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HockeyDad
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#421

Joe Biden will pardon Hunter after the election is over regardless of who wins. He can’t trust Kamala to do it because she was part of the coup.

ZRX1200
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#422

Is he angry enough to remember that though? Till January? That’s a lot of Hunter’s turbo powder.

RobertHively
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#423

North Carolina Agrees To Purchase Several Hunter Biden Paintings In Return For U.S. Aid

RALEIGH, NC — As disaster response efforts ramped up following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, North Carolina announced it had agreed to purchase several Hunter Biden paintings in return for U.S. aid.

While President Biden had already approved North Carolina's request to have the crisis declared a "major disaster" and authorized federal assistance, the state's leaders reportedly believed they would receive far more federal funding if they agreed to buy some of Hunter's paintings.

"We know how things work with this administration," said North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper. "While we're certainly grateful for the president's willingness to provide us with the assistance we desperately need after the storm, we know it's better once you grease a few palms and buy some Hunter Biden art. That's where the real money is."

Following in the footsteps of Ukraine and other foreign governments, North Carolina expressed hope that shelling out exorbitant amounts of money for Hunter's paintings would score a few points with "The Big Guy" and secure several hundred billion in federal aid.

"North Carolina will now get whatever they need," said an administration insider. "We were going to be nice and toss them a few million in federal money to help with the disaster cleanup, but once we heard they were buying some of Hunter's artwork, we knew what that meant. They want the big bucks. President Biden was happy to hear North Carolina was willing to play ball."

At publishing time, North Carolina leaders were also reportedly willing to appoint Hunter Biden to the boards of several powerful corporations in exchange for additional aid.

Mr. Jones
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#424

R.H. #423 post above...

L.M.A.O. !!!!

MY P.O.S. android won't let me copy and paste that post, to send to my lifelong Connecticut Yankee grad. School buddy who's lived in N.C. since the late 1980's ???

DrMaddVibe
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#425

Special Counsel Rejects Hunter Biden's Pardon, Files Scathing Rebuke In Court Case

Last night Hunter Biden's lawyers filed a motion to dismiss his California tax fraud case after Joe Biden issued a blanket pardon absolving him of all crimes committed over a 10 year period.

"The President’s pardon moots Mr. Biden’s pending and yet to occur sentencing and entry of judgment in this case and requires an automatic dismissal of the Indictment with prejudice," wrote Hunter's lawyer Abbe Lowell in the filing, adding that "this Court must dismiss the Indictment against Mr. Biden with prejudice and adjourn all future proceedings in this matter."

Special Counsel David Weiss isn't having it. In a Monday response in opposition, Weiss argued that "The defendant’s motion should be denied since there is no binding authority on this Court which requires dismissal."

"As a matter of past-practice in this district, courts do not dismiss indictments when pardons are granted," Weiss wrote - citing cases involving Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Joe Arpaio and Ollie North, Above the Law reports. "Instead, it has been the practice of this court that once an Executive Grant of Clemency has been filed on the docket, the docket is marked closed, the disposition entry is updated to reflect the executive grant of clemency, and no further action is taken by the Court."

Although Weiss purported not to have seen the pardon itself (which Lowell inexplicably failed to docket), he took particular umbrage at the suggestion that the prosecution was politically motivated, huffing that “The court similarly found [Biden’s] vindictive prosecution claims unmoored from any evidence or even a coherent theory as to vindictiveness.”

Judge Mark Scarsi of the Central District of California has taken no action, thus far. But in Delaware, Judge Maryellen Noreika said in a minute order that she intends to terminate the proceedings, and instructing the government to say by tomorrow if it objects to termination by dismissal. Presumably it does, although no objection has hit the docket as of this writing. -Above the Law

Hunter pleaded guilty to the tax charges earlier this year, after a Delaware jury found him guilty of lying about his drug use on a background check form used to purchase a firearm.

In Weiss' new filing, he writes:

"The defendant did not docket the pardon nor has the government seen it. If media reports are accurate, the Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy. But that does not mean the grand jury’s decision to charge him, based on a finding of probable cause, should be wiped away as if it never occurred. It also does not mean that his charges should be wiped away because the defendant falsely claimed that the charges were the result of some improper motive. No court has agreed with the defendant on these baseless claims, and his request to dismiss the indictment finds no support in the law or the practice of this district."

?si=ZCloPoq-PrSxiFA6 = 😳

DrMaddVibe
Herf-A-Holic

a year ago

#426

The Truth About the Growing Hunter Biden Pardon Scandal

Disillusioned Americans across the nation are still expressing their distaste at President Joe Biden’s granting a universal pardon to his convicted criminal son, Hunter, but after separating fact from fiction, there are potential downsides for the president and his family from the Hunter Biden pardon and an uncertain answer to how this power will be used in the future.

Understanding this growing scandal of Biden Family corruption requires understanding Hunter’s crimes as well as how presidential pardons work and how they don’t. Media stories have been hit-or-miss in explaining this scandal and have not yet discussed how this pardon could actually blow the doors open on every questionable event that involves anyone with the last name “Biden.”

Hunter’s sordid story reeks of corruption, political favoritism, and the worst practices of the Deep State. Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss tried to sneak in a sweetheart plea deal to get Hunter out of many of his self-inflicted legal woes. (Weiss was appointed by President Trump, but U.S. attorneys are effectively chosen by home-state senators, so Delaware’s two Democrat senators – faithful allies of Biden – blessed the selection of Weiss if they did not pick him outright.)

But Judge Maryellen Noreika – also appointed by Trump – smelled a rat, finding language buried in a secondary document that a judge often does not see that would close the door on any additional criminal charges, and she blew the lid off the whole scheme. She announced during a court hearing that she had never seen such a deal and asked the federal prosecutors standing before her if they had ever seen such wording hidden in such a secondary document. They admitted they had not.

Humiliated, Weiss then turned on a dime, bringing real charges against Hunter and taking them to trial. Even so, Weiss charged Hunter only with crimes that had no connection to President Biden. For example, there were no Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) charges, which would have gotten into why foreign powers were paying enormous sums of money to Hunter – and through him to the whole Biden clan – which would eventually lead back to quiet access Hunter provided to his ultra-powerful father.

Nonetheless, federal prosecutors pursued Hunter on these non-Joe crimes, and those prosecutors nailed him. Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced this month on two separate crimes.

First, he lied when he purchased a gun. When a person buys a firearm at a gun store he must fill out Form 4473 issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which among other things asks about using illegal drugs. It’s a felony to lie on that form, and Hunter – who is a graduate of Yale Law School – knows better and did so.

Second, he was charged with tax evasion, likewise scheduled for sentencing this month. The judge over that case – Mark Scarsi, also appointed by Trump – terminated all proceedings because of the pardon. But before doing so, he backhanded Joe Biden’s statement that that no reasonable person would prosecute Hunter, writing that the current president was saying the “legion of civil servants” at the Department of Justice (DOJ) involved in his son’s prosecution “are unreasonable people.”

That explains the timing of Hunter’s pardon. Issuing it on December 1 instead of January 19 or the morning of January 20 was necessary to keep the hammer from falling on Hunter. Joe could not wait until he was heading out the door next month.

But the wording of the pardon also raises eyebrows, covering any crimes that Hunter might have committed between January 1, 2014, and December 1, 2024 – almost 11 years. That’s a long time. Federal law at 18 U.S.C. § 3282 provides that the statute of limitations – meaning the deadline – to bring federal charges is limited to five years unless a specific criminal law specifies a different number of years. The timeframe in the pardon is very unusual in part because of this five-year default rule, leading one to question why Joe would want to cover Hunter for so many years.

It is worth noting that Hunter joined the board of Barisma Holdings – the infamous Ukrainian energy company – in April 2014. Hunter was given a seat on the board for close to $1 million a year for a no-show job, amazing because Hunter had no background in the energy industry and did not speak Ukrainian. This pardon would cover that entire period, prompting questions of what sort of backdoor dealings might have been going on.

Another fact worth noting is that Joe did not involve DOJ’s Office of the Pardon Attorney (OPA). Presidents receive a mountain of requests for clemency, so OPA administers that process, teeing up recommendations for the White House. Evidently Joe was not confident that OPA would conclude that Hunter deserved a pardon, so he avoided that additional negative press by ignoring DOJ altogether. He has the right to do so, but it just makes this look even more nakedly political.

Weiss is now officially protesting that the indictments against Hunter should not be dismissed, but his assertion should be looked at skeptically as likely a combination of crocodile tears and rope-a-dope. The president’s power to pardon these charges is essentially absolute, and Weiss should know perfectly well that any federal trial judge would immediately toss an ongoing case where the defendant has been pardoned.

Finally, Congress cannot limit presidential pardon power. The Constitution confers it directly on the president and specifies only that it cannot be used to overcome impeachments, so Congress has no power to limit the president’s use of it.

But there are some limits to presidential pardons, and more than one member of the Biden family might find out that this development could be a mixed blessing for the Bidens.

For one, a presidential pardon does not cover state crimes. (Or at least the courts have never held that it does, and from a federalism standpoint it would likely violate state sovereignty if the president – a federal officer – could unilaterally overthrow a state prosecution of a private citizen.) Criminals often do not contain their lawless behavior to discrete categories. Depending on the statute of limitations for state crimes, it is possible – unlikely, but possible – that between Hunter’s drugs and prostitutes and guns and shady associates that state charges could be brought on something.

For another – and this is a big one – Hunter can now be required to testify before Congress or in court. His sole defense against subpoenas thus far has been that he wanted to invoke his Fifth Amendment right not to say anything under oath that could incriminate him. Now that he cannot be charged for any federal crimes, he can no longer meet the legal threshold of showing a reasonable fear that answering questions would provide evidence that could be used in court to convict him of a crime.

Ironically, the only risk of prosecution he would face now would be if he does not tell the truth in testimony. If he refuses to testify, then he can be held in criminal contempt, which could put him behind bars. And if he testifies but lies under oath, that’s perjury, which is a felony punishable by five years in federal prison.

So now the bagman at the center of all the Biden Family corruption scandals cannot escape what could be hours of interrogation under oath. Peter Schweizer – easily the foremost researcher on the Bidens’ decades of enriching themselves – reminded readers this week of just how bad the family’s misdeeds over the years have been. Thus readers could want what finally comes to light to be confirmed.

Although the Bidens are now politically finished, the American people still deserve the truth, and that truth could shine a light on all sorts of things about all sorts of people that voters might want to know for the future, possibly involving other prominent Democrats.

Joe Biden is thus left with only one play: pardon everyone the Hunter Biden pardon scandal touches, including himself. He could close the door on federal prosecutions for all of those people going forward.

But there is one potential weakness for the current president under such a plan: It is unclear whether a president can pardon himself. The “Father of the Bill of Rights” in the Constitution, George Mason, openly worried that a president might abuse the pardon power by conspiring to commit crimes, then pardoning everyone including himself. Another Framer of the Constitution, Edmund Randolph, expressed a similar concern. They certainly believed a president could issue a self-pardon.

However, no president has done it, so no court has ever weighed in on it. There are serious arguments on both sides as to whether the president’s power reaches that far.

And the only way that theory could be tested is if he does so, and then the new Trump administration chooses to bring charges against Joe Biden. After the lawfare of the past four years, it is unclear whether the new Justice Department would go there. If not, even a non-existent power does exists as a practical matter if it goes unchallenged.

So President Joe Biden’s primary goal for his son will stand: Hunter will not be going to federal prison anytime soon. But there may be a price to pay for the Biden family, and it remains to be seen what this new precedent means for the future.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/12/04/the-truth-about-the-growing-hunter-biden-pardon-scandaltruth-hunter-biden-pardon/

Stogie1020
Herf-A-Holic Topic Starter

a year ago

#427

In a recent court filing, Hunter complained that ever since his dad left office, no one wants to buy his paintings and he is broke.

Spoiler alert Hunter, no one wanted to buy them before either. They were simply bribes, but you knew that.