This episode is presented by Create A Video – After promising not to pardon his son, Hunter, President Joe Biden did exactly that. The sweeping immunity is designed to prevent prosecution on any of the corruption that involve virtually the entire Biden family.
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[00:00:28] I am utterly disappointed. So disappointed. Just when you start believing, the people you trust, they just obliterate that trust. Talking about the Panthers, what the? That shit. I can't even. Oh, well. Oh, yeah. Also, the president pardoned his son. Completely expected that one, though.
[00:00:57] So, yeah, let's get to it. I've got the statement from Joe Biden, and I've got the actual executive grant of clemency that was signed. So I'll start there.
[00:01:16] To all, sorry. To all to whom these presents shall come greeting. I don't know if that's like the standard way you start one of these things. It looks like a letter or something. But to all to whom these presents. And that's like present, like like a gift. These presents shall come greeting.
[00:01:39] Be it known that this day, I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., president of the United States, pursuant to my powers under Article 2, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Constitution, have granted unto Robert Hunter Biden a full and unconditional pardon.
[00:01:53] For those offenses against the Constitution, which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period of January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.
[00:02:09] I'm sorry that he said January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.
[00:02:19] It's like a decade, right? That's like the whole year.
[00:02:24] 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23. Yeah.
[00:02:30] That's like it's a decade.
[00:02:32] That's 11 years.
[00:02:34] December 1, 20. Yeah, it's like it's like just shy of 11 years.
[00:02:39] Including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted, including any that may have resulted in convictions by special counsel David C. Weiss in docket number 123 CR 00061-MN in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware and docket number 223 CR 000599-MCS1 in the United States District Court of the Central District of California.
[00:03:05] So the gun charge out of Delaware and the failure to pay taxes out of California.
[00:03:17] In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name and caused the pardon to be recorded with the Department of Justice done at this city of Washington this first day of December in the year of our Lord 2024 and of the independence of the United States the 249th.
[00:03:33] Okay.
[00:03:37] So the offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from 2014 through 2024, this decade-long window, including but not limited to.
[00:03:54] That's the key part here.
[00:03:56] So he lists the gun case and he lists the tax evasion case.
[00:04:05] But it is not limited to only those cases.
[00:04:09] It is a get-out-of-jail-free card for any crime he may have committed and of note had Hunter Biden gone out last night prior to, well, December 1, like right before, so this would have been yesterday before it takes control, like in the four hours after it was noticed and then it became effective.
[00:04:38] He could have gone out and murdered a bunch of people and it would have been okay.
[00:04:43] Because he had a pardon for this like three or four hour window, like, okay.
[00:04:48] So here's the statement that was released from President Joe Biden.
[00:04:55] Quote,
[00:04:59] Hunter.
[00:05:01] Today I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.
[00:05:04] From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department's decision-making and I kept my word, even as I have watched my son being selectively and unfairly prosecuted.
[00:05:17] Always the victim.
[00:05:19] Always the victim.
[00:05:21] Never the villain.
[00:05:22] Despite a laptop filled with incriminating evidence, Hunter Biden is the victim.
[00:05:33] And Joe Biden is the victim.
[00:05:36] Without aggravating factors like use in a crime, multiple purchases, or buying a weapon as a straw purchaser, people are almost never brought to trial on felony charges solely for how they filled out a gun form.
[00:05:48] Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties are typically given non-criminal resolutions.
[00:05:58] It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.
[00:06:02] Wait, if I recall, what, didn't he pay all of the stuff back only after he got caught?
[00:06:08] Wasn't that?
[00:06:10] Also,
[00:06:12] that would be up to the judge to determine.
[00:06:15] But
[00:06:16] Joe didn't even wait for the judge to issue the sentences.
[00:06:20] How do you know that these were unfair convictions?
[00:06:22] You're saying he shouldn't have been convicted with them at all?
[00:06:26] Remember, the plea agreement.
[00:06:28] I think he references it here.
[00:06:31] The plea agreement that was initially upended when a judge asked some pretty simple questions.
[00:06:39] Notably, does this cover any kind of crime whatsoever anywhere at any time?
[00:06:43] This seems really expansive as an immunity rider to the plea agreement.
[00:06:52] And
[00:06:52] the whole thing fell apart.
[00:06:56] That's it.
[00:06:57] Just a couple of
[00:06:57] like
[00:06:58] common sense,
[00:06:59] obvious questions to ask by the judge.
[00:07:02] Blew the whole thing up and
[00:07:03] the ruse
[00:07:04] was exposed.
[00:07:06] That they were trying to give
[00:07:08] Hunter Biden a pardon
[00:07:10] through the plea deal.
[00:07:13] Plead to the gun charge.
[00:07:14] Everything else goes away
[00:07:15] forever and ever.
[00:07:17] And the whole thing fell apart.
[00:07:19] And that's why he went to trial
[00:07:20] and lost
[00:07:21] very, very quickly.
[00:07:24] Resoundingly.
[00:07:25] And then
[00:07:26] out in California,
[00:07:27] he pleaded guilty
[00:07:29] to the tax evasion charge.
[00:07:33] So you're saying that
[00:07:34] Hunter should have fought that?
[00:07:35] Like,
[00:07:36] why?
[00:07:37] I don't understand when he says there that
[00:07:39] those who are late paying their taxes
[00:07:41] but paid them back
[00:07:43] are typically given
[00:07:44] non-criminal resolutions.
[00:07:46] Well, he pleaded guilty.
[00:07:50] The charges in it
[00:07:52] in order to avoid the trial,
[00:07:53] by the way, right?
[00:07:54] The charges in his cases
[00:07:55] came about only after
[00:07:57] several of my political opponents
[00:07:58] in Congress
[00:07:59] instigated them
[00:08:00] to attack me
[00:08:02] and oppose my election.
[00:08:03] Then,
[00:08:04] a carefully negotiated plea deal
[00:08:06] agreed to by the DOJ
[00:08:08] unraveled in the courtroom.
[00:08:09] With a number of my political opponents
[00:08:11] in Congress taking credit
[00:08:13] for bringing political pressure
[00:08:14] on the process.
[00:08:16] Had the plea deal held,
[00:08:17] it would have been a fair,
[00:08:18] reasonable resolution
[00:08:19] of Hunter's cases.
[00:08:21] This is a lie.
[00:08:23] This is a lie.
[00:08:24] And I know that there are
[00:08:26] a lot of people
[00:08:26] who woke up today
[00:08:27] unaware that Joe Biden
[00:08:30] is a liar.
[00:08:30] But Joe Biden has been
[00:08:32] a freaking liar
[00:08:33] his entire
[00:08:34] political career.
[00:08:36] Anybody who has paid
[00:08:37] any attention
[00:08:38] to national politics
[00:08:40] for 30 plus years
[00:08:42] knew everything
[00:08:44] about Joe Biden
[00:08:45] is about Joe.
[00:08:48] He is
[00:08:49] a terrible
[00:08:50] person.
[00:08:52] He has been.
[00:08:53] And you guys
[00:08:54] trying to make it out
[00:08:55] like he's some sort of
[00:08:56] old Uncle Joe,
[00:08:58] old Grandpa Joe,
[00:08:59] oh, he's such a
[00:09:00] moral and decent man.
[00:09:01] He has never been that.
[00:09:03] Ever.
[00:09:04] He has been
[00:09:06] a congenital liar
[00:09:07] since he first
[00:09:09] entered the political
[00:09:10] arena.
[00:09:12] He goes on to say
[00:09:13] no reasonable person
[00:09:14] who looks at the facts
[00:09:15] of Hunter's cases
[00:09:16] can reach any other
[00:09:18] conclusion than Hunter
[00:09:19] was singled out
[00:09:20] only because he is
[00:09:21] my son.
[00:09:21] And that is wrong.
[00:09:22] OK, that is wrong.
[00:09:24] What you just said
[00:09:25] is wrong.
[00:09:26] That is not correct.
[00:09:27] I am a reasonable
[00:09:28] person.
[00:09:29] I looked at the facts
[00:09:30] of the Hunter Biden
[00:09:31] case and I reached
[00:09:33] a different conclusion.
[00:09:35] In fact,
[00:09:36] I have concluded
[00:09:37] that Hunter Biden
[00:09:39] was acting as an
[00:09:40] influence peddling
[00:09:41] bag man for a
[00:09:43] Biden crime family
[00:09:44] operation that was
[00:09:45] designed to keep
[00:09:47] you living high
[00:09:48] on the hog
[00:09:48] after Barack Obama
[00:09:50] refused to endorse
[00:09:51] you for president
[00:09:52] way back in 2016.
[00:09:54] Your oldest son
[00:09:56] then died.
[00:09:57] You were, quote,
[00:09:58] retired.
[00:09:59] You needed to keep
[00:10:00] the spigot flowing,
[00:10:01] but you weren't
[00:10:01] smart enough to do
[00:10:03] it like the Clinton
[00:10:03] Foundation.
[00:10:04] So you tried to do
[00:10:05] it this other way
[00:10:06] where Hunter Biden
[00:10:08] would sell access
[00:10:09] to you as if you
[00:10:11] still had juice.
[00:10:12] But for some
[00:10:14] reason, this service
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[00:10:18] the worst actors
[00:10:19] on the global
[00:10:20] stage.
[00:10:21] These oligarchs
[00:10:23] and despots
[00:10:23] and tyrants.
[00:10:24] There was nothing
[00:10:26] of value
[00:10:27] that Hunter Biden
[00:10:29] brought to the
[00:10:30] table in any
[00:10:32] of these deals.
[00:10:33] The only thing
[00:10:34] was that he
[00:10:35] happened to be
[00:10:36] your son
[00:10:37] and he could
[00:10:38] call you up,
[00:10:39] put you on
[00:10:40] speakerphone
[00:10:41] and give the
[00:10:43] illusion of
[00:10:44] access is what
[00:10:45] the media calls
[00:10:46] it, even though
[00:10:46] we all know
[00:10:47] it was access.
[00:10:49] That is what
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[00:10:54] and you can
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[00:10:55] to your dad
[00:10:56] and put him
[00:10:56] on speakerphone
[00:10:57] in my presence
[00:10:58] and we can have
[00:10:58] a chat,
[00:10:59] that's access.
[00:11:00] That's not an
[00:11:01] illusion of access.
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[00:12:06] I do have a silver
[00:12:08] lining in all of this
[00:12:12] pardon stuff.
[00:12:13] I will get to that.
[00:12:15] Let me get back to the
[00:12:16] statement from President
[00:12:18] Joe Biden, last paragraph
[00:12:20] of the four-paragraph
[00:12:22] statement that he
[00:12:22] released after he
[00:12:25] pardoned his son,
[00:12:27] Hunter Biden, which I
[00:12:29] expected to happen.
[00:12:30] I didn't expect it to
[00:12:31] happen this weekend,
[00:12:32] but I don't know.
[00:12:36] I know he's over in
[00:12:37] like Angola now, Joe
[00:12:39] Biden is, so maybe
[00:12:40] they felt like this was
[00:12:42] like the last opportunity
[00:12:44] that they were going to
[00:12:45] get to do it or
[00:12:46] something.
[00:12:46] I don't know, but
[00:12:48] here's the last
[00:12:49] paragraph.
[00:12:50] For my entire career,
[00:12:52] I have followed a
[00:12:52] simple principle.
[00:12:54] Just tell the
[00:12:55] American people the
[00:12:56] truth.
[00:12:58] He literally wrote
[00:12:59] that.
[00:13:00] Okay, that's not
[00:13:01] true.
[00:13:01] I don't know if he
[00:13:02] wrote that.
[00:13:03] I don't even know if
[00:13:04] he's acting president
[00:13:05] anymore at this point.
[00:13:08] I mean, I know he's
[00:13:09] in Angola.
[00:13:11] I know he gets to
[00:13:13] wear the puffy jacket
[00:13:15] with the presidential
[00:13:16] seal on it.
[00:13:17] But I really, I'm not
[00:13:19] sure who's actually in
[00:13:20] charge and who's doing
[00:13:21] this stuff.
[00:13:24] So, this idea,
[00:13:25] though, that he says
[00:13:26] that he has followed a
[00:13:27] simple principle just to
[00:13:28] tell the American people
[00:13:30] the truth, which is
[00:13:33] why he lied, obviously.
[00:13:35] He has lied.
[00:13:37] Like, you don't need
[00:13:38] any better example,
[00:13:41] any other example,
[00:13:42] than the fact that he
[00:13:44] has constantly,
[00:13:46] repeatedly, it's been
[00:13:47] like a dozen different
[00:13:49] times that he and his
[00:13:51] administration have
[00:13:52] said they will not
[00:13:54] pardon Hunter Biden.
[00:13:58] And then he did.
[00:13:59] That is a lie.
[00:14:01] It was a lie when he
[00:14:03] said it.
[00:14:04] Every time he said it.
[00:14:06] It's been a lie.
[00:14:07] By the way, this was
[00:14:08] four days ago.
[00:14:09] Four days ago.
[00:14:11] Press gaggle by senior
[00:14:13] deputy press secretary
[00:14:14] Andrew Bates on the
[00:14:16] way to Queens, New
[00:14:18] York.
[00:14:19] Question.
[00:14:20] Is he still committed
[00:14:21] to no clemency for his
[00:14:23] son, Hunter?
[00:14:24] Mr. Bates, the
[00:14:25] president has spoken
[00:14:26] to this question
[00:14:27] and his position
[00:14:28] hasn't changed.
[00:14:29] Mr. Bates, quote,
[00:14:31] I don't have anything
[00:14:33] to add to what he
[00:14:35] has said already.
[00:14:36] He was asked about
[00:14:37] this on November
[00:14:38] 26th.
[00:14:40] This is according to
[00:14:40] the White House's own
[00:14:42] transcript of the
[00:14:44] press gaggle with
[00:14:46] Andrew Bates.
[00:14:47] Asked once again,
[00:14:49] are you going to do
[00:14:50] this?
[00:14:50] And he said the
[00:14:51] president has already
[00:14:52] addressed this.
[00:14:53] I don't have anything
[00:14:53] to add to what he's
[00:14:54] already said.
[00:14:55] And what he had
[00:14:55] already said was,
[00:14:56] no, I'm not going to
[00:14:57] pardon my son.
[00:14:59] And then he did.
[00:15:01] Three days later,
[00:15:03] he is a liar.
[00:15:06] It almost makes me
[00:15:07] wonder.
[00:15:08] Are there other
[00:15:09] things that Joe Biden
[00:15:10] has lied about?
[00:15:12] Hmm.
[00:15:12] We may never know.
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[00:15:44] All right.
[00:15:45] So let me pick this
[00:15:46] up here for my entire
[00:15:48] career.
[00:15:48] I have followed a
[00:15:49] simple principle.
[00:15:50] Just tell the American
[00:15:51] people the truth.
[00:15:52] They'll be fair minded.
[00:15:54] Here's the truth.
[00:15:56] I believe in the
[00:15:57] justice system, but as
[00:15:59] I have wrestled with
[00:16:00] this, I also believe
[00:16:02] raw politics has
[00:16:04] infected this process
[00:16:05] and it led to a
[00:16:07] miscarriage of justice.
[00:16:08] And once I made this
[00:16:10] decision this weekend,
[00:16:11] there was no sense in
[00:16:12] delaying it further.
[00:16:13] I hope Americans will
[00:16:15] understand why a
[00:16:16] father and a president
[00:16:17] would come to this
[00:16:18] decision.
[00:16:20] I know why a
[00:16:21] conspirator would come to
[00:16:23] this decision.
[00:16:25] That's the end of this
[00:16:26] statement, by the way,
[00:16:27] would come to this
[00:16:27] decision.
[00:16:29] So.
[00:16:31] It kind of sounds like
[00:16:33] he's saying that the
[00:16:33] DOJ was what's the
[00:16:36] word for it?
[00:16:37] Weaponized.
[00:16:39] Is that what he's
[00:16:39] saying?
[00:16:40] That's what it sounds
[00:16:41] like he's saying that
[00:16:43] you can't trust the
[00:16:44] justice system to engage
[00:16:46] in an apolitical
[00:16:48] investigation and
[00:16:49] trial when it involves
[00:16:51] your son that somehow
[00:16:53] or or it might have
[00:16:54] believed that the
[00:16:54] justice system is only
[00:16:55] corrupted by
[00:16:57] Republicans who are
[00:16:59] not part of the
[00:17:00] justice system.
[00:17:02] But are commenting
[00:17:04] about the justice
[00:17:05] system.
[00:17:06] you're saying your
[00:17:08] DOJ is weaponized
[00:17:11] against your son.
[00:17:13] That's I want to be
[00:17:13] clear here.
[00:17:14] That is what the
[00:17:15] president says that
[00:17:17] the Department of
[00:17:18] Justice was
[00:17:20] weaponized under his
[00:17:22] administration against
[00:17:24] him and his kid.
[00:17:26] This is so
[00:17:28] ridiculously obvious
[00:17:30] for all to see.
[00:17:33] By the way,
[00:17:35] the IRS
[00:17:36] whistleblowers,
[00:17:37] Supervisory
[00:17:38] Special Agent
[00:17:39] Gary Shapley
[00:17:39] and Special
[00:17:40] Agent Joe
[00:17:41] Ziegler,
[00:17:42] they put out a
[00:17:43] statement after
[00:17:44] this pardon.
[00:17:45] Here's their
[00:17:46] statement.
[00:17:46] Quote,
[00:17:47] no amount of
[00:17:48] lies or spin
[00:17:49] can hide the
[00:17:50] simple truth that
[00:17:52] the Justice
[00:17:52] Department nearly
[00:17:53] let the
[00:17:54] president's son
[00:17:55] off the hook
[00:17:55] for multiple
[00:17:56] felonies.
[00:17:57] We did our
[00:17:58] duty,
[00:17:59] told the truth,
[00:18:00] and followed
[00:18:01] the law.
[00:18:01] Anyone reading
[00:18:02] the president's
[00:18:03] excuses now should
[00:18:04] remember that
[00:18:05] Hunter Biden
[00:18:06] admitted to his
[00:18:08] tax crimes in
[00:18:09] federal court.
[00:18:10] That Hunter Biden's
[00:18:12] attorneys have
[00:18:13] targeted us for
[00:18:14] our lawful
[00:18:15] whistleblower
[00:18:16] disclosures and
[00:18:17] that we are suing
[00:18:18] one of those
[00:18:19] attorneys for
[00:18:20] smearing us with
[00:18:21] false accusations.
[00:18:23] President Biden
[00:18:24] has the power to
[00:18:25] put his thumb on
[00:18:26] the scales of
[00:18:27] justice for his
[00:18:28] son, but at
[00:18:29] least he has to
[00:18:30] do it with a
[00:18:30] pardon explicitly
[00:18:31] for all the
[00:18:33] world to see
[00:18:33] rather than his
[00:18:35] political appointees
[00:18:36] doing it secretly
[00:18:37] behind the scenes.
[00:18:39] Either way, it is
[00:18:40] a sad day for
[00:18:41] law-abiding
[00:18:42] taxpayers to
[00:18:43] witness this
[00:18:44] special privilege
[00:18:45] for the
[00:18:46] powerful.
[00:18:48] Correct.
[00:18:51] Tristan
[00:18:52] Levitt with
[00:18:53] Empower
[00:18:53] U.S.
[00:18:55] It's like a
[00:18:56] FOIA type of
[00:18:59] government
[00:18:59] transparency
[00:19:00] organization.
[00:19:02] Tristan
[00:19:03] Levitt said,
[00:19:04] President Biden's
[00:19:05] statement is a
[00:19:05] direct attack on
[00:19:06] those IRS
[00:19:07] whistleblowers,
[00:19:08] Gary Shapley and
[00:19:09] Joe Ziegler.
[00:19:10] I never
[00:19:11] doubted Joe was
[00:19:12] going to pardon
[00:19:12] his son, but
[00:19:13] to so gratuitously
[00:19:15] attack the
[00:19:16] meticulous case
[00:19:17] assembled by
[00:19:18] career IRS
[00:19:19] agents is a
[00:19:20] new low, even
[00:19:21] for Joe Biden.
[00:19:22] What an utterly
[00:19:24] ridiculous statement
[00:19:26] from Joe Biden.
[00:19:27] Contrary to
[00:19:28] daddy dearest,
[00:19:29] no reasonable
[00:19:30] person who
[00:19:31] looks at the
[00:19:32] facts of
[00:19:32] Hunter Biden's
[00:19:33] case can
[00:19:34] reach any
[00:19:34] other conclusion
[00:19:35] than that
[00:19:37] Hunter Biden
[00:19:38] committed a
[00:19:38] slew of tax
[00:19:39] crimes, crimes
[00:19:40] for which he
[00:19:41] has now pled
[00:19:42] guilty.
[00:19:43] And recall,
[00:19:46] it was the
[00:19:47] Biden DOJ
[00:19:48] that allowed
[00:19:49] the statute of
[00:19:50] limitations to
[00:19:51] expire on
[00:19:52] the most
[00:19:53] egregious
[00:19:53] charges.
[00:19:56] And the
[00:19:57] only reason
[00:19:58] that the gun
[00:19:59] charge was
[00:20:00] brought was
[00:20:01] because of
[00:20:02] the, well,
[00:20:02] first off,
[00:20:03] the laptop,
[00:20:04] right?
[00:20:05] And Hunter
[00:20:06] Biden wrote a
[00:20:07] freaking memoir
[00:20:09] and talked
[00:20:10] about how he
[00:20:12] bought the gun,
[00:20:13] how he was,
[00:20:13] you know,
[00:20:14] strung out on
[00:20:15] crack,
[00:20:16] how he got
[00:20:17] his dead
[00:20:18] brother's widow
[00:20:19] hooked on
[00:20:19] crack,
[00:20:21] and how she
[00:20:22] threw the gun
[00:20:22] in a dumpster,
[00:20:24] which somebody
[00:20:25] came along
[00:20:26] and found,
[00:20:26] by the way.
[00:20:29] And then
[00:20:29] remember,
[00:20:30] the Secret
[00:20:30] Service tried
[00:20:32] to cover that
[00:20:32] up for Hunter
[00:20:33] Biden.
[00:20:34] You can call
[00:20:35] this the deep
[00:20:36] state,
[00:20:37] you can call
[00:20:38] it the
[00:20:38] bureaucracy,
[00:20:39] you can call
[00:20:40] it the blob,
[00:20:41] you can call
[00:20:42] it whatever
[00:20:42] you want to
[00:20:43] call it.
[00:20:45] But it
[00:20:45] is the
[00:20:46] same,
[00:20:47] no matter
[00:20:48] what you
[00:20:48] call it.
[00:20:50] It is
[00:20:51] a network
[00:20:51] of people
[00:20:52] inside
[00:20:53] government
[00:20:54] agencies,
[00:20:55] they don't
[00:20:56] have to
[00:20:57] take direct
[00:20:58] marching
[00:20:58] orders because
[00:20:59] their ideology
[00:21:00] is aligned
[00:21:01] already.
[00:21:03] And they
[00:21:04] have been
[00:21:04] protecting
[00:21:05] the Biden
[00:21:06] crime family
[00:21:08] for at least
[00:21:09] a decade,
[00:21:09] at least
[00:21:10] a decade.
[00:21:11] and that's
[00:21:12] why the
[00:21:12] term of
[00:21:13] the
[00:21:13] pardon
[00:21:14] is a
[00:21:14] decade.
[00:21:16] See,
[00:21:16] here's the
[00:21:17] thing.
[00:21:17] Hang on a
[00:21:18] second.
[00:21:18] I have it
[00:21:21] written down
[00:21:22] here.
[00:21:22] Here it is.
[00:21:24] The time frame
[00:21:26] gives away
[00:21:27] the game.
[00:21:29] The time frame,
[00:21:30] the pardon
[00:21:31] period
[00:21:32] begins
[00:21:33] January 1,
[00:21:34] 2014.
[00:21:36] Did something
[00:21:37] else happen
[00:21:37] in 2014?
[00:21:39] As a
[00:21:40] matter of
[00:21:40] fact,
[00:21:40] it did.
[00:21:42] Just three
[00:21:43] months later,
[00:21:44] April 2014,
[00:21:45] is when
[00:21:46] Hunter Biden
[00:21:46] joined the
[00:21:47] board of
[00:21:48] Burisma.
[00:21:49] While his
[00:21:50] father was
[00:21:51] still vice
[00:21:52] president.
[00:21:53] Remember that.
[00:21:55] This is,
[00:21:56] we're talking
[00:21:57] about the
[00:21:57] son of
[00:21:58] the sitting
[00:21:58] vice
[00:21:59] president.
[00:22:00] The gun
[00:22:01] charge that
[00:22:02] he got the
[00:22:02] pardon for,
[00:22:04] four years
[00:22:04] after that,
[00:22:05] 2018.
[00:22:06] Four years
[00:22:06] later.
[00:22:07] And by
[00:22:11] comparison,
[00:22:12] Ford's,
[00:22:13] Gerald Ford,
[00:22:14] former
[00:22:14] president,
[00:22:15] Gerald Ford's
[00:22:15] pardon of
[00:22:16] Richard Nixon
[00:22:17] covered five
[00:22:17] years.
[00:22:18] This is
[00:22:19] twice as
[00:22:19] long and
[00:22:22] encompasses
[00:22:22] anything that
[00:22:23] Hunter Biden
[00:22:24] could possibly
[00:22:25] be charged
[00:22:25] with.
[00:22:26] Any crime.
[00:22:26] He got a
[00:22:27] get-out-of-jail
[00:22:28] free card
[00:22:28] for a decade
[00:22:29] of depravity
[00:22:30] and corruption.
[00:22:32] Why?
[00:22:35] Because it's
[00:22:35] going to take
[00:22:36] down the
[00:22:37] entire family.
[00:22:39] Now,
[00:22:39] I am curious
[00:22:40] if he can be
[00:22:41] compelled to
[00:22:42] testify now.
[00:22:43] because anything
[00:22:44] he admits
[00:22:45] to doesn't
[00:22:47] matter,
[00:22:48] right?
[00:22:48] Because he
[00:22:48] can't be
[00:22:49] prosecuted.
[00:22:49] He's got
[00:22:50] the pardon.
[00:22:51] He has
[00:22:51] the get-out-of-jail
[00:22:52] free card.
[00:22:53] So,
[00:22:54] there's no
[00:22:55] threat of
[00:22:55] legal ramifications
[00:22:56] of self-incrimination.
[00:22:58] So,
[00:23:00] he can't
[00:23:01] claim the
[00:23:01] fifth,
[00:23:01] can he not?
[00:23:02] No,
[00:23:02] I don't
[00:23:03] believe so.
[00:23:03] Let me
[00:23:04] get to a
[00:23:04] message here
[00:23:04] actually.
[00:23:05] R.
[00:23:05] Cook says,
[00:23:07] now Hunter
[00:23:07] Biden can
[00:23:08] write his
[00:23:09] book and
[00:23:11] call it
[00:23:11] what I
[00:23:12] did instead
[00:23:13] of doing
[00:23:13] what OJ
[00:23:14] had to
[00:23:14] do and
[00:23:14] title his
[00:23:15] book,
[00:23:15] what if I
[00:23:15] did it and
[00:23:16] sell millions
[00:23:16] of copies.
[00:23:17] Like,
[00:23:17] that's true.
[00:23:19] I did it.
[00:23:20] And I got
[00:23:21] away with it
[00:23:21] too.
[00:23:26] Let's see,
[00:23:27] John says,
[00:23:28] Hunter's
[00:23:28] pardon.
[00:23:29] The gun
[00:23:30] charges and
[00:23:30] taxes were
[00:23:31] insignificant.
[00:23:32] He wasn't
[00:23:33] going to face
[00:23:34] any real
[00:23:34] jail time.
[00:23:35] That is
[00:23:36] correct.
[00:23:37] Right?
[00:23:37] That is
[00:23:37] correct.
[00:23:38] He was
[00:23:38] not looking
[00:23:39] at any
[00:23:39] kind of
[00:23:40] serious
[00:23:40] jail time.
[00:23:42] He wasn't
[00:23:43] going to
[00:23:43] face any
[00:23:44] jail time.
[00:23:44] This
[00:23:45] pardon is
[00:23:45] all about
[00:23:46] the money
[00:23:46] laundering
[00:23:47] that they
[00:23:47] were doing
[00:23:47] through
[00:23:48] Burisma and
[00:23:49] his,
[00:23:49] quote,
[00:23:49] artwork.
[00:23:50] I tend
[00:23:51] to agree.
[00:23:52] Right?
[00:23:53] You give
[00:23:53] this guy
[00:23:54] immunity or
[00:23:55] a pardon
[00:23:55] for all
[00:23:56] crimes so
[00:23:57] nobody could
[00:23:57] be charged
[00:23:58] and that
[00:23:58] means if
[00:23:59] you want
[00:23:59] to go
[00:23:59] after the
[00:24:00] Biden
[00:24:01] crime
[00:24:01] family and
[00:24:02] all of the
[00:24:03] other actors,
[00:24:04] you're going to
[00:24:05] have to get
[00:24:05] at them in
[00:24:06] different ways.
[00:24:07] You can't
[00:24:08] get Hunter
[00:24:08] to flip.
[00:24:10] Unless,
[00:24:11] of course,
[00:24:12] that he
[00:24:12] wants to.
[00:24:13] Right?
[00:24:13] Like,
[00:24:13] if he wants
[00:24:14] to flip now
[00:24:14] that he's
[00:24:14] got a
[00:24:15] pardon or
[00:24:15] something,
[00:24:16] if I'm
[00:24:18] the head
[00:24:19] of DOJ
[00:24:21] under a
[00:24:22] Trump
[00:24:22] administration,
[00:24:24] I start
[00:24:25] dropping the
[00:24:25] hammer on
[00:24:26] every one
[00:24:26] of the
[00:24:26] family members.
[00:24:27] All of
[00:24:28] them.
[00:24:31] I don't
[00:24:32] know any
[00:24:32] other way.
[00:24:33] You guys
[00:24:34] have so
[00:24:35] blown up
[00:24:35] all of
[00:24:36] the norms
[00:24:37] that I
[00:24:38] don't
[00:24:38] know
[00:24:39] any
[00:24:39] other
[00:24:39] way
[00:24:40] to
[00:24:41] now
[00:24:41] proceed.
[00:24:46] Scott
[00:24:47] says,
[00:24:48] could the
[00:24:49] Supreme
[00:24:49] Court
[00:24:50] challenge
[00:24:50] a
[00:24:50] pardon
[00:24:50] that
[00:24:51] extends
[00:24:51] carte
[00:24:51] blanche
[00:24:52] over
[00:24:52] an
[00:24:52] 11-year
[00:24:53] period
[00:24:53] for
[00:24:53] crimes
[00:24:54] that
[00:24:54] Hunter
[00:24:54] may or
[00:24:55] may
[00:24:55] not
[00:24:55] have
[00:24:55] committed?
[00:24:55] It seems
[00:24:56] like a
[00:24:57] terrible
[00:24:57] precedent.
[00:24:58] If Trump
[00:24:58] had a
[00:24:59] press
[00:24:59] conference
[00:24:59] and then
[00:25:00] announced
[00:25:00] that he
[00:25:01] would be
[00:25:01] pardoning
[00:25:01] any person
[00:25:02] who received
[00:25:03] a criminal
[00:25:03] charge
[00:25:03] related to
[00:25:04] say January
[00:25:05] 6th or
[00:25:05] COVID
[00:25:06] restrictions
[00:25:06] based on
[00:25:07] Joe Biden's
[00:25:07] new precedent,
[00:25:08] do you feel
[00:25:09] the court
[00:25:09] would then
[00:25:10] weigh in?
[00:25:11] So this
[00:25:12] gets to
[00:25:14] Jack
[00:25:15] Goldsmith's
[00:25:16] tweet.
[00:25:17] He is a
[00:25:18] Harvard law
[00:25:18] professor and
[00:25:19] he's the
[00:25:19] founder of
[00:25:20] Lawfare
[00:25:20] blog.
[00:25:21] He said
[00:25:22] Biden's
[00:25:22] pardon of
[00:25:23] his son going
[00:25:23] back to
[00:25:24] 2014 covers
[00:25:25] Hunter's
[00:25:25] Burisma
[00:25:26] activities.
[00:25:27] Whether or
[00:25:27] not there
[00:25:28] was criminality,
[00:25:29] there might
[00:25:29] have been
[00:25:30] an investigation
[00:25:30] by the
[00:25:31] incoming
[00:25:31] Trump
[00:25:32] administration.
[00:25:32] That is
[00:25:33] off the
[00:25:34] table now,
[00:25:34] as is
[00:25:35] Hunter's
[00:25:35] Fifth Amendment
[00:25:36] claim before
[00:25:37] congressional
[00:25:38] investigators.
[00:25:39] Also off
[00:25:40] the table
[00:25:40] is any
[00:25:41] Trump
[00:25:41] administration
[00:25:42] investigation
[00:25:42] of Biden
[00:25:43] for issuing
[00:25:44] the pardon
[00:25:44] to obstruct
[00:25:45] justice on
[00:25:46] a theory
[00:25:47] of obstruction
[00:25:48] similar to
[00:25:49] the ones
[00:25:50] that
[00:25:50] Mueller
[00:25:51] was floating.
[00:25:53] Though not
[00:25:54] in the
[00:25:54] pardon context,
[00:25:55] in volume
[00:25:56] two of
[00:25:56] his report,
[00:25:58] he says
[00:26:00] why a
[00:26:00] president could
[00:26:01] theoretically be
[00:26:02] prosecuted for
[00:26:02] using a
[00:26:03] pardon to
[00:26:03] obstruct justice.
[00:26:04] We explained
[00:26:05] in this
[00:26:06] previous
[00:26:06] writing why
[00:26:08] such a
[00:26:08] prosecution
[00:26:09] would not
[00:26:09] necessarily be
[00:26:10] precluded
[00:26:11] by the
[00:26:13] article two
[00:26:13] pardon power,
[00:26:14] which makes
[00:26:15] the pardon
[00:26:16] absolute for
[00:26:17] the beneficiary
[00:26:18] of the
[00:26:18] pardon,
[00:26:19] but does
[00:26:19] not afford
[00:26:20] the president
[00:26:24] immunity
[00:26:25] from
[00:26:26] commission
[00:26:27] of a
[00:26:29] crime in
[00:26:30] connection with
[00:26:30] the granting
[00:26:31] of the
[00:26:31] pardon.
[00:26:32] However,
[00:26:33] here's the
[00:26:34] key.
[00:26:35] Biden is
[00:26:36] protected
[00:26:36] by the
[00:26:38] Supreme Court's
[00:26:39] recent ruling
[00:26:40] that the
[00:26:41] left lost
[00:26:42] their crap
[00:26:43] over.
[00:26:44] Remember that?
[00:26:45] The immunity
[00:26:46] ruling back
[00:26:47] in July,
[00:26:48] the decision
[00:26:49] from,
[00:26:49] he is
[00:26:50] protected now
[00:26:51] because of the
[00:26:51] immunity
[00:26:52] decision from
[00:26:52] criminal investigation
[00:26:53] for possible
[00:26:54] obstruction of
[00:26:55] justice.
[00:26:55] the court
[00:26:57] said that a
[00:26:58] pardon was
[00:26:59] a conclusive
[00:27:00] and preclusive
[00:27:02] presidential power
[00:27:03] and that the
[00:27:04] president's
[00:27:05] exercise of
[00:27:06] such a power
[00:27:07] is broadly
[00:27:08] immune from
[00:27:09] criminalization,
[00:27:11] investigation,
[00:27:12] or prosecution
[00:27:13] by a
[00:27:14] subsequent
[00:27:15] administration.
[00:27:16] The court,
[00:27:17] in reaching this
[00:27:18] conclusion,
[00:27:19] expressed worry
[00:27:20] about an
[00:27:21] executive branch
[00:27:21] that cannibalizes
[00:27:23] itself with
[00:27:24] each successive
[00:27:25] president free
[00:27:26] to prosecute
[00:27:27] his predecessors.
[00:27:31] Biden is
[00:27:32] actually now
[00:27:33] the first
[00:27:34] beneficiary of
[00:27:36] Trump versus
[00:27:36] U.S.
[00:27:37] of that case.
[00:27:41] I have been
[00:27:42] saying this
[00:27:43] since Joe
[00:27:45] Biden first
[00:27:46] announced his
[00:27:47] candidacy for
[00:27:49] president from
[00:27:50] his basement.
[00:27:52] Of all the
[00:27:53] people that the
[00:27:54] left chose,
[00:27:57] well,
[00:27:58] did they have
[00:27:59] a primary
[00:27:59] that time
[00:28:00] around?
[00:28:00] I'm losing
[00:28:00] track.
[00:28:01] Did they?
[00:28:02] I mean,
[00:28:03] there was
[00:28:03] some field
[00:28:03] clearing during
[00:28:04] that primary,
[00:28:05] but regardless,
[00:28:06] right,
[00:28:07] the Democrats
[00:28:07] put Joe
[00:28:09] Biden up
[00:28:10] against Donald
[00:28:11] Trump and
[00:28:15] he is the
[00:28:16] thing that
[00:28:18] the left
[00:28:18] claims Trump
[00:28:19] is.
[00:28:21] He always
[00:28:21] has been.
[00:28:22] I've been
[00:28:23] saying this for
[00:28:24] five years.
[00:28:25] of all the
[00:28:26] people you
[00:28:26] picked,
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