Biden Pardons Son As DOJ Persecutes His Political Opponents

President Joe Biden pardoned three turkeys over the Thanksgiving holiday: his would-be dinner, Peach and Blossom, the poultry; and his privileged son Hunter Biden, the paltry.

The cozy, blanket pardon, stretches all the way back to 2014, when Hunter was just a widdle boy, and it forgives Baby Hunter’s federal crimes, including an illegal gun purchase and not paying his taxes to the IRS, which were not such big deals, according to Papa Biden. You see, says Joe, the boy, now 54, is strictly being persecuted because of politics.

“I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” Biden said Sunday in a statement. “No reasonable person who looks at the facts of Hunter’s cases can reach any other conclusion than Hunter was singled out only because he is my son — and that is wrong.”

Unfairly prosecuted?

Does Biden mean like the nearly 1,500 Americans who have been charged by the Department of Justice (DOJ) for exercising their constitutional right to freely assemble in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6, 2021 to ask questions about the outcome of the 2020 election? Of those, 180 have been sentenced to up to 12.5 years in federal prison. Most simply walked inside the taxpayer-funded Capitol Building — if they went inside at all. When the people come knocking, elected officials should pause to hear what their constituents have to say, not send the FBI to their homes over the next four years and incarcerate them.

Many who participated in Jan. 6 were forced to accept plea bargains in which they must admit guilt. For example, Melanie Lanham Shaler (formerly Archer) of Pittsburgh, a mother of three, spent 13 minutes peacefully inside the Capitol building.

“The defendant knew she did not have permission to be inside the Capitol,” her plea bargain papers say. “She then walked to the Rotunda. Additionally, she walked through a corridor on the third floor of the Capitol Building … Archer took a number of photos while she was on the restricted Capitol grounds and inside the building … Defendant admits that while inside the Capitol, defendant willfully and knowingly paraded, demonstrated, or picketed.”

After a year of court filings and hearings during which the possibility of a federal prison sentence hung over her head, she agreed to plead guilty and was sentenced to pay $500 in restitution and was put on probation for 18 months.

The DOJ is still working through the prosecutions. In Sept. 2024, four men received various sentences for charges related to pushing a metal crowd control barrier in a scuffle with police, during which an officer fell, hit his head, and got an concussion. The DOJ said in a statement that members of this group broke Capitol windows, grabbed a police riot shield, resisted police efforts to stop them, entered and remained in the Capitol for hours.

Their actions are not nothing. But for the law to be fair, it must apply to everyone equally. Few people were prosecuted for the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 that destroyed businesses in cities around the nation. Biden praised the BLM riots as a “historic movement for justice,” while on the campaign trail that year.

If Biden needs an example of the unfairly prosecuted, he can look at the many Americans who have been arrested and imprisoned under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act for standing near or in front of abortion mills in a last-ditch effort to convince pregnant women not to kill their babies. While some have sat directly in front of doors, others have stood away from the doors, praying, singing church hymns, and reading the Bible. Under Biden’s direction, the FBI has arrested a number of pro-life advocates and imprisoned them. Some are still awaiting trial or sentencing.  

As The Federalist previously reported, 60-year-old Heather Idoni, a mother of 15 — including 10 adopted from Ukraine, is currently serving 24 months in federal prison for blocking the door of an abortion mill in Washington, D.C., and awaits sentencing for other, similar incidents. Idoni was one of nine people imprisoned for the Washington incident. Lauran Handy, 30, received 57 months (nearly five years) plus three years supervised release for the same incident.

Concentration camp survivor Eva Edl, 89, of South Carolina, had faced a similar prison sentence but was sentenced to three years probation.

Pro-lifers continue to go to abortion mills because some women do change their minds at the last minute after learning they can get help from pregnancy resource centers. When not in prison, they have been able to save the lives of some unborn babies.

When President Biden speaks of Hunter being unfairly prosecuted, he is not comparing Hunter’s international wheeling and dealing to the life-saving efforts of pro-lifers.

President Biden has daddy goggles on when it comes to Hunter; to him, despite a laptop loaded with smut and crimes like drug use and prostitution, his kid can do no wrong.

Never mind the armloads of evidence described by the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability of Hunter being allegedly in alarming potential crimes. 

Starting in 2014, Hunter, with no energy expertise, was paid $1 million a year to sit on the board of Burisma, a natural gas company in Ukraine. And in 2015, when then-Vice President Joe Biden learned that Burisma was under government investigation for fraud, he demanded the Ukrainian government fire the official investigating.

Don’t think about how Hunter Biden benefited in 2014 from a Russian oligarch’s $3.5 million wire transfer to Rosemont Seneca Partners, a company Hunter Biden opened the day before the wire transfer.

Or that in 2014, Kenges Rakishev, chairman of Fincraft Resources, a mining and energy business in Kazakhstan, wired $142,300 to Rosemont Seneca. The next day that exact same amount was transferred to a car dealership to buy Hunter a new ride.

Maybe it is a coincidence that before entering the White House, the Bidens had a lot of unexplained dealings with China, Ukraine, and Russia, and many ties to energy; then on Day One of his term, President Biden killed the Keystone Pipeline. After Russia invaded Ukraine, Biden has used the emergency Presidential Drawdown Authority 55 times since August 2021, giving the Ukraine military assistance totaling almost $32 billion from Department of Defense stockpiles, according to the DOD.

President Biden is not concerned about the unfairly prosecuted. He is trying to throw future investigators off the scent of bigger prey: himself.

After a term marked by shocking infringement of constitutional rights against political opponents, President Biden’s pardon thumbs his nose at the American people and taunts, “What are you going to do about it?”

With this pardon, Biden knows the answer is: probably nothing.

Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.