Listen dumbass. You don't f-ck with the President's kids. They have special immunity.
Think Billy Carter. Sure he was an inebriated degenerate who was trying to conduct convert policy with our adversaries in the Middle East...but he's family. And family always comes first. Plus his beer while tasting like urine was good for America.
Hunter Biden’s Pardon: Your Tax Dollars At Work
Ordinary Americans are held accountable when they defraud the IRS. Not the president’s son.
By Joseph Ziegler and Gary Shapley
Dec. 3, 2024 1:20 pm ET
Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, leaves court after his guilty plea in his trial on tax evasion in Los Angeles, Sept. 5. Photo: robyn beck/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images
The White House’s story on Hunter Biden keeps changing. The president supposedly had no knowledge of his son’s business, then no involvement in it, then no financial benefit from it. The goal posts moved as more facts came to light. Before the election, Joe Biden promised he would respect the legal process and issue no pardon or commutation to his son. This week he went much further than pre-emptively commuting any sentence to keep his son from prison. He issued a broad pardon for any and all crimes over a nearly 11-year period.
He gave his son the sweeping immunity to which career prosecutors refused to agree as part of an aborted plea deal. When that deal collapsed in July 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed a special counsel. Despite his testimony to Congress in March 2023 that Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss had full authority over the matter, Mr. Garland granted special charging authority to Mr. Weiss.
These dizzying narrative shifts happened because the two of us blew the whistle and exposed the preferential treatment the Biden Justice Department gave to a powerful political family. Our story never changed—because we told the truth.
President Biden’s pardon is an insult to every honest taxpaying American. He claimed that his own Justice Department unfairly targeted his son. On the contrary, we produced mountains of evidence and testified under oath about the machinations his Justice Department, including Mr. Weiss, used to shield the Biden family from a thorough investigation of alleged corruption in Ukraine, Romania and China.
This year, a jury found Hunter Biden guilty of federal gun charges in Delaware and he pleaded guilty to willful tax felonies in California. The president’s letter falsely suggests that his son was merely late in filing and paying his taxes because of serious addictions. He wrote that in such cases, when back taxes are paid with penalties and interest, they are often resolved without criminal penalties, but his son was treated differently. That’s malarkey.
The American people need to know, and the president’s letter omits, that Hunter Biden admitted to intentional felony tax evasion—criminal charges for which ordinary Americans are held accountable every day. Hunter Biden admitted that he filed false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service—knowingly and willfully, while sober. False deductions taken on his tax return contradicted statements he made in his memoir, which he wrote while sober. These false deductions included things like a sex-club membership, luxury vehicle rentals, and house rentals for his then-girlfriend.
Ordinary Americans are routinely held accountable for that kind of tax fraud, but Hunter Biden will escape accountability because his father is president.
Joe Biden’s letter doesn’t mention that his broad pardon also absolves his son of any other crime in the past decade that the Justice Department didn’t fully investigate. In a public filing in August, special counsel Weiss’s office alleged that Hunter Biden “agreed to attempt to influence U.S. public policy” on behalf of a Romanian businessman but didn’t charge Mr. Biden with a violation of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
The dishonesty that has infected the Washington political class must stop, and the bureaucrats in the Justice Department and IRS who have abused their power and acted unethically ought to be held accountable.
The constant retaliation against us as whistleblowers should cease, and those responsible should be held to account. Nonprofit efforts such as DefendWhistleblowers.com are helping. Without serious reform and major changes in personnel and policy, something like this will happen again. We will keep our oaths as sworn federal law-enforcement officers, stand up for fair and equal treatment of every taxpayer, and speak out against improper politicization of the Justice Department.
Messrs. Ziegler and Shapley are IRS special agents.
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