Hunter Biden, Please Say it Again, Just a Little Bit Nicer

Joe Biden: “No one F’s with a Biden”. The arrogance of that sentence explains a lifetime of graft followed by countless mulligans exceeded by no one in modern history.

‘Say it Nicer’: Hunter Makes a Familiar Last-Minute Offer to Congress

Seldom do I run into an article that I cannot condense down to a handful of paragraphs. But this is one of those times.

I highly recommend reading in entirety ‘Say it Nicer’: Hunter Makes a Familiar Last-Minute Offer to Congress by Jonathan Turley, Professor of Public Interest Law at the George Washington University Law School.

Background: Hunter Biden refused to testify in Congress. He is now seeking a second “valid subpoena”. The first one was entirely valid.

Teaser Snips

For decades, Hunter has conveyed an attitude that laws do not apply to him or to other Biden family members. After all, as his father once said, “no one f**ks with a Biden.”

Since he was a young man, Hunter seems to have been told that he lives a life of privilege that entitles him to considerations denied to others. Indeed, in Washington, it was an open joke when Hunter was put on the Amtrak board and later made its vice chair. When pressed on his lack of credentials for the position, Democratic Senator Tom Carper of Delaware quipped that “Hunter Biden has spent a lot of time on Amtrak trains.”

Not surprisingly, Hunter’s life of entitlement would lead to a life of excess and debauchery. He was one of Washington’s noble class, a scion of a political dynasty. In time, he would be brought into the family business of influence-peddling with his uncles. For decades, the Bidens have been accused of selling access and influence to Joe Biden.

As the Justice Department noted in its tax charges, Hunter spent his money on “drugs, escorts and girlfriends, luxury hotels and rental properties, exotic cars, clothing, and other items of a personal nature, in short, everything but his taxes.”

Hunter is now effectively telling Congress to “say it nicer,” and he just might appear. The problem is that the original subpoena was valid, and Congress does not have to ask a second time. There are no mulligans when it comes to criminal contempt.

It is likely that Hunter and his counsel expect that the fix is in, again, at the Justice Department. Given his last-minute offer (as when he paid his taxes at the last minute), Hunter no doubt hopes the Justice Department will decline to prosecute.

For Hunter, it is not about the fact that he committed a crime. That is for ordinary people. It is about being a Biden, and being entitled to a lifetime of mulligans.

Contempt of Congress

Please note that Former White House Advisor Convicted of Contempt of Congress

Former White House advisor Peter K. Navarro, 72, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today by a U.S. District Court jury of two counts of contempt of Congress stemming from his failure to comply with a subpoena issued by the United States House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.

Navarro was an advisor to Trump. Also note Stephen K. Bannon Sentenced to Four Months in Prison on Two Counts of Contempt of Congress

Bannon, 68, was found guilty by a jury on July 22, 2022, of one contempt count related to his refusal to appear for a deposition and another count related to his refusal to produce documents in response to a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. The verdict followed a trial in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

With glee the Democrats prosecuted Navarro and Bannon. Both were in contempt of Congress.

But Hunter will get a mulligan. Not a singe Democrat voted to hold Hunter in contempt.

Newsweek Comments

Newsweek commented on the Scathing Rebuke by Turley.

“The stunt caused pandemonium and infuriated members of Congress. Hunter demanded that they yield to his demands,” he wrote. “Once again, Democrats unanimously voted to protect him, even though they had demanded the same depositions in the past.”

Turley then pointed to when President Biden called for accountability from those who defied congressional subpoenas from the January 6 House select committee, which investigated the events surrounding the U.S. Capitol riot led by supporters of Donald Trump on January 6, 2021.

“Indeed, President Biden himself said that such defiance could never be tolerated in others. When asked about Trump supporters defying subpoenas he declared, ‘I hope that the committee goes after them and holds them accountable criminally,’” Turley wrote, adding, “Those people, however, are not Bidens.”

In a letter to the House Oversight and Judiciary committees on Friday, Hunter’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, said that his client would comply for a deposition if a new “proper” subpoena was issued.

What’s Next?

Given the first subpoena was valid, the House should not issue another.

If the full House approves the contempt citation, it would then be up to federal prosecutors to pursue a criminal case.

The fix may already be in. After all, “No one F’s with a Biden“.

If the Department of Justice and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia refuse to prosecute the charge, that will be the end of it as least as far as Hunter is concerned.

However, the stench will last through the election. As a campaign issue, it may be better for Republicans if the DOJ and the D.C. Attorney do refuse to prosecute.

If you have not already done so, please go back to that top link to see what Hunter has gotten away with already.