Hunter's "Justice"

Hunter Biden is a family member at the pinnacle of the Democrat elite. As such, he knows he is protected by the deep state, the DoJ and the law enforcement agencies who work for them. And because he knows this, Hunter has made millions upon millions of dollars from foreign companies that seemed to think he was an expert on things he knows nothing about. In reality, Hunter promised them access to his father and the influence his father wielded. Hunter Biden's connections have enriched not only Hunter, but many other members of the Biden family. It appears that they have also enriched the "big guy"—Joe Biden himself. Even more important than that, it appears that the FBI and the DoJ have slow-walked an investigation of Hunter Biden and limited it so that it would not extend and uncover corruption on the part of Joe Biden himself. Bank records, emails, text messages, whistleblowers, and the personal testimony of people who witness all of this be damned, the deep state had decided that Hunter will skate.

It is true that the DoJ recently announced that Hunter Biden will plea out to tax evasion misdemeanors and one felony charge arising from falsifying a gun permit. He's a crack addict, so we have to be understanding of these minor oversights. 

Meanwhile, the president's many defenders in the propaganda media can now state that he has faced "justice" like any other American. Seriously?

Law Professor Jonathan Turley quipped, "This is gonna look like you ticketed the getaway driver after a bank robbery."

Nah, it more like charging a terrorist bomber with littering the sidewalk outside the bombed building.

Hunter Biden is the bag man, but the real story is Biden family corruption and whether Joe Biden accepted $5 million as a bribe for ... some unknown area of influence. Ukraine? China? The list is long.

Nonetheless, it appears that the FBI under Merrick Garland (you know, the guy who Barack Obama recommended for SCOTUS) has decided that any investigation into Hunter's financial dealing with foreign entities would lead indirectly via shell company after shell company and then to father Joe. And that would be unpleasant. So ... they limit the FBI investigation to Hunter's tax returns and a gun permit and then give him a slap on the wrist when the rest of us would face jail time.

Sanctimonious Democrats argue, "No one is above the law ..." when they talk about the unprecedented prosecution of an ex-President over a document dispute and its aftermath. It's all about obstruction of justice, they solemnly intone. Maybe they should append the following phrase, "... when you're member of the opposition party who represents a threat the Democrat power or narrative, otherwise ... nope."

UPDATE (06-22-2023):

It appears that the Democrats are "very concerned" about fishing trips and jet rides offered 15 years ago to GOP appointed SCOTUS justices, but are totally unconcerned about a major on-going bribery scandal investigation that has been quashed by another SCOTUS nominee who thankfully never made it to the court—Merrick Garland. As AG, Garland misleads the public by telling us that the Biden investigators had free rein to go wherever the facts lead. Heh—reliable whistleblowers within the DoJ and IRS say differently.

Kim Strassel reports:

Mr. Shapley, leader of an elite team of agents specializing in international tax investigations, was brought in as supervisor of the Hunter case in January 2020. He says he quickly was stopped from taking normal investigatory steps. One example: He says his team was told in September 2020 by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lesley Wolf that they couldn’t pursue a search warrant of Joe Biden’s guest house (Hunter’s onetime residence) because of the “optics” and because “there is no way we will get that approved.”

In December 2020 the team wanted to search a storage unit in Virginia where Hunter had moved business documents. Ms. Wolf again objected, then tipped off Hunter’s defense counsel, “ruining our chance to get to evidence before being destroyed, manipulated, or concealed,” Mr. Shapley said. Federal Bureau of Investigation headquarters also tipped Hunter’s Secret Service team to a proposed “day of action” in which members of U.S. Attorney David Weiss’s team intended to conduct surprise interviews of witnesses—including Hunter. This gave a group “close to Hunter” the opportunity to “obstruct the approach,” and of the “12 interviews we hoped to conduct on our day of action, we only got one substantive interview.” Hunter lawyered up.

Along the way, according to Mr. Shapley’s testimony, Ms. Wolf told investigators not to ask any questions about “dad” or “the big guy.” They were blocked from pursuing leads about the financial transactions of Hunter’s children, since she said they’d get “into hot water if we interview the president’s grandchildren.” They were ordered not to look into evidence of campaign-finance violations. They were told to take Hunter’s name off official document requests, which Mr. Shapley said was “absolutely absurd.” The second whistleblower told the committee that he became “sick of fighting to do what’s right.”

The IRS team nonetheless prepared a document in late 2021 covering tax years 2014-19, in which it recommended charging Hunter with felony tax evasion, felony false tax returns, and failures to pay tax. Mr. Shapley says this was partially based on Hunter’s “textbook” tax evasion of declaring his income from the Ukrainian firm Burisma as a “loan.” Mr. Shapley says the team was also looking into a Foreign Agents Registration Act case.

According to Mr. Shapley, the Weiss team was prepared to pursue these charges but was blocked by Biden appointees—despite Attorney General Merrick Garland’s public claim of Mr. Weiss’s independence. 

You'd think there'd be teams of reporters from the NYT and WaPo, CBS, NBC and others rushing in to investigate this, blowing this scandal wide open (and likely leading to the threat of impeachment of Biden (and maybe Garland), unless Biden withdraws from the 2024 race). You'd think wrong.

The actions of Biden's team are so blatant, it's shocking. Their in-your-face obstruction of justice makes anything that their nemesis, Donald Trump, did in the now infamous "Documents Scandal" look like a speeding ticket. Note that Trump has been accused by Biden's DoJ with 37 counts of felony wrong-doing. There has yet to be any meaningful indictment (a plea deal doesn't count) of anyone associated with the Biden family grift.