‘Child of Privilege’: Hunter Biden Dodges Stiffer Charges Despite Admitting to Serious Crimes
18:30 GMT 20.06.2023 (Updated: 16:33 GMT 20.09.2023)
© AP Photo / Nick Wass
Subscribe
The US Department of Justice announced on Tuesday it had filed charges against Hunter Biden, an international businessman and the son of US President Joe Biden, related to refusing to pay income tax and illegal possession of a firearm.
Biden has entered a plea deal on the charges, which could put him in jail for up to 15 years. However, experts told Sputnik that the prodigal son admitted to far worse crimes that those he is being tried for, but that the DoJ is refusing to file them against him.
Marc Little, a conservative political commentator and executive director of CURE America Action, suggested that “perhaps the DoJ is attempting to rehabilitate its ‘zero” credibility before their unprecedented political trial against former President Donald Trump begins.”
“Hunter’s now-alleged involvement in international bribery and corruption will be ignored while the DoJ wages war on the current president’s political opponent,” he said.
“With what appears to be a plea deal and a slap on the wrist to the president’s son, and no indictment for the many crimes committed by Hillary Clinton and numerous FBI brass in the infamous Russia Hoax, it is clear [that] the DoJ has its sights set on anyone who they cannot control. After all, it is clear the Intelligence State in the US exerts more biased power than anyone ever truly realized - until now.”
Tyler Nixon, a political analyst and attorney for Donald Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone compared the situation to that of Al Capone, who was ultimately jailed on tax evasion charges despite his widely known history of ordering hits on rival gangsters.
“Frankly, this is [a] disgrace for the justice system,” Nixon told Sputnik. “It doesn't surprise me at all.”
“The tax charges are used to get someone who was involved in a massive corruption off lightly. I've known Hunter Biden for pretty much since I was a young man, when we were children. It is sad to see that he was then involved in such corruption and frankly, just selling [his] country out to some of the worst actors around the world. This is just kind of a negotiated slap on the wrist. And it leaves off the table all of the most serious crimes involving money laundering, involving influence peddling, involving the sale of his father's office and capitalizing on what I consider borderline treason,” he said.
'They've Softballed This'
Nixon said Hunter Biden escaped much stiffer gun charges that have landed others in prison for many years because “he's a child of privilege.”
“I would be shocked if he saw the inside of a prison cell at any point. They've softballed this, they've got him in a diversion program, early diversion, which [is why] he doesn't have a criminal record as far as we know.”
“I don't think he should be treated differently by the system, either more harshly or less harshly based on what he's done. However, the whole thing is the epitome of hypocrisy. His father is the biggest, probably the most virulent drug warrior still alive, who escalated the penalties for drug possession and all sorts of drug offenses in the 1980s and 90s and even into the early 2000s, to a point that thousands, hundreds of thousands, if not even approaching millions of Americans had their lives destroyed for mere possession of different sorts of controlled substances, thanks to Joe Biden.”
“And his son has run around filming himself buying, smoking whatever have you, and constantly using crack cocaine, which was an offense that was actually weighted as more as the crack cocaine they gave harsher penalties. There are generations of Black Americans in the inner city who have been decimated as a result of this disparate sentencing. And his son runs around doing this for years, exploiting people.”
“I mean, Hunter Biden wrote it in his autobiography about this. I guess, some sort of woman in Washington - we don't know if it's a real person or if it was just sort of a literary device - but basically how he spent all this time with this woman in the depths of cocaine use and crack cocaine use. And yet he walks away scot-free. People are rotting in prison to this day for these offenses, and he gets nothing. It's not even addressed, simply only in the context of a gun charge. And similarly, you can bet that no one would be able to negotiate this type of deal, this type of kid-glove treatment, if they were just an inner-city Black person who was involved in any sort of firearms offense that was related to drugs. They would never receive this type of treatment.”
‘No Chance’ DoJ Will Implicate POTUS
Nixon noted that, when it comes to his business activities, federal prosecutors have had more than half a decade to investigate a “mountain of evidence” brought forth, including by his former business partner, Tony Bobulinski. Instead, the DoJ under Attorney General Merrick Garland “has become a Praetorian guard, a protectorate for the Biden family,” he said.
“And there's no chance that any of these serious crimes” Hunter Biden has made a plea deal on “have [anything] to do with his father,” Nixon noted.
2 June 2023, 15:35 GMT
“We have plenty of evidence that has been uncovered in terms of millions of dollars in wire transfers to Biden family members - inexplicably, no business explanation, no valid explanation other than just raw payoffs by foreign nations and foreign actors. None of this is being pursued in any manner whatsoever by anyone within the Department of Justice or in the FBI. Quite the opposite, in fact: they're actively suppressing it, covering up. And the media similarly doesn't have anything to say about it. The corporate media, I should say, certainly in alternative media,” he noted.
“But no, I don't expect anything to come of it. And even if it did, even if there was suddenly a miracle that happened in terms of reversing the personnel decisions and the people involved who have not only covered this up, but in many ways botched the case because to bring the case the chain of custody of evidence and the validity of evidence has to be proven in court. It's been delayed so long, it's been passed through so many hands, who knows? I mean, they could literally botch the case on process even if they did bring it.”
“But even if they did bring it, I guarantee you that Joe Biden would issue a blanket pardon to his son. He may still do so, just to cover the bases before whenever he leaves office,” Nixon said.
30 April 2023, 18:48 GMT
GOP Has ‘Limited Options’
That said, when it comes to the Republican lawmakers in Congress, Nixon said they “have limited options” because it would require the impeachment of US President Joe Biden, for which the GOP lacks “the political temerity.”
“The Republicans are uncovering absolutely criminally chargeable levels of corruption and money laundering and all sorts of influence peddling, you name it, racketeering, in the Bidens’ crime syndicate. And yet I don't think they have the political temerity or the courage to do what's right is, which is, frankly, impeach this president and remove him.”
“But here's the thing: ultimately, the Democrats are about abusing process and abusing power and the spectacle. I would think that even the Republicans I disagree with in the House realize that no matter what they bring in terms of if they were to impeach, bring articles of impeachment, they would be voted out of the House. And there was to be a trial in the Senate that requires a two thirds vote to remove a president - it’s never been done before. And it's just going to be an exercise in futility.”
“It's perilous times for people who believe in justice and equal protection of the laws in America,” he concluded.
