Hunter prosecutor unloads in scathing report, blasts Joe’s pardon

Special counsel David Weiss’ final, 280-page report contains a searing indictment of outgoing President Joe Biden.

Weiss, the prosecutor who presided over Hunter Biden’s case, slams Biden for both pardoning his eldest son and also releasing a press release containing “baseless accusations” about the investigation into him.

As previously reported, in the press release Biden accused the investigation by his own Department of Justice of being “selective,” “unfair,” “infected” by “raw politics,” and a “miscarriage of justice.”

“This statement is gratuitous and wrong,” Weiss writes in his report. “Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations.”

“These prosecutions were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics. Eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives,” the special prosecutor adds.

Weiss goes on to bash Biden for “injecting partisanship” into the investigation and undermining the public’s confidence in the criminal justice system.

“Calling those rulings into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America’s justice system fair and equitable,” he writes. “It erodes public confidence in an institution that is essential to preserving the rule of law.”

“Politicians who attack the decisions of career prosecutors as politically motivated when they disagree with the outcome of a case undermine the public’s confidence in our criminal justice system. The President’s statements unfairly impugn the integrity not only of Department of Justice personnel, but all of the public servants making these difficult decisions in good faith,” he added.

The irony, of course, is that these are all things that Democrats, including President Biden, have accused President-elect Donald Trump of doing.

As previously reported, Hunter was charged with firearm offenses and federal tax crime offenses.

Biden for his part previously claimed that the average person is never prosecuted for such allegedly petty offenses.

“Those who were late paying their taxes because of serious addictions, but paid them back subsequently with interest and penalties, are typically given non-criminal resolutions,” he said. “It is clear that Hunter was treated differently.”

Weiss addresses this point in his report, writing that Hunter’s drug abuse doesn’t explain him not paying taxes on all the money he’d earned off of his “last name and connections.”

“As a well-educated lawyer and businessman, Mr. Biden consciously and willfully chose not to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes over a four-year period,” he explains. “From 2016 to 2020, Mr. Biden received more than $7 million in total gross income, including approximately $1.5 million in 2016, $2.3 million in 2017, $2.1 million in 2018, $1 million in 2019 and $188,000 from January through October 15, 2020.”

“Mr. Biden made this money by using his last name and connections to secure lucrative business opportunities, such as a board seat at a Ukrainian industrial conglomerate, Burisma Holdings Limited, and a joint venture with individuals associated with a Chinese energy conglomerate. He negotiated and executed contracts and agreements that paid him millions of dollars for limited work,” he continues.

Weiss adds that Hunter “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills” and that he’d “willfully failed to pay his 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 taxes on time, despite having access to funds to pay some or all of these taxes.”

“The evidence demonstrated that as Mr. Biden held high-paying positions earning him millions of dollars, he chose to keep funding his extravagant lifestyle instead of paying his taxes,” he continues. “He then chose to lie to his accountants in claiming false business deductions when, in fact, he knew they were personal expenses. He did this on his own, and his tax return preparers relied on him, because, among other reasons, only he understood the true nature of his deductions and he failed to give them records that might have revealed that the deductions were bogus.”

Vivek Saxena

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