Joe Biden and the Last Deceit

President Joe Biden is a practiced liar. He has been one for his whole life and he is good at it. However, you would think that at the end of his abuse of public office the shame would settle in. There are no more political hills to climb. There are no more races to win. There are no more moments of glory to achieve, crowds to please or donors to hustle. In about four months he is just going to be old Joe alone with his thoughts. At that point the only one he can lie to is himself. It’s going to be a dreary existence. It’s going to be a test of his faith. You see Mr. Biden is a self-professed devout Catholic who has been an ardent supporter of taxpayer funded abortions on demand for decades despite the absolute condemnation of the Catholic Church. Mr. Biden could use his time to reconcile with the Church but he won’t – he, and his crooked son Hunter, still have one more deceit to lay upon America’s voters.

Hunter Biden was convicted on all counts of illegal possession of a firearm, including lying on the requisite “gun check” forms, last June. On Friday, the federal court in California accepted his guilty plea on all counts of income tax fraud and evasion. Well, not before he tried one last sleaze bag trick. He tried to use an Alford plea which basically concedes that the prosecution has sufficient evidence to convict you but allows you to still claim your are innocent. That’s very important because of what comes next. Fortunately both the prosecutors and the court saw through this latest scam and rejected that offer forcing Hunter to plead guilty, without consideration, for the crimes charged.

Hunter, thereafter, claimed that he had chosen to plead guilty to save his family from the embarrassment of a trial that would not only prove his guilt but lay bare his sleazeball life. That included the hookers, the drugs, the abandonment of his illegitimate child from a hooker and his illicit ties and payments from foreign governments and foreign nationals for influence peddling. But Hunter has never seemed to give a damn about “embarrassing” his family before and, trust me, this arrangement has nothing to do with embarrassing his family.

What this had to do with is one last attempt to close the door on a public trial that will involve Mr. Biden’s actions during his years as Vice-President and his years as President. It may even result in disclosures linking former President Barack Obama to knowledge and concealment of that activity. It most certainly will taint the image of a whole host of public official who knew and ignored Mr. Biden’s activities. Here’s what it means.

The guilty pleas effectively ends the proceedings with the exception of what is necessary in the sentencing phase now scheduled for the middle of December. No witnesses. No evidence. No disclosure of the trail of money that flowed to Hunter. No disclosure of the complicated offshore financial transactions used by Hunter to conceal the source of payment AND the distribution of proceeds – the latter including distributions to Mr. Biden and other members of the family. No disclosure of any arrangements made with family members to “hold” the money for Mr. Biden. No disclosure of the facts demonstrating the quid pro quo done for those who made the payments – including foreign governments and corrupt foreign businesses. And finally, no disclosure of the conversations between Mr. Biden and Hunter or Mr. Biden and Hunter’s business associates – not even the testimony of whistle blowers privy to those conversations.

And the price for all of this chicanery is. . . well, nothing. Hunter may be convicted and even sentenced to terms in prison. Up to twenty-five years for the gun charges and up to seventeen years for the income tax charges. But he’s not going to prison – not now and not ever. Mr. Biden has said on repeated occasions that he will not use his authority as President to pardon Hunter – the latest affirmation being the day following Hunter’s guilty pleas. But Mr. Biden lied. The speculation is that Mr. Biden will wait to issue the pardon until the middle of December – a month away from the elections and a month away from his final day as President – a long anticipated Christmas gift to his son – the least deserving person in America.

Basically a clean sweep under the rug. The most transparent whitewash that has ever occurred involving a President.

But wait. Mr. Biden, Hunter and the cast of co-conspirators may have over played their hand. This whole scheme depends on the Democrats continuing their control of the United States Senate – the Democrats have already shown their hand by perfunctory dismissal of a previous impeachment of Mr. Biden – without receiving any evidence, without an examination of any witnesses, without a hearing. It was a preordained protection of one of the most corrupt presidents in modern history.

However, the makeup of the Congress changes almost three weeks (January 3, 2025) before the next president is sworn into office (January 20, 2025). Should the Republicans regain control of the Senate, the House could again pass a resolution of impeachment and send it to the Senate for trial and the Senate could order the trial, including the rules for the trial immediately thereafter. The rules could do two things. First, require the production of evidence along with foundational personnel – even the evidence currently secreted by the White House. And two, allow the examination of witnesses by competent counsel instead of the weary five minute alternating speeches by senators more interested in politics and personal airtime than the truth. And if Mr. Biden has pardoned Hunter, then Hunter can be compelled to testify on every aspect of the corruption and conversation because he cannot no longer be charged with any of the crimes perpetrated by him and his father and thus his Fifth Amendment rights are nullified.

It makes little difference whether Mr. Biden’s term expires prior to conclusion of such a proceeding because the punishment on a finding of guilt is not just removal from office, it includes a bar to holding future federal offices – elected or appointed. (You may remember that that was precisely what former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was trying to do with former President Donald Trump – not remove him from office but prevent him from running again. She lost on all counts.) In addition, a conviction could result in the removal of his “perks” as a former president – lifetime salary of over $400,000 annually, travel expenses, free health insurance, compensation for offices and staff, secret service protection and even possibly the revenues from any books that Mr. Biden might generate dealing with his time as President. But those are ancillary to the full disclosure of just how brazen and corrupt Mr. Biden was in office – and a warning to others that think they are above the law – like Joe, Hunter and the rest of the Biden clan.

And it makes no difference who may be the next President because the President has no role in the impeachment process. Although electing Republican Donald Trump would create a cooperative response to the production of documents whereas the election of Democrat Kalamata Harris would continue the obstruction which has now become a hall mark of the Biden-Harris administration. Even the Vice-president is irrelevant because the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court presides in the event of a trial. I don’t indulge in the fantasy that the Senate may actually convict Mr. Biden because it requires a two-thirds vote of the members of the Senate and even in the best case, the Republicans will have only fifty-three members and it is doubtful they could entice sufficient defections from the highly partisan ranks of the Democrats to get to that sixty-seven vote threshold.

The point here is that there exists a lawful process for exposing the whole truth about Joe Biden and his family’s corruption without the political filter of the Democrats and without the bias of the press.

Hope springs eternal.