When Karine Jean-Pierre was quizzed about whether Joe Biden is about to go nuclear, she gave a fast, firm “no” and kept moving. America can rest assured, the mainstream media is reporting, that’s the definitive answer and the end of it. We can trust her. Jonathan Turley is the one who came up with the idea so it’s easy to see why she was expecting that question. And why we’re never going to trust the regime’s version of Sideshow Bob.
Biden about to go nuclear
Joe Biden still has one viable option to protect himself, along with his brother James, sister Valerie and a whole bunch of other people, now that Hunter’s plea deal collapsed. They might have had more luck throwing the playboy crack-head under the bus if the prosecutors would have recommended ten years or so in prison. The judge wouldn’t have had nearly as much to question.
Instead, they tried to get him out of everything, and the rest of the family off the hook for things they’re linked to, through him. The magic deal was for two years probation and a drug diversion program. Adding insult to the injury, Hunter left his coke laying around in the West Wing. Miraculously, the judge was asking exactly the right questions. She gave the parties a month to come up with some good answers but, by then, the whole thing may have collapsed.
While everyone on the Democrat side of Washington, D.C. instantly went into shock over the “collapse of the Hunter Biden plea bargain,” they instinctively turned to damage control only moments later. As professor Turley notes, “after all, this is a city that knows how to fix a fight.”
With the debacle in Delaware, there remains the ultimate "break-the-glass" option for the Bidens: the President could pardon his son and then announce that he will not run for reelection…https://t.co/vWWuZ9VHR5
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 27, 2023
After five years in obscurity, the entire corruption scandal “was supposed to die with a vacuous plea bargain and no jail time.” It was an open secret. “Most everyone was in on the fix, from members of Congress to the media to the prosecutors.” Everyone except Judge Maryellen Noreika of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, God Bless her soul.
As the George Washington University Law School professor describes, the sentencing hearing for Hunter Biden “was a moment that made the Hindenburg disaster look like a seamless landing. Noreika asked a basic question on the implications of the agreement, and the entire deal immediately collapsed.”
What should have been a half-hour hearing to rubber stamp the deal turned into an extended ordeal lasting more than three hours. At the end, everyone came scampering out of the courthouse at a trot, afraid to show their faces on camera. You could see what a disaster it was from the panic stricken looks on their faces.
DOJ in a bind
Merrick Garland and his herd of rats guarding the government cheese are “in a bind,” Turley explains. They “could not admit in the hearing that Hunter Biden could escape future liability for a host of uncharged crimes. Yet, when a defendant backs out of a generous plea deal, federal prosecutors ordinarily will pursue all of the available charges — and jail time.”
The judge signaled that she was not happy with a probation only sentence. Misdemeanors aren’t supposed to be charged when there are felonies on the table. At this point, they simply have to “actually treat Hunter like an ordinary citizen.” With the public watching closely.
It’s pretty clear from what happened that they are not going to be able to slide the important crimes quietly off to the side. Hunter will most likely be charged with violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act.
🚨Vice President Joe Biden meeting Hunter Biden's foreign business partners.
November 2010: Joe Biden had a sit-down meeting with Eric Schwerin – the president of Hunter's private equity firm – in the West Wing.
November 2011: Joe Biden met with Chris Heinz — a co-founder of… pic.twitter.com/a9wUz5HwxY
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) July 28, 2023
After they charged Gal Luft with that, they have to charge Hunter Biden because they were working together on the same deal at the time. The one that resulted in millions from the Chinese through CEFC China Energy. That FARA charge will open up the investigation and start dragging all the other family members into the net.
The only thing left is what professor Turley calls the ultimate “break-the-glass” option. “Joe Biden could pardon his son and then announce that he will not run for reelection.” He can make himself a martyr and save the whole family. It will ruin his legacy but he really doesn’t care because he could die at any moment. He can’t remember anything that happened between 5 minutes ago and 50 years back. He remembers his childhood perfectly. He relives his life’s high-point of busting Corn Pop’s bubble with a length of chain at the swimming hole like it was yesterday. Joe’s more concerned about what flavor ice cream he gets.
“Facing an impeachment inquiry, low public support, and a son in the legal dock, Biden could use the case to close out his political career. Of course, a pardon would be what I consider another abuse of the pardon power for personal benefit. President Bill Clinton waited until the end of his second term to pardon his half-brother. Biden could do the same by acknowledging that the pardoning of his son is a form of raw self-dealing. However, as he has said throughout the scandal, he loves his son and blames his crimes on his struggle with addiction and grieving.“
