Biden Family Influence Peddling & Newsom Fights Trump | 12.3.24
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What are the implications of Biden's pardon for Hunter?
Yeah, President Biden and his staff said countless times over the last year that they would respect the legal process and not intervene. But on Sunday, he did just that, offering his son Hunter a pardon that was really just historic in its scope. The document itself protects the younger Biden from being charged with any crimes, quote, which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1st, 2014 through December 1st, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted. Translation, he cannot be held legally accountable for anything he did over the last decade. Now, if the language of that pardon sounds vague, that is intentional. President Biden clearly wants to ensure that his son is totally protected, not just from looming federal charges, but future ones that have not yet been brought.
So just... Extraordinary and sweeping, as you said, and quite different from other pardons we've seen presidents offer in the past, correct?
Exactly. While past presidents have offered pardons for specific crimes and specific convictions, it's almost unheard of for a pardon to be this broad in scope. For example, according to Margaret Love, the former U.S. pardon attorney, quote, "...I have never seen language like this in a pardon document that purports to pardon offenses that have not apparently even been charged." with the exception of the Nixon pardon. But again, that was 50 years ago.
So like nothing we've seen before, save for maybe that famous Nixon pardon. And the timeframe in that pardon, 2014 to 2024, is very important as well.
Tell us about that. Yeah, it's no accident that Biden offered clemency starting January 1st of 2014. That is right around the time Hunter secured a multimillion-dollar post with Ukrainian energy company Burisma. It was there that he allegedly began using his father's political influence to secure lucrative deals and meetings. Now, Republican investigators in the House have long said Hunter Biden broke federal law during his time at Burisma and other overseas companies. But he's yet to be charged by the DOJ or anyone else. And now he's essentially home free. For more on that, we spoke with Eric Eggers, vice president of the Government Accountability Institute.
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