Schweiz­er: The Truth About the Hunter Biden Par­don – A Proxy Deal for the Whole Fam­i­ly

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Schweizer: The Truth About the Hunter Biden Pardon – A Proxy Deal for the Whole Family

Joe Biden’s blan­ket par­don of his son, Hunter, was real­ly a proxy par­don for the whole Biden fam­i­ly that ham­strings ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tions into Biden fam­i­ly influ­ence ped­dling schemes, accord­ing to Peter Schweiz­er.

In the lat­est episode of the Drill Down pod­cast, Schweiz­er points out that the schemes impli­cat­ed not just Hunter but Joe him­self, his broth­ers Frank and James, and oth­er mem­bers of the Biden fam­i­ly. The par­don, “his­tor­i­cal­ly unprece­dent­ed” in its scope, is “a stun­ning acknowl­edg­ment of how cor­rupt this fam­i­ly is,” Schweiz­er says.

Every pres­i­dent has used and some­times abused the par­don pow­er, which is in the Con­sti­tu­tion. In recent years, pres­i­dents have par­doned for­mer polit­i­cal asso­ciates and wealthy sup­port­ers for spe­cif­ic crimes. But the only “full and com­plete par­don” ever issued before was by Pres­i­dent Ger­ald Ford to the dis­graced for­mer pres­i­dent Richard Nixon.

Join­ing Nixon in that elite club is Hunter Biden, who was par­doned for any crimes he may have com­mit­ted between Jan. 1, 2014, and Dec. 1, 2024. As Schweiz­er says in the pod­cast, that was not only an abuse of the par­don pow­er but the action of a not-great father.

In addi­tion to effec­tive­ly end­ing inves­ti­ga­tions into alleged Biden fam­i­ly cor­rup­tion, The Drill Down notes, six oth­er fac­tors should be stressed about Joe Biden’s unprece­dent­ed par­don­ing of his son.

1. The enor­mous scope. Not only was this for a fam­i­ly mem­ber, but it effec­tive­ly made Hunter Biden immune any­thing he might have done for the past 10 years, whether charged or uncharged, con­vict­ed or accused. The pres­i­dent made sure his son could not be charged based on the results of inves­ti­ga­tions that are still ongo­ing into his influ­ence ped­dling.

2. This is a proxy par­don that will extend to Joe Biden and oth­er mem­bers of the Biden fam­i­ly. By par­don­ing Hunter, Biden crip­pled ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tions into influ­ence ped­dling that also impli­cat­ed Joe and his broth­ers Frank and James, who made deals in sim­i­lar fash­ion. Schweiz­er calls it, “a stun­ning acknowl­edg­ment of how cor­rupt this fam­i­ly is.”

3. The tim­ing mat­ters. Why does it specif­i­cal­ly start with Jan. 1, 2014, and end Dec. 1, 2024? Because, Schweiz­er explains, right after the start date is when the mon­ey from Chi­na first began to flow. Hunter trav­eled to Bei­jing aboard Air Force 2 in mid-Decem­ber 2013 and made an invest­ment deal with Chi­nese gov­ern­ment and intel­li­gence-con­nect­ed offi­cials that would lat­er total to about $1.5 bil­lion. In April of 2014 was the Buris­ma deal, when Hunter Biden was giv­en a seat on the board of a Ukrain­ian oil and gas com­pa­ny despite hav­ing absolute­ly no knowl­edge or expe­ri­ence with the ener­gy busi­ness. The Spring of 2014 was also when Hunter Biden secured a deal worth $3.5 mil­lion with Russ­ian bil­lion­aire Ele­na Batu­ri­na. She was hop­ing to be left off the list of Russ­ian oli­garchs that were being sanc­tioned by the US fol­low­ing Vladimir Putin’s first inva­sion of Crimea. (She was nev­er placed on the list.)

What about the end date? This may have to do with Hunter’s lat­er career as an untrained artist who sold his art­works to art lovers for as much as $500,000 apiece. Although pur­chasers were not for­mal­ly dis­closed, some of them received ambas­sador­ships from his father’s admin­is­tra­tion, accord­ing to reports. Some of the art was appar­ent­ly sold to peo­ple in Chi­na. But through the par­don, any of those trans­ac­tions would not be sub­ject to inves­ti­ga­tion and pos­si­ble pros­e­cu­tion, either. Why does he need cov­er­age through all of Novem­ber this year? Joe Biden stepped down from the race in July. Could there be mon­ey com­ing his way after drop­ping out — per­haps nego­ti­at­ed by his key advi­sor, Hunter — that might have war­rant­ed inquiry?

4. A sec­ond bite at Hunter’s immu­ni­ty deal. A pros­e­cu­tor named David Weiss offered Hunter Biden a plea bar­gain in which he admit­ted to the gun charges and the feds dropped the tax charges. This deal was pre­sent­ed to a fed­er­al judge who reject­ed it, and the deal fell apart. Hunter Biden’s attor­neys believed it would grant him total immu­ni­ty from any future pros­e­cu­tion. “This shows how shame­less the Bidens are,” Schweiz­er says. “Their goal was to clear Hunter for every­thing. With the par­don, that’s exact­ly what they are get­ting.”

5. Trump’s elec­tion trig­gered the par­don. Had Kamala Har­ris won the elec­tion, her admin­is­tra­tion would cer­tain­ly have shut down any ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tions by the Jus­tice Depart­ment of a wide influ­ence-ped­dling oper­a­tion by mem­bers of the Biden fam­i­ly. But with Trump’s elec­tion, the risk was too great of Ukraine fur­nish­ing evi­dence to the Trump admin­is­tra­tion of a quid pro quo by then-Vice Pres­i­dent Joe Biden. Recall that as vice pres­i­dent, Biden threat­ened to with­hold aid mon­ey in ear­ly 2017 (before he left office) unless the Ukrain­ian gov­ern­ment fired a pros­e­cu­tor named Vik­tor Shokin who was inves­ti­gat­ing Buris­ma.

6. The crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem does have a dou­ble stan­dard, but not based on race or even wealth. It is based on polit­i­cal con­nec­tions and fam­i­ly con­nec­tions. “I’m a father, too,” Schweiz­er says. “I don’t think it’s accept­able that Joe Biden allowed this to hap­pen. Hunter Biden did what he did because his father allowed him to do it. That’s not being a very good father.”

7. The main­stream media is dead. The air­waves and video streams are full of embar­rass­ing exam­ples of sup­pos­ed­ly objec­tive reporters and com­men­ta­tors applaud­ing Biden in the past for refus­ing to par­don his son. Almost every­thing they told us about Joe Biden has been shown as false. “The curios­i­ty that they once had is com­plete­ly gone,” Schweiz­er says. “They didn’t run sto­ries look­ing into the details of any of this. Even now they con­tin­ue to car­ry water for the Bidens. They told us Trump couldn’t be trust­ed with levers of jus­tice, but look at what Biden did!”

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