As the evidence mounts against the president, it is increasingly swept under the rug. 
Hunter Indictment Designed Specifically to Avoid Joe Biden
The New York Post reports Hunter Indictment Designed Specifically to Avoid Joe Biden
The steps taken by Hunter to evade taxes are impressive, but not nearly as impressive as the efforts of the Justice Department to evade any direct implications for his father, President Biden. In that sense, the indictment itself is a marvel of evasion.
There are three glaring omissions in the indictment that tend to shield critical payments and conduct that implicate the president.
The Burisma-Ukrainian money
First, the special counsel only indicts tax evasion that occurred in recent years.
That’s because the long “investigation” into Hunter inexplicably allowed the statute of limitations to expire on the most controversial payments from Ukraine gas company Burisma.
Recent testimony from IRS whistleblowers suggests that wasn’t an accident. Investigators were stonewalled, they claimed, and the Justice Department was previously moving to reject any charges against Hunter Biden.
Exploring those earlier Ukrainian payments opens up questions about Hunter’s influence peddling and would have highlighted the conflict in his father’s extraordinary move to force the Ukrainians to fire a prosecutor investigating Burisma by holding back a billion dollars in aid for the country.
There is still no explanation why special counsel David Weiss would allow the statute of limitations to run out.
Hunter the foreign agent
Also missing in the indictment is any charge against Hunter Biden as an unregistered foreign agent.
Recently, the Justice Department added a charge to the indictment of Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) that he ran afoul of FARA, the Foreign Agents Registration Act. FARA also was used to go after Donald Trump associates such as Paul Manafort.
The problem with charging Hunter with FARA is obvious.
It opens up questions about the millions of dollars going to the Biden family from foreign sources, a topic that Attorney General Merrick Garland has spent years avoiding.
The unindicted co-conspirator
By focusing on tax evasion alone, Weiss again avoids any direct reference to the focus of the influence-peddling used to raise these millions of dollars.
Even without mentioning the president, the implications of the indictment are devastating for the narrative and denials of Joe Biden.
The president has continued to maintain that he had no knowledge or interaction with these dealings. Those statements are clearly and knowingly false.
This was a truly Homeric feat — unseen since the Greek hero Odysseus won a competition by shooting an arrow through the tiny hole in a dozen ax heads.
It takes perfect aim to avoid any contact. It is itself the very model of evasion.
The NY Post article was written by Jonathan Turley is an attorney and professor at George Washington University Law School.
So don’t attack the Post unless you can dispute the logic of Turley .
New, Damning to the President, Emails Surface
New emails suggest what Burisma really wanted from the Bidens according to the Wall Street Journal.
The Journal comments on Joe Biden’s Assist to Hunter’s Business
Internal Revenue Service agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler provided to the House Ways and Means Committee more information from their multiyear investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes and business.
The documents include an 11-page log showing a list of 327 emails that Joe Biden sent or received from 2010 to 2019 under pseudonyms that included “robinware456” and “robert.l.peters.” Mr. Biden was a big user of these shadow accounts, with the National Archives and Records Administration disclosing that it has up to 82,000 pages of emails and documents sent or received under Biden aliases while he was Vice President.
The 327 emails listed in the log are exchanges between Joe Biden and Hunter or Eric Schwerin, a former Hunter business partner who handled Biden family finances. The committee says 54 of the exchanges are between Joe Biden and Mr. Schwerin.
Five emails were exchanged within five days of Mr. Biden’s June 2014 trip to Ukraine, while another 27 were exchanged prior to his return trip to Ukraine in November 2014. Those trips coincided with Hunter’s lucrative board position at Ukrainian energy firm Burisma.
The trips preceded then Vice President’s Biden’s 2015 role in forcing the ouster of a Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma and its CEO, Nikolai Zlochevsky, for corruption. Another 38 emails originated from within the White House and were sent to Joe Biden aliases, with Hunter Biden copied.
Ways and Means also received new emails from Mr. Ziegler that are revealing about what Burisma wanted from Hunter. One email is from Vadym Pozharsky, an adviser to Burisma, to Hunter in April 2015. The Ukrainian thanked Hunter for “the opportunity to meet your father and spent (sp) some time together.”
An October 2016 email between a Blue Star employee and Mr. Schwerin includes the news that the Ukrainian government had ended its probe into Mr. Zlochevsky (about eight months after the Ukrainian prosecutor was fired). Mr. Schwerin congratulates the team on its “awesome work.” The Blue Star employee writes: “Thanks. U brought us in so take a victory lap.”
All of this suggests Joe Biden was fully aware that Hunter was selling the family “brand,” and that the Vice President was helping with the sale. It also raises new questions about the connection between Hunter’s job at Burisma and Joe’s work getting the Ukrainian prosecutor of Mr. Zlochevsky fired. None of it looks good.
New Hunter Biden Tax Charges Raise More Questions
Nine New Hunter Biden Tax Charges Open More Questions Than Answers
Yesterday, I commented Nine New Hunter Biden Tax Charges Open More Questions Than Answers
Hunter has no way now of escaping the felony charges that should land him in prison. And a noose draws tighter on Joe.
A total of $1.4 million in taxes was allegedly evaded and Biden faces up to 17 years behind bars. He is accused of “willfully” avoiding paying his taxes and faces three felony charges and six misdemeanor charges.
Hoot of the Day
In response to my article, I was asked if these charges would have been brought if Biden had not been president.
Accused of Politics
Every time I write a post like this I get accused of politics. However, I have written similar posts about Trump and have many scars to prove it.
At times, I have praised actions of both presidents. Joe botched getting out of Afghanistan, but at least he did. Trump promised to get out of Afghanistan and Syria and did neither.
Biden gets a merit in my book for doing the right thing despite messing up the exit. If Trump could have done better, then why didn’t he?
I am strongly against the US trying to be the world’s policeman, squandering trillions of dollars overseas that would have better been spent here.
You may disagree. And that’s fine as long as you tell me how we are going to pay for our meddling.
But my point is I praise actions I like, and trash those I don’t, regardless of party.
Impeachment Investigation Merited
An impeachment investigation of Joe is merited, based on the evidence at hand.
The Washington Post claim there is no evidence is preposterous.
A huge amount of evidence directly points to the president despite the massive and still ongoing efforts by the special prosecutor and Joe himself to sweep everything under the rug.
Any Lawyers Tuned In?
Here is my question: If there is purposeful concealment of evidence and purposeful delays to make the statute of limitations expire, is there a legal case to challenge the expiration?
Addendum
Related to my legal question, consider a WSJ editorial on Taxes and the Law that I had not seen earlier. Here is the key snip.
Earlier this year Mr. Biden struck a sweetheart plea bargain with Mr. Weiss that included only two misdemeanor tax charges. But that deal was derailed when two Internal Revenue Service investigators on the case went public with details of how their probe had been stymied at the Justice Department.
Gary Shapley of the IRS related stories of blocked search warrants, tip-offs to Hunter’s team about investigating plans, downgraded charges and interference by President Biden’s appointees. Mr. Shapley told Congress that the Justice Department, its Tax Division, and officials in the Delaware U.S. Attorney’s Office “provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest.”
Mr. Shapley says that in late 2021 IRS investigators prepared a document covering tax years 2014-2019, in which it recommended the charges against Hunter that Mr. Weiss finally brought this week. When Mr. Weiss attempted to bring those charges last year, he was blocked by U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada of Central California. Only after the whistleblowers went public did Attorney General Merrick Garland give Mr. Weiss special-counsel standing with the authority to bring the indictments regardless of jurisdiction.
The political interference allowed the statute of limitations to lapse on Hunter’s 2014 and 2015 tax returns, which Mr. Shapley says contained the most egregious conduct, including a possible Foreign Agents Registration Act violation. As for the charges Hunter now faces, countless Americans have been indicted and gone to jail for tax evasion of far less than $1.4 million. And the President’s son deserves his day in court like all of those other Americans.
I am not a lawyer, but to me this seems similar to a double jeopardy situation in which a person cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
But a second trial might be allowed if the defendant was never in jeopardy the first time.
In the Hunter Biden case, we have “provided preferential treatment and unchecked conflicts of interest.”
Here is the key piece: “When Mr. Weiss attempted to bring those charges last year, he was blocked by U.S. Attorney Martin Estrada of Central California.“
These actions make my case: The statute of limitations did not run out because prosecutors were purposely blocked from presenting the case.
JB is a horrible father
A perfectly presidential phone call to Zelenski to dig up dirt on Joe…
4 years of a DOJ subservient to Trump…
and still, no facts to support any indictments.
Say Anything Republicans cling to their alternative facts…
alternate delegates…
and a Day 1 Only Dictator.
Sad.
Joe has been a cheater, liar for decades..
Finally some real news about Hunter…along with Joe..they both could be locked up soon.
The Democratic controlled Administrative State in DC has and will be the ENEMY of the American people along with the propaganda of the media. Congress is it’s lap dog. Trump’s Schedule F was a start quashed by his loss
Who gains from these charges? Could it be Democrats who want more power but outside the Biden regime? Yes. Newsom has everything to gain from it and the charges are from CA. He loses nothing. Only gains along with his posse who want the power. Nobody else gains anything, Not Republicans, not the current Democrat cartel. Just Newsom and his machine.
It’s all a diversion away from the real issue here – MASSIVE CORRUPTION.
If President Trump had done 0.1% of what the Biden’s have done, he’d be in jail right now.
I agree 100% with this comment.
He’s going to be in jail…Trump has been a corrupt arse for decades. He should have just walked off into the sunset after he lost…now…they’re going to put him in the slammer.
Did I miss something about “The Donald” doing something big?
It’s excruciating watching them dot all the I’s and cross all the T’s… but he’s going down, and he ain’t getting up. Meanwhile the whole party is hoping he’ll stroke out before the election so he stops spending all their campaign money on lawyer bills. Turns out employing criminals is expensive.
If by some miracle he wins the election, The Swamp will just thump him again until his term is over. For all he runs his mouth, he is a weak, confused, ineffective leader, and he put the final nail in the coffin of the GOP. If they can’t pull off a coup in the next year or so, they’re done anywhere but the most sh*t hole red states.
Almost $700K spent on hookers over three years. Next, we need the money spent on blow. Supposedly he did $1.4M in ATM withdrawals. He’s guilty alright and so is FJB.
Hurry up, Jordan & Comer. Time’s a wasting & can’t wait to see the UniParty RINOs who STILL won’t vote for an impeachment inquiry. The corruption & lack of leadership runs deep on both sides of the aisle.
Spending money on hookers and pornstars may not be edifying behavior, especially if you are politician. But Hunter Biden is not a politician, and, unlike a certain former president, he has not been credibly accused of much worse behavior, I.e. rape, in a court of law. Hunter Biden should certainly not run for public office given his behavior, but why we are supposed to hold our noses in the case of Trump is a mystery to a centrist like me.
This is about the whole Biden crime syndicate and the network of shell companies they layered into to the fraud to conceal what were obviously bribes and pay-to-play schemes. “Come on man!”
Trump’s entire career has been a massive network of shell companies…and hookers / pornstars, etc. He’s going to jail…just like most of the wankers that invaded the Capital Building.
Wutz a wanker?
David C is a prime example.
“invaded” by walking in with police escorting them in what looked like a dull school field trip to a museum?
Trump’s career was not in politics, unlike Biden, who has more form…
I believe those ”Rape” Charges against Trump are Lies Instigated by Pelosi and the Corrupt Democrats who are Desperate to stay in Power….Just as they did with Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh ,,,These Women Know they can get away with ”Cry Rape” with absolutely No Consequences and the Democrats will, and have used it to bring down many Good Men.
Standard tactic, used against Assange as well.
It tends not to work so well against lefties because they advertise and try to legalize and even mandate their sexual deviency.
You’re not a centrist.
Joe Biden was complicit in some of Hunter Biden’s crimes, an accomplice, and not just any politician. Trumped up charges against Trump only weaken the position of his enemies. I’m not even American, but I can see the poll numbers, and from the outside looking in, the whole Democrat regime looks appalling – far worse than the EU, and more like the CCP, though not as evil.
He probably got more bang for the buck than trump. 135k for 3 minutes with Stormy is well above the going rate.
And you have the credit card receipts to prove it, no doubt.
The volume of evidence, the magnitude of the transactions and evasions, the overt weaponization of government to shield and protect this conduct, and the brazenness of denying what is overwhelmingly obvious here is unprecedented except maybe what we’ve seen with Hillary’s illegal server and slush fund masquerading as a charity. There is no forgiveness for regime media in this cover up. They manufacture a phony Russia hoax and run the story for five plus years but can’t be bothered to investigate crimes when the evidence is literally dumped in their laps. We are just a Banana Republic with nuclear weapons.
Ummmm….we’ve seen even more crazy stuff from Orange Orangutan Man. He’s about as crooked as they come. Time for him to hang out in the pokey.
Is “Pokey” like the HOKEY POKEY?
That will be his Obi-wan moment… Dumbocrats would never have to worry about Trump beating them if they could only manage to ignore him. Trump is a bogeyman of your own invention and you keep feeding the troll… because you are one.
If you have real evidence, put it on the table. What you are regurgitating is MAGA hogwash you can hear on Steve Bannon’s disinformation podcast repeated every day (when he doesn’t try to peddle useless gold coins or pillows).
Mountains! They have MOUNTAINS of it over at Mike Pillow’s house.
The evidence is all out there in public for the WaPo and NYT etc… to ignore.
Joe Biden is obviously corrupt, like most of the politicians who will decide whether to impeach him. Anyone who believes otherwise is naive.
Thank you for recognizing how one-sided media is one of the worse things for our democracy and how it threatens our freedom.
Cannot believe this result is much of surprise to anyone.
Typical slimy and partisan politics.
Clearly there should be people within the government charged with obstruction of justice. Any directions Joe gave to the justice department to get the statute of limitations to run out occurred during his presidency and would be impeachable offenses.
From Google Bard:Here’s a timeline of key events related to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan:
February 2020: Trump administration signs a peace agreement with the Taliban, setting a withdrawal deadline for May 1, 2021.
November 2020: Biden wins the presidential election.
January 2021: Biden takes office and inherits the withdrawal agreement.
April 2021: Biden announces that the US will not meet the May 1 withdrawal deadline and will instead complete the withdrawal by September 11, 2021.
May 2021: US begins withdrawing troops from Afghanistan.
August 2021: Taliban takes control of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan.
September 2021: US completes withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Therefore, while President Biden did ultimately oversee the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the process had already begun under President Trump.
Correct !, AND What a Freaking Disaster That was !…Loss of Lives by Both Americans and Afghani’s….Not to Mention the Military Equipment given to the Taliban to eventually be used against it;s Enemies,,,(Hint US )!,,,Slow Joe and His Handlers need to be Impeached and Charged for ALL Crimes committed against the American people…The Sooner, The Better.
Irrespective of the spin from Google’s fake AI, the polls tell a clear story… the moment Biden withdrew from Afghanistan, his polls started to tank, and they have never really recovered. This is like fumbling in the endzone… I mean you can’t even beat Trump… how lame must you be?!
“Biden gets a merit in my book for doing the right thing despite messing up the exit. If Trump could have done better, then why didn’t he?”
I believe the withdrawal was well underway while Trump was president, only to be abruptly and badly concluded once Biden took over.
You answer your own question really.
There’s definitely a smoking gun, but there’s a whole lot of powerful people protecting Biden because without Biden (the puppet) they have no power.
George Orwell was correct, All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
or “all criminals are equal, but some criminals are more equal than others”.
“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” When someone says “no evidence” they mean they don’t think you are going to be able to find the evidence or that they don’t think you have the evidence, not that it conclusively doesn’t exist. Otherwise they would say “I didn’t do it” or “that is false”.
But anyway it seems where we live in a world where certain judges believe they can convict Trump of fraud without any trial, evidence, or even a victim of the alleged crime. In the world where we live guilt is determined by who you are, not what you did. We’re right back to Salem.
Makes Drump a little Witch then.
It always was, and always is. The rules are a nicety, to be used against people cynically as opportunities ebb and flow. The more flow there is of lawfare impeding the democratic process, the more ebb there will be afterwards – the left will reap what it has sown.
Hunter got his job at Burisma because he was the son of (the influential politician) Joe Biden. If Joe Biden was a un-important politician then Hunter would have gotten zero “financial support”.
Impeachment of Joe Biden ? Why does it take so long for the Republicans to find enough evidence to impeach the president if Biden is guilty ? The previous impeachment hearings were all based on hear-say. Even Turley personally didn’t have solid evidence that was good enough to make the impeachment stick.
Impeachment of Biden ? He should be impeached for supporting the israeli massacre in Gaza.
Why so mean ? You,ve got to remember that Washington DC is a VERY expensive city to buy a house and live in.
Best to rent as it’s usually not wise to buy until you know how long they want you to stay.
E.g.: the Ukraine proxy war… a clear case of rent-a-crisis, whose tenancy has expired.
Term limit for all politicians may not be the answer but the best we can hope for to minimize corruption. President – 1 term, Senators – 1 term & Congress men/women/others — 2 terms.
The President is already limited to 2 terms. Senators and Congress are who needs to be limited.
The way things have been going, you’d be better off with a randomly selected president to serve a single 1-year term. Of course, that would suit the American Civil Service (“the deep state”), as they would be even more in control. There is no ideal solution.
The justice department also has whistle blowers claiming they weren’t allowed to pursue Rudy and were told to only investigate Bidens, no trumps.
After a half century of penny-ante corruption, Chicago Alderman Burke finally got pursued by the Feebs in a parking lot paving permit shakedown at a Burger King, “did we land the tuna?”, after BK corporate said ‘WTF?’.
Nothing about the current Illinois governor on the other end of that fateful phone call with Governor Blago auctioning off the U.S. senate seat.
So “six ways to Sunday”, but not every Sunday for some.
By the way, Mish, ‘the U.S.as world’s policeman’ is translated to ‘MIC purposes only’. Confessions Of An Economic Hitman – John Perkins
The question that is rarely asked, and never answered, is what product or service did Hunter bring to the table that had a value in the millions of dollars?
Clearly, not much apart from his father’s name. But did Trump’s son in law bring any significant investment acumen to the table when the Saudis handed him 2 billion? Apparently not according to the Saudi fund’s own board. But Kushner got it because he Trump’s son in law. It doesn’t follow that Kushner or Hunter Biden did anything illegal.
US public debt… passed across to numbered Swiss bank accounts?
I guess if you wanted to have some dark ops or research, a medium-sized corrupt eastern-European state like Ukraine wouldn’t be the worst choice.
Legally, there is no requirement to show direct payments to a politician to convict for bribery – payments to family members is sufficient.
There is no doubt that all of the money was paid to Hunter Biden in order to influence Joe Biden. Why else would you give such an unaccomplished idiot any money? However I haven’t seen any evidence that Joe Biden took any money from Hunter or that it influenced any policy. So if any such evidence finally does surface, be sure to write about it.
“Why else would you give such an unaccomplished idiot any money?”
It’s a #DumbAge thing. After all: Virtually every penny in the US has been handed over to similarly unaccomplishefd idiots post ’71. It’s not as if Hunter stands out in any particular way, in any company of “bilionaires” and other “elites” these days. And also: Exactly that, is the sole and only reason central banking was invented in the first place.
Obviously all that money may have been paid to Hunter because he knows how to procure the best women and drugs. Auditioning hookers and testing drugs was a necessary part of his work.
The democrat want to Epstein Trump.