You do not live under a rock, and therefore you’re aware that the profligate liar and shameless corruptocrat Joe Biden has now pardoned his son Hunter for “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in” between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1 of this year. That Jan. 1, 2014, date corresponds with Hunter’s appointment to the board of Burisma, the mobbed-up Ukrainian natural gas company that paid the younger Biden six or seven figures of filthy lucre in return for influence and political protection from the man Barack Obama put in charge of U.S. foreign policy toward Ukraine. And you’re aware of where that has led us, which is to the brink of World War III over an underdeveloped kleptocratic backwater country in Eastern Europe with a marginal connection to American national interests that has nonetheless broken the modern record for U.S. foreign aid amid a war with Russia that will almost certainly be ended early next year on terms cruelly near identical to those that might have been had in April of 2022. That was the time when Joe Biden dispatched then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Ukraine to scuttle a peace settlement and keep the Ukraine war going, at the cost of literally more than a million lives. Joe Biden said he would never pardon his son for any of his myriad crimes — FARA violations, tax evasion, fraud, conspiracy, racketeering, probably sex trafficking, and of course the violation of federal gun laws for which he was convicted when he lied on a required form about his drug addiction. Joe Biden said it again and again, and those pathetic parrots of the Propaganda Press vomited those lies forth over and over again, incessantly, as 2024 dragged along. One of the best supercuts ever. President Biden won't pardon Hunter because Joe Biden is a man of great character! pic.twitter.com/lM8aTRGrq5 — MAZE (@mazemoore) December 2, 2024 But there is a golden lining to this blanket pardon Joe Biden has shamelessly showered upon his son. Which is that Hunter Biden no longer has Fifth Amendment protection when it comes to his criminal, er, commercial activities over the past decade. And with a new Congress about to be seated, and a new and very different management of the Justice Department, this fact should be utilized to strike a blow for accountability and honesty in government. We need a full-on congressional inquisition into the Biden crime family’s campaign of influence-peddling and corruption, and that inquisition must build on the work the Biden impeachment inquiry has already done. But this time, Hunter Biden and his uncle James, the younger brother of the president who will almost assuredly also be pardoned now, need to be subpoenaed. Hunter, and soon James, must answer to that inquisition. Questions must be asked of them and their cooperation must be enthusiastic and candid. After all, in Hunter’s case — and, soon, in James’ case as well — whatever crimes were committed as part of their influence-peddling operations are no longer prosecutable. And prosecution should not be the aim of this inquisition. Rather, it must be targeted toward informing a round of legislation that eliminates the kind of influence-peddling and corruption that is utterly widespread in Washington, D.C., and now threatens the very integrity of our system of government. We speak here of Our Democracy, this amorphous entity the pathetic parrots of the Propaganda Press have so glorified while attempting to defend the Deep State dystopia that the Bidens have presided over for the past four years. We know now that Our Democracy is neither a democracy nor is it ours; it’s an oligarchy for the benefit of nepots like Hunter Biden and corrupt cronies like Marc Elias, who can openly flout the law without any consequences while those who dissent or challenge their dominance can have the full weight of the federal leviathan brought down on their heads. Our Democracy is perfectly embodied in the blanket get-out-of-jail-free card given to Hunter Biden on Sunday, far less delivered out of fatherly love and far more as a barrier to the kind of open accountability for The Big Guy’s bagman. And it’s time for Our Democracy to face the kind of sunlight that actual democracies can withstand. Congress can’t legislate without the truth being laid bare, and so there must be an inquisition into corruption within and surrounding the federal government. And no inquisition into corruption of the system can be had without a full and candid vetting of the Biden family business. A free and open republic cannot survive if the families of influential politicians can sell out America’s interests for sweaty rolls of dollar bills without consequences. So let’s haul Hunter into those hearings, and let’s have him tell us what influence was actually peddled. I’m particularly curious about the millions of dollars he supposedly procured from Romanian interests. What could possibly have underlaid that? Were the Romanians cutouts for someone? Who? Was it perhaps the Mexican cartels? If so, the abandonment of our southern border to sex traffickers, slavers, and dealers of death in the form of fentanyl would suddenly make a sickening amount of sense. It has always seemed like simple cheap labor and the prospect of one day getting a more Democrat-friendly electorate couldn’t fully explain the surge of fentanyl and sex slavery across that border; but if those horrors were purchased for a few million dollars, we would arrive at something as banal and predictable as it is horrific. I’m not saying this is what happened. I’m saying we must have a full accountability. Biden said in his pardon announcement that he wants to protect Hunter from the raw politicization of the justice system he sees coming under the Trump administration. That’s awfully rich after what he’s done to this country for the past four years. And that it came just a day after Trump announced Kash Patel as his nominee for the job of FBI director can’t be overlooked. Not that anyone should believe the pardon wasn’t coming. It was always coming. It surprised no one. The denials, parroted by the liars of the legacy corporate media, were the surprising bit, so shameless were they. This can’t be taken lying down. It must go under the microscope. We must have a full restoration of governmental ethics in Washington with its centerpiece being the prevention of this kind of graft and influence-peddling. And Hunter must be made to cooperate, on pain of imprisonment on the same contempt-of-Congress charge that Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were locked up by the Biden DOJ. Transparency and accountability are preferable to Our Democracy. Let’s have those as soon as possible. And let’s thank Joe Biden for clearing the way to them. READ MORE: What Was the Matt Gaetz Attorney General Pick Really About? Can Musk Dismantle the Deep State? Isn’t It Time for Jasmine Crockett to Shut Up? The post Well, Then, by All Means, Let’s Put Hunter Under Oath Now appeared first on The American Spectator | USA News and Politics.