Summary
President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden, reversing his prior stance against using executive clemency.
The pardon covers Hunter’s federal gun conviction and tax evasion guilty plea, sparking political controversy.
Biden cited political attacks and a “miscarriage of justice” as reasons for his decision, emphasizing his son’s recovery from addiction and the targeting of his family.
Critics argue the move undermines the judicial process, while supporters view it as within Biden’s constitutional powers.
This decision shields Hunter from potential prison time as Biden nears the end of his presidency.
yeah it can happen to anybody. sometimes you just forget to pay $1.4M you owe in taxes from the millions of dollars of dubious payments from overseas organizations (Burisma Holdings) owned by Russian oligarchs (Mykola Zlochevsky) that just happened to be investigated, tried and convicted of corruption
you know what message this sends to us plebs? they can do whatever the fuck they want. all we can do is sit and watch
That’s not what he was convicted of. It was for buying a gun. That’s a bullshit witch hunt. If it was for tax evasion I would be more upset.
He pled guilty. Read more: https://www.justice.gov/sco-weiss/pr/robert-hunter-biden-convicted-three-felony-tax-offenses-and-six-misdemeanor-tax-offenses
He was playing money and tax evasion games. Getting millions of dollars of payments from a sketchy sources in Eastern Europe through his law firm and then what would be called embezzling from his company under different circumstances
This is not normal people behavior. This is most likely the tip of the iceberg. It’s actually a nice little sneak peek into how much money flows between different oligarchs (including US ones) through these sketchy illicit channels
This guy absolutely is a criminal. There’s no question about it. The trial probably is politically motivated too.
You’re right. Knowing this is about tax evasion, it does piss me off a little now
But if you are mad about this, how come you weren’t mad when Treason Trump pardoned Rob Blogorovich which was a hugely bigger deal? He was a Democrat which means Trump did that for the sole purpose of normalizing corruption.
why the whataboutism? why the compulsive need to downplay the severity of this?
yes, trump is a criminal too. and he has pardoned criminals and will likely pardon more criminals.
If the law truly means nothing, then may it be exposed as such and may all do as they will.
Mykola was convicted before Hunter got involved.
But since you believe this actually matters for some reason, what did Jared Kushner get 2 billion dollars from Saudi Arabia for after being appointed national security advisor to the president (against intelligence advisement) and given sci top secret clearance?