Biden’s Pardon of Hunter Is Self-Serving

So Titus Manlius Torquatus had his own son executed. Why because he was faithful to the law and his son had broken the law done something that merited the death penalty in Rome, and he was like, well, sorry, yes, I'm gonna kill my son. And how Trump just letting his son completely off the hook for everything he's ever done wrong in his life is maybe sort of the

opposite example of that. Anyway, I blathered on and on and on about all this, and on and on and on about the narrative of like, oh, this isn't really a crime anyone would have charged against Hunter Biden, And I'm like, well, no, quite the opposite. Hunter has been treated with kid gloves for all this conduct for years. He would have been charged with more if prosecutors hadn't been trying to give him a sweetheart deal to get

off Scott free from all of his misconduct. There's a lot of things they could have charged him with that they didn't. That they allowed the Statute of Limitations to

pass on. All of his shenanigans, gallivanting around Europe and Asia, selling access to selling the appearance of access or flat out access to his dad, to foreign businesses in Ukraine, foreign businesses in China, China that were foreign business in China that were clearly connected with Chinese Communist Party, in intelligence, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, all kinds of stuff. So a bunch of stuff the Statute of Limitations passed on.

He was only charged with his tech problems. Going back to I think about twenty eighteen onward and then the gun charge, and I also talked about how it's such a shameful thing given that Biden had spent a large chunk of his political life ranting about two different issues one gun violence, two the ultra wealthy who don't pay their taxes and what does he absolve his son of

a gun crime. A gun crime, by the way, for gun legislation that Biden himself worked on as a senator, that Biden himself could have called, you know, could have you know, here's Biden saying, well, this is overly harsh to penalize someone with a prison sentence for wrongly stating something on a gun form. Oh, you think that this federal gun law is too harsh? Boy, If only somebody had been in a position to help rewrite or amend

this federal gun legislation to make it less punitive. If only someone had been, like say, a US senator for thirty six years, and then Vice president of the United States for eight years, and then President of the United States for another four years, maybe they could have suggested some amendments to it. Oh, but of course not, Joe Biden would never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever ever in a billion years suggest gun legislation that was

less punitive. So anyway, I talked about all these different ways in which the Hunter Biden pardon was ridiculous and historical examples about the pardon power, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and I didn't really talk enough about maybe Joe Biden's motivations for this pardon are not as clean and pure as the wind driven snow, and that there's a little densey bit of self interest. Now, let's remember kind of where Hunter is in his legal problems. He's already had his

trial for the guns stuff. Trial for the gun stuff is done, he was found guilty, His sentencing was coming up. My head, friends asking me, is why did why did Joe pardon Hunter in early December. Wouldn't isn't that usually a thing a president does like closer to the very end of his term like this. Wouldn't this have been more likely to have happened on like January nineteenth or something. Well, Hunter's sentencing was coming up, I believe later this month.

So I think Trump, excuse me, I think Biden issues the pardon now so that Hunter doesn't have to go through the sentencing. Now, Hunter has been found guilty after a trial for the gun thing. He has been He has pled guilty to the tax charges that were filed against him. This is basically in connection to Hunter was receiving millions and millions and millions of dollars of income from his various business dealings, gallivanting around Europe and Asia

and not paying any taxes at all. Already, some of that financial information has become public on like the kinds of things he was spending money on and not paying his taxes. Again, it was gazillions of dollars. By the way, the only way Hunter has been able to not get hit with worst charges or isn't in a worst predicament is because various Joe Biden donors paid Hunter's tax debts. So the stuff that Hunter owed in taxes has been paid back with interest and penalties by Joe Biden donors.

Which how that isn't a massive elections problem an unreported campaign expense probably, you know, especially by the liberal standard, where that was the whole basis of the Trump prosecution in Manhattan. The whole idea was that Trump paying Stormy Daniels for a non disclosure agreement constituted a campaign expense that he didn't report to federal campaign officials, a federal campaign expense to hide the fact that he paid off this woman to not talk about their affair and thereby

won the twenty sixteen election. That's the whole narrative for the Alvin Bragg thing. Which seems kind of silly. I mean, a news story came out about another woman that Trump signed a non disclosure agreement with with whom he allegedly had an affair. That story came out also like two or three days before the twenty sixteen election, and Trump's

stilt one. I doubt two bimbo stories would have sunk his campaign where one bimbo story didn't now regards so, so, the left is all in on this notion that what constitutes a campaign expense is this huge, very flexible idea. Frank, actually, under federal election law, in all likelihood no having someone sign a non disclosure agreement. Yeah, maybe it helps put you in a better position for getting elected because this person won't come out to talk about how you cheated

on your wife with them. But that's not, properly speaking, a campaign expense. A campaign expense is a campaign television ad, billboards, you know, uh, internal polling that you pay for, Like those are campaign expenses. That's the stuff you have to report to federal elections officials. Anyway, the thing I didn't really talk about is the self serving nature of the part. Now Biden's pardon of his son Trump is covering a very specific timeline. It's going from early twenty fourteen to

the present. Now, that's an oddly specific timeline for any crimes he may have committed that are touched upon it all in the Special Council's investigation from January of twenty fourteen onward. What kind of things were happening in twenty fourteen, Let's ask, well, Joe Biden was vice president at that time, and twenty fourteen was when Hunter was doing all of his shenanigans with Barisma, the Ukrainian energy company, where a lot of people have implicated Joe Biden and all of that.

Tony Bobolinski, who had been a business partner of Hunters, he was the guy testifying whether it was the Ukraine stuff with the Chinese stuff, et cetera, that the big guy mentioned in the Hunter Biden emails frequently mentioned the big guy was Joe Biden. Clearly it's Joe Biden, And I think that one of the important things to remember here.

By Joe pardoning Hunter for all of that stuff, and now a lot of that stuff, Hunter couldn't have been prosecuted for necessarily because it was pasted the Statute of Limitations all right, So for federal tax offenses, if you've committed some kind of tax fraud, if you haven't paid a bunch of your taxes, whatever, and it's it's at such a bad level that it we're not talking about the IRS anymore. We're talking about federal prosecutors, okay. And

that's the thing. You know, if you're ten thousand dollars short paying your taxes, the IRS handles it. If you were six or seven million dollars of income short of paying your taxes, that's when a federal prosecutor gets involved. And that's the uh domain that Hunter was in as

far as how much taxes he wasn't paying. For Hunter's tax charges, it wasn't going to touch all the stuff that happened in twenty fourteen because the prosecutors, in their effort to give Hunter a sweetheart deal, let years go by where they didn't indict him. So Hunter, you know, they didn't indict him in twenty twenty. His twenty fourteen tax stuff went by the wayside. This actually the limitation tolls and his twenty fourteen tax problems they go away.

Twenty twenty one goes by his twenty fifteen tax problems go away. Twenty twenty two goes by his twenty sixteen tax problems go away, twenty twenty three goes by his twenty seventeen tax problems go away. Finally he gets indicted this year. So everything you know six years back and forward he can be indicted for. But evidence of stuff

Hunter did prior to that could still come in. Financial information of stuff he did prior to then could still come in, and maybe some really damaging information about what Joe was involved in, stuff that could really screw up Joe Biden's legacy, maybe even stuff that could lead to joecing some kind of criminal jeopardy. And that's the thing. When we return, I want to talk about how clearly Hunter always knew the pardon was coming. That's next on

The John Gerardy Show. Is Joe's pardon of Hunter an altruistic act of a father protecting his son. Is it a reasonable act by the President of the United States to moderate the strict application of justice in a way that was unfair and politically motivated. No, and no, I think it might have also just been the President doing a little bit of his own cya. The whole setup of how Hunter was making money was he would go to these foreign companies, he would sell to them. At

the very least. The best interpretation of this possible is that Hunter was selling to these companies the appearance of Hey, you give me money and I give you access to the Vice president of the United States. They would give Hunter money, Hunter would at least pretend to give them access or something. And because there's nothing else that it could have been, Hunter was getting millions of dollars of

payment and there was no clear service going back. Let's put Hunter Biden on the board of directors of Barisma, a Ukrainian energy company. What the heck does Hunter know about Ukrainian energy? He doesn't know Jack Squatt, but his dad is the key point person in the Obama administration for Ukraine policy. All of a sudden, here's Joe Biden exerting pressure on the Ukrainian government to fire this prosecutor who's investigating Barisma. Shortly around the time, I'm his son

joins the board. Oh, the Ukrainian government fires that guy. Ah. Barisma immediately cuts Hunter Biden's pay as a board member in half. I believe it was a massive reduction in what they were paying him. As soon as Joe Biden stopped being the Vice president of the United States on January twentieth, twenty seventeen, I think it was literally two months later, like they didn't even wait very long. And I think it was in March of twenty seventeen that

they immediately cut Hunter Biden's salary like that. They were not subtle about it. We're gonna pay you a lot less because you have a lot less to offer to us now that your dad's not the vice president. And I think Hunter knew all alone. And this is the thing, Joe, We already know that Joe at least knew that he's son was selling at the very Again, this is the best case interpretation of it. It's very reasonable to draw

a far less flattering interpretation of these events. The best interpretation of it is that Joe knew that his son and his brother were selling the appearance of access to him, an influence from him to foreign businesses, and he did nothing to stop it. He was the one person who could have stopped it. He could have told Hunter, don't you dare tell these foreign businesses that they can get something out of me. That the whole that that's that's bribery.

That there's your you could be operating as a foreign agent without being registered as one like that. There's there's a million things wrong with this. It's it could be totally corrupt and slazy looking. Absolutely not. Don't do this that there are all these there's evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence that's come in that Joe talked with, interacted with Hunter's clients. Hunter had a dinner in DC for a bunch of them.

Joe Biden stopped by, said a load of people that Hunter would put his dad on the phone when he was around clients. The first time Hunter puts his dad on the phone with clients, and Joe says, oh, you've got so and so with you. If Joe were an honest, upright person, he would have called Hunter back a minute later and yelled at him, don't you dare ever put me on a phone with one of your clients again. Stop telling these people that they can get access to me.

If that's what you're selling these people, you got to stop. I can't have the appearance of this. It just even the very appearance that this is happening is corrupt. But Joe clearly never did that. If Hunter was really being charged with these federal tacks crimes, and all of this evidence could come in of what was Hunter doing, How was Hunter making this money, What were these, you know, what kinds of things of his father's expenses, Maybe was

he paying for? Was money flowing to Hunter as a workaround for things that were intended to benefit the big guy? I mean, it's not a crazy thing in fraud cases where the fraudster, instead of having someone fraudulently pay the money to him, has the payments go to a family member and then the family member benefit the big guy in some way, shape or form. That's not an uncommon thing.

Was that what Hunter was doing. If Hunter's taxes get opened up in the course of a criminal trial where Hunter's fighting for his life, where he doesn't know the silver bullet of a presidential pardon is waiting for him, maybe that evidence comes in. Maybe Hunter is not going to just plead guilty. Maybe we go through all kinds of discovery. Maybe we go through a detailed public presentation of evidence that is not flattering to Joe. Heck, maybe

Hunter even testifies against his own dad. If he's in a bad enough situation. If federal prosecutors are like what you've got evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the President of the United States, by well by at that time, the vice president of the United States, who is currently the President of the United States. You got clear, can you know, criminal evidence? But Hunter didn't do that. Hunter's entire conduct over the course of this indictment for his federal tax problems.

being absolved for. It's not. It goes all the way back to January, it goes all the way back to twenty fourteen, when Joe was vice president, when Hunter was beginning to gallivant around selling at again, best case scenario, the appearance of influence from his dad, all of that stuff is covered by the pardon. So and by this so once you're pardoned, It totally eviscerates any need, any

incentive for a criminal investigator to investigate it. Well, I'm not gonna investigate this for possible criminal violations when the guy has received a presidential pardon. We can't. We can't move forward with the prosecution. He's been pardoned. So I think that's another way of needing to look at the pardon of Hunter. Biden is no one. It is not the moderating hand of the president to moderate the strict application of justice in a way that was overly rigorous

in a certain given circumstance. It wasn't the president, you know. Uh just it wasn't even altruistically a father caring for his son. And I mean, that's a human motivation. I can understand if I had the complete power to wave a magic wand and make my son not go to federal prison, I'd probably waive it, even if my son had done something meriting federal prison time. I could understand that motivation. But it's not just that. It's not just

that there's some self dealing here. When we return a journey into the twisted mind of mind of erstwhile political commentator Keith Olberman next on the John Girardi Show. I want to talk about someone who is maybe kind of a bit of a blast from the past for a lot of you, hasn't really been particularly relevant in any way, shape or form for the last several years. Keith Olberman. Now, many of you may remember Keith from when he had

a show on MSNBC. Some of you may go further back and remember when he was an anchor on Sports Center. It was him and Dan Patrick and a lot of people Harold people who are ESPN officionados, you know, sports TV officionados, Harold Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman as the epitome of ESPN that they were the best Sports Center anchors ever and that was the best and blah blah blah, blah blah. I can't actually think of any Keith Olberman

moment that I thought was great. I mean, Dan Patrick is clearly a very talented broadcaster and a very successful career. But Olberman had a different kind of successful career. Basically, it's sort of successful. He just kept getting opportunity after opportunity after opportunity, and he kept so ticking off his

own employers that he would get fired. He seems to be a total misanthrope who just burns bridges everywhere he goes to the point where, in spite of the fact that this man is obviously very talented broadcaster, I'm not gonna say he's bad at talking or bad at TV or bad at radio. He's not currently doesn't currently have a job. What he is is completely unhinged on Twitter. He's on Twitter and he is an unbelievable follow just in like like the way that maybe like car crash

videos would be popular to watch online or something. He's oh, he is out there the just whatever is the most aggressively insane left wing position to hold. And he's also like at this old man yelling at Cloud's phase of life where he thinks everybody needs to be fired. He thinks everyone should resign, he thinks everyone should be anyone on the right. He hates obviously, he hates Trump. He thinks everyone on the right should be arrested and convicted.

I found this guy on Twitter who just did a string of tweets from Olberman from the last year, just this year, tweets where Olberman was demanding that Democrats resign And why now this guy follow on Twitter. He's this lawyer who goes by the name Jarvis Jarvis Underscore Best and he's very, very funny. I have no idea who he is. All I know he's like a lawyer from Colorado. But he's super funny. So he writes, I have decided

and I've retweeted this. You can find this at my Twitter account Twitter dot com slash Fresno Johnny at Fresno Johnny, I have decided to do a new Keith thread, a thread of tweets by Keith Oberman. I really enjoyed my last one, where he demanded that everyone get arrested for insane reasons. But this new one is made up of people he demands to resign. Now, Keith demands that people resign every day, So to keep it of reasonable length, I'm limiting it to one Democrats, people on his own side,

and two a demand issued within the last year. Even with those restrictions, there's still a lot of content. As with the last thread, I will name the person who should resign and identify the reason why they should resign. All right, let's go. So, here are some of the people that Olberman thinks should resign. All right, We'll start off Senator Gary Peters Senator Gary Peters is a senator from Michigan. Gary Peters said some stuff that was kind

of critical. He's a Democrat senator from Michigan. He said some stuff kind of critical of the Hunter. Biden. Pardon, resign you cowardly pine cone, says Keith Olberman. Now I'm not sure where the pine cone thing came from, is because Michigan's kind of a northern state, more or evergreens, more pine cones. Not exactly sure. Olberman thought that also, in addition to partning Hunter, he thought Biden should preemptively partner all the people that he thinks Trump is going

to prosecute when Trump comes into office. He says, you should issue ten million pardons today, which led people to say, oh, are there ten million people in Washington, DC committing crimes? Keith? All right, so a Democrats senator with the temerity to say, hey, Biden said he wasn't going to pardon his son, and then he one did it. That's not a great look. No, you don't do, not dare criticize this outgoing democratic president

where there's no harm in criticizing him, no political harm whatsoever. Nope, resign you, cowardly pine Cone Jared Polis. Jared Polis is the governor of Colorado. Polus was slightly optimistic about the appointment of RFK Junior to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. He said, there are some things that RFK has said that I that I agree with, and he's the governor of Colorado, which is not like Colorado's not I think at this point a traditionally blue state, necessarily

it's kind of a lot of hippies. They kind of lean a lot more crunchy. I don't think it's seems kind of understandable that the governor of a state like Colorado might kind of vibe a little bit at least with RFK Junior resign Judge Juan Merchon. So, Judge Juan Mrchon is the judge who's overseen Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan. This is the criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records with regards to payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for

the non disclosure agreement. Mrchon has been needing to kind of reschedule hearings relating to Trump's sentencing because of this little hiccup in the prosecution. Well, two little hiccups. One the fact that a Supreme Court decision came down between the guilty verdict and the sentencing that said presidents cannot have evidence of official acts used against them in the context of criminal prosecutions, that they are immune from having

such evidence come in. And Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney of Manhattan, used a bunch of that evidence in the Manhattan trial, although he didn't necessarily need to. But it was Bragg himself who called this evidence devastating against Trump. He can't now reasonably go back and say, oh, no, it was a nothing burger. It totally was unnecessary. That's why I included it and said it was so devastating. So Mrchon has to have he has to hear emotions

about that. And also the person who was the defendant in this criminal prosecution, uh, just got elected president of the United States. So that's going to impact things as far as sentencing. That has to move some stuff around. Mrchon. And by the way, Murchon has been who is a Democrat donor whose daughter was like a big time Democrat fundraiser, including for Kamala Harris, the person Trump was running for president against. Mrchon has ruled against Trump on literally every,

essentially every important motion in the Manhattan trial. He was so biased it's completely absurd. But not enough for Keith Oberman. Judge Wan Murchon is afraid to uphold the law. If that's the case, he should resign today. CBS campaign reporter Olivia Rinaldi this year, she reported that Trump had announced he would agree to a debate with Kamala Harris on Fox News. She reported this without commentary. She's a reporter. She reports, this is what the Trump campaign is saying.

They will agree to a debate with Kamala Harris on Fox News. Olberman, resign. You've chosen the wrong field. You may qualify as a stenographer. Try that. Also, he lives in a world where, anyway, I guess there are still courtroom stenographers, but not exactly a booming profession. The National Association of Black Journalists president Ken Lemon, some of you

may remember this. Trump went to the National Association of Black Journalists convention, where he fielded questions from black journalists and a lot of very hostile questions. Keith Olberman thinks that the president of that association, I guess, just for letting Trump into the building and asking him very hostile questions that he should resign for this resign Congressman Representative

Jared Golden. After the assassination the first I guess, the first assassination attempt against President Trump was issued some statements encouraging people to turn down the level of their political rhetoric given that an assassination attempt that happened against President Trump. Sad to say, but Representative Golden has folded in the face of the trumpest threat. Please Congressman resign. So how many Democrat resignations do we have? We're up to one, two, three, four, five, six.

We're not done yet. Senator Dick Durbin. Senator Durbin is the Democrat Senator from Illinois, and he is the chair right now. He won't become January third, I guess when the new Congress is sworn in. Dick Durbin is the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which oversees the confirmation of judges and other issues relating to the federal judiciary in so far as Congress is able to regulate it.

Dick Durbin criticized Clarence Thomas and called for legislation to regulate the Supreme Court, but Keith thought he wasn't tough enough. Keith Oberman thought, no, no, no, no, no, he wasn't tough enough in criticizing Clarence Thomas, which, as the guy who authored this tweet thread writes, other than donning a suicide vest I'm not sure what Durbin was supposed to do here that would be tougher. Resign and turn the chair of the Senate, the Senate Judiciary Chairmanship. Resign and

turn the chair over to a non eunuch, Dick Durbin. So, in addition to telling Senator Durbin that he should resign, he also called him a eunuch, so good to know. He then tweeted at David Challion, Jake Tapper, and Dana Bash and Mark Thompson, who are all different CNN anchors and personalities, that all of them should resign because they hosted the Trump Biden presidential debate. Trump thought your infomercial

mislabeled a debate was great. You should all resign and find new careers, which, in fairness, Keith has resigned and found a new career, you know, four or five different times. So you know, maybe maybe he's just that, maybe that's not that big of a deal. We're gonna still keep going. Governor Kathy Hackull, the governor of New York Hakuele, was calling for increased infrastructure spending in the Bronx, to which Olberman responded that Kathy Hockul needs to resign or be impeached.

This was this was a hard one to understand. What's wrong with Is that such a crazy thing? It's not like the Bronx is the nicest part of New York by any stretch. Seems like a reasonable thing for the governor to say, Hey, we need better infrastructure in the Bronx. I don't know, but no, Oberman's unacceptable. I guess I think he's kind of a Manhattanite. I don't know. Maybe maybe it's some maybe it's some internal New York City

politics that I don't understand. Ken Delanyan from NBC. This is because Delanian noted that Robert Herr, the Special Counsel, thought Joe Biden was old Keith Now, Keith was of the opinion that Biden being old was a disinformation plot. Olberman writes, the judiciary correspondent of NBC News can't tell when one party has hijacked the hearing. Process to have lying political hacks like Robert hur advance the Biden age plot and the other side isn't resign Kendlanian from NBC.

You have failed a minimal journalistic threshold. We gotta keep going. I got to finish this segment, but he keeps going. All of the liberal justices on the Supreme Court for not disqualifying Trump, Merrick Garland needed to be fired, Jonathan Chase, who wrote a column that was critical of Trump but not critical enough, Eric Adams, Themeir of New York for noticing immigration, and then but at the end of it, he says Bob Menendez did nothing wrong. He shouldn't resign.

Bob Menendez, the guy who had gold bars in his house given to him from the saudis all right when we return my proposal to give Keith Olberman a show next on The John Girardi Show. Here's my appeal to MSNBC. Give Keith Olberman a showback. Look if his tweeting history is any indication this guy is wild. And actually maybe MSNBC is in the right forum because they'll like treat

him seriously. I think maybe like either Fox needs to give him a show or maybe Elon Musk just puts a camera in Keith's room and just lets him go wild. Go follow Keith Olverman on Twitter. It's hilarious. That'll do it. John Girardi Show, See you next time on Power Talk