he wants to,” Goldberg scolded, adding, “I can’t believe this is what’s freaking people out!”

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