I agree with everything you say, except I think you missed a key point. This pardon was not to protect Hunter Biden. It was to protect Joe Biden and his entire family from criminal prosecution.
Joe and his lawyer are smart enough to know that a common law enforcement tactic to roll up an organized crime ring is to catch one member and the…
I agree with everything you say, except I think you missed a key point. This pardon was not to protect Hunter Biden. It was to protect Joe Biden and his entire family from criminal prosecution.
Joe and his lawyer are smart enough to know that a common law enforcement tactic to roll up an organized crime ring is to catch one member and then give that person a plea bargain in exchange for testifying against all the other members of the ring. This leverages one charge into many charges, potentially destroying the entire ring.
Hunter Biden without a pardon would be an obvious target of such a tactic. The breadth and duration of the pardon show its true intent. It was to absolve Hunter of crimes that he has not yet been charged with.
So Joe was pardoning Joe and his entire family of potential charges involving influence peddling, but without obviously doing so.
I agree with everything you say, except I think you missed a key point. This pardon was not to protect Hunter Biden. It was to protect Joe Biden and his entire family from criminal prosecution.
Joe and his lawyer are smart enough to know that a common law enforcement tactic to roll up an organized crime ring is to catch one member and then give that person a plea bargain in exchange for testifying against all the other members of the ring. This leverages one charge into many charges, potentially destroying the entire ring.
Hunter Biden without a pardon would be an obvious target of such a tactic. The breadth and duration of the pardon show its true intent. It was to absolve Hunter of crimes that he has not yet been charged with.
So Joe was pardoning Joe and his entire family of potential charges involving influence peddling, but without obviously doing so.