June 22, 2023

On Tuesday it was reported that Hunter Biden had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors while his felony firearm possession charge would be effectively dismissed via a pretrial diversion — a resolution only reserved for a Biden.

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In 2021, for example, fewer than 1 percent of cases filed by U.S. attorneys in federal court resulted in the same pretrial diversion offered to Hunter. No such resolution was offered, for example, to the rapper Kodak Black. According to Black’s lawyer, Black — a two-time Grammy Award nominee — got 3 years for the same offense. Black provided an incorrect Social Security number on a federal gun purchase form to buy three firearms from a Miami gun shop in 2019. His criminal record would have disqualified him from the gun purchases.

Hunter Biden lied on his own federal gun purchase form in October of 2018; responding “no” to a question that asked, “Are you an unlawful user of, or addicted to, marijuana or any depressant, stimulant, narcotic drug, or any other controlled substance?” Lying on the form is a felony. 

Hunter Biden and his gun (via his abandoned laptop computer and the New York Post)

But the Democrats want the American voter to believe that justice has been served; more importantly they hope to use this superficial ‘punishment’ to convince the American people that the Biden DOJ is fair. 

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The slap on the wrist is the culmination of a nearly five-year investigation into Hunter Biden. The case wasn’t complicated. Hunter Biden didn’t pay his taxes. He failed to pay $100,000 to the IRS for 2017 and at least as much in 2018. Ditto his felony as it related to lying on a federal form to purchase a firearm. He lied. What took so long to get ‘justice’?

The DOJ dragged their feet on this case for years — effectively ignoring it during the 2020 presidential election. David Weiss, the U.S. attorney, who has been leading the faux-investigation into Hunter Biden, is a Trump appointee. Democrats highlight this as some relevant detail; as if it serves to confirm that justice has really been served.

During the 2020 election, Weiss took his investigation underground and avoided taking any actions that might be construed by the Democrat media as election interference. In fact, Weiss paused the investigation. Biden could have gotten rid of Weiss after he was ‘elected,’ but he didn’t. Why would he? Weiss, in his capacity as a U.S. attorney, served at the behest of Biden Attorney General Merrick Garland. Garland serves at the behest of Joe Biden. 

Weiss was never an independent operator. He superficially led an investigation into Hunter Biden that was ultimately overseen by Hunter’s father — President Joe Biden. If Biden and the DOJ had any integrity, they would have appointed an independent special counsel to handle the investigation. Instead, they smartly kept a Trump appointee in charge, who they could control and could give them ‘street cred.’

This fake investigation into Hunter Biden was simply a coverup of the real Biden crimes committed — like taking bribes from Burisma. The objective was always to get Hunter Biden to plead guilty to minor offenses in order to sweep the bigger scandal under the rug and make the more important investigations simply go away. 

But why is the investigation only now coming to a conclusion? Why is Hunter Biden just now announcing his plea deal — five years later? The announcement coincided with another announcement — the court date for the Trump classified documents show trial.