The Biden Family’s infamous dual standard of justice was on full display Tuesday morning when Delaware U.S. Attorney David Weiss disclosed the details of Hunter Biden’s plea deal. Weiss had been investigating allegations of tax and firearm violations involving the president’s son for more than five years.
Hunter will plead guilty to two misdemeanor tax charges after failing to pay federal income tax in 2017 and 2018 – he owed more than $1 million in back taxes. He will also admit that he illegally possessed a firearm after lying on an ATF Form 4473 during a 2018 handgun purchase in Delaware. Hunter denied he was a narcotics user on the 4473 despite his self-documented crack cocaine addiction.
Unlike Miracle Star Vaughn, a 27-year-old woman from North Liberty, Iowa, who was sentenced last month to serve 366 days in a federal prison for lying on a 4473 about her drug use, Hunter will not see the inside of a federal prison for his false statements. He got a pass. Instead, federal prosecutors will allow him to enter a two-year diversion program. If Hunter behaves for two years, and the odds of that are iffy, the federal gun charge will be dismissed. Hunter will not be a convicted felon and will not forfeit any rights.
So much for Joe Biden’s much-ballyhooed war on guns. So much for cracking down on illegal firearm sales. So much for the Biden-Harris administration’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal firearm possession. If a Biden is involved, Lady Justice is not blind because Joe removed her blindfold and put his meaty thumb on her scale.
Were anyone other than a Biden caught with a platoon of Eurotrash hookers, lashings of cocaine, and videos of nude handgun brandishing, the ATF would bury them under a federal prison for decades. But Hunter got a pass.
Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of his preferential treatment is that everyone – everyone – saw it coming. No one expected Hunter to do any time, much less hard time. Everyone knew the fix was in.
In a failed attempt to maintain some credibility, U.S. Attorney David Weiss said Tuesday that despite the plea deal, the investigation is “ongoing,” a nod to the Burisma probes conducted by various House committees. Sure, Dave. Whatever.
Weiss takes his orders from Attorney General Merrick Garland, who is busy ignoring bribery allegations involving Hunter’s dad. The younger Biden is off Garland’s radar, most likely for good.
President Trump once joked that he could shoot someone “in the middle of Fifth Avenue” and he wouldn’t lose any voters. Hunter Biden could actually do it, high on cocaine, bare-assed naked and surrounded by U.S. Attorneys and plenty of hookers, and he wouldn’t spend a day in jail.
There is no justice at the Department of Justice anymore. There is one set of rules for the Bidens and their ilk and another for us lowly non-Bidens.
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About Lee Williams
Lee Williams, who is also known as “The Gun Writer,” is the chief editor of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Until recently, he was also an editor for a daily newspaper in Florida. Before becoming an editor, Lee was an investigative reporter at newspapers in three states and a U.S. Territory. Before becoming a journalist, he worked as a police officer. Before becoming a cop, Lee served in the Army. He’s earned more than a dozen national journalism awards as a reporter, and three medals of valor as a cop. Lee is an avid tactical shooter.
“I refuse to be lectured on gun control by an administration that armed the Taliban……and, has a crack addicted, 4473 lying son.” Primary comment from Warrior XII tee, tag comment by me.
According to Andy at AR15.com news on YouTube, the most likely reason that the DOJ was so eager to make the gun charge go away was that Hunter’s legal team was going to turn it into a 2A case using the Bruen historical analogue requirement. Unlike Miracle Star Vaughn or Deja Taylor, Hunter has the resources to take the case all the way. He’d just have to sell a few more of his paintings or “write “ another tell all book. When it comes to guns there are plenty of times the government has backed off when they realized their… Read more »
Not sure hunter could sell any paintings to fund an anti-gun control law suit. After all only reason people buy them is to laundry bribes to his father. Dad would be forced to put up or shut up – either support his son or support his dictatorial ambitions. My bet would be on the second. If he went the other way, it’s likely he’d lose massive political support as he could no longer be counted on as a mouthpiece for anti-human rights.
Contrast this with January 6 attendees locked up for years for doing nothing, in some cases. I grieve for my country.
You and me both!
Correct Lee we have a double standard and the department of Justice is no longer the department of Justice. Infact it is the department of ” injustice” under the current installed lack of leadership .
Best part of this story is that Biden says “Hunter did nothing wrong.” If I get audited or make a mistake on 4473 can I quote the president on this? I’m not a drug user but know many across the country who have pot-licenses. If any of them get busted for similar charges – can they quote the president as explanation of why charges should be dropped? I notice that lying on 4473 charge is set aside, but if Hunter is caught “misbehaving” within the next two years that charge will be resurrected. Likelihood of biden still being president in… Read more »
atf and fbi should be jailed for conspiracy , there are more bad agents than good
Any agent that doesn’t speak up is supporting the bad ones. 90% of the agents make the good ones look bad.
You are right! But since no one in those agencies has clean hands, all of them having blood on them from aiding and abetting each other to commit crimes, all of them need to be fired. Immediately!!
If there really are any good people there, they would quit their criminal jobs! So you can’t really say that there are any good people in the FBI or ATF, can you? All that you have, is a gray scale range of men and women who are all guilty of committing crimes, some of them worse than the others!
Good luck with him getting voted out. Lol
neato, he gets to plead three felonies to misdemeanors and a get out of jail free card.
where did he get the money that he failed to pay taxes for? any investigation on that?
progs/leftist screamed tyrant when trump kept illegals in mexico, but when they wield their political power in a corrupt and immoral way, crickets.
does this Suprise anyone we really need some reps. to press the issue and have him jail along with his worthless father
Do as I have been doing. Quit feeding the machine. If it’s ok for Hunter than it’s fine for me.
I have long supported a taxpayer rebellion.
Please look up the definition of the word of art Taxpayer, in a law dictionary. You are welcome, Oldman!
Oldvet — Exactamundo. This was only done to say, look; we ‘did something’…. DOJ isn’t biased while also being weaponized…. no…the sky’s not blue, noooo…
Hmmmm…. 2 of the man of dementia’s socalled policies, anti-gun rhetoric and pay your fair share of taxes, are negated! Should he ever dare utter either again, he needs to be vigorously slammed with “BUT WHAT ABOUT HUNTER!?”
What a bunch of damned lying, underhanded, cheating, reprehensible reprobates! These sorry politicians need to be tried, convicted and shot! It all goes along with the rest of the idiocy in the left and Northeast coasts. And a bunch of other big idiot-run cities and states. All I can say is that I’m happy I’m old! I don’t have to put up with all this bullshit too much longer. This crap is absolutely NOT what I spent 20 years in the Military for. It seems as though my life’s wasted seeing people like this running the country.
(Off rant).
That’s a GREAT post there, Bob! I’m glad that my father passed back in 2005, so he wouldn’t be seeing what we are being subjected to! He came out of Guadalcanal without so much as a scratch, unlike his buddy who died not more than three feet away from him! If he knew any of this, he’d be spinning in his grave!
It must be nice to be able to commit dozens of documented felonies and still be able to sell your finger paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Or, just walk around breathing free air, for that matter.
The “Four Boxes Diner” has the latest skinny on the 2A. So does the “Armed Scholar”.