As pundits and experts alike lose interest in the preemptive pardon of Hunter Biden, there are still a few legal scholars pondering whether it can be thrown out. Joe Biden occupied the office of the president, not the Vatican. The forgiveness of sins, real or imagined, isn’t something seen clearly in Article II of the Constitution, leaving a shadow of a penumbra of a cloudy gray area as yet unexplored. A precedent that even the totalitarian left might want to question considering who Donald Trump could choose to pardon – and for how long – if he were to follow that example.
Or Un-pardon. We are, after all, in an undiscovered country where the rules are not fully understood. Not that he’d need to do that. The long list of retroactive get-out-of-jail-free cards leaves their recipients open to other avenues of attack that are equally compromising. They can’t plead the Fifth under oath, and any perjury outside the proscribed pardon is punishable by fine and imprisonment. Since most of them were pardoned for being serial liars, this presents opportunities, not that they’ll need them to get Hunter (whose first name, by the way, is actually Robert).
Without the Big Guy, “‘Bob’s” street value has plummeted. He couldn’t get banged if he was a broken screen door in a hurricane. He is Smitty Werbenjägermanjensen’s novelty soda-drinking hat. One moment, it is worth a fortune, the next not worth the time of day.
Absent the perception of access to power dropping large sums on one of Bob’s shit paintings makes no sense but ‘Hunter’ has bills to pay.
“Given the positive feedback and reviews of my artwork and memoir, I was expecting to obtain paid speaking engagements and paid appearances, but that has not happened,” Hunter Biden wrote Wednesday.
He said that his “lack of financial resources has been exacerbated by the fires in the Pacific Palisades in early January, which has rendered my rental house unlivable for an extended period of time and, like many others in that situation, I am having difficulty in finding a new permanent place to live.”
He can’t afford to continue to sue the people he is suing (for money he now needs to pay his lawyers), so he’s thinking he’ll have to drop his lawsuits.
Have you tried a GoFundMe titled “Global Warming Ate My House,” or is that more likely to bring up the truth? DEI and radical left-wing politics ate your house while voters ate the rest. Ate your home, lifestyle, and future, not that I’d expect the Harris Administration to throw you any bones – not even a USAID NGO handout. Dumb VPs hate the presidents who picked them, and Democrat first families are like the Mafia. They may have shared interests (like how they all profit from the federal industrial laundromat monopoly Trump is breaking up), but they don’t like each other very much, and I wonder if Jill likes Hunter much either. She’s got the key to the vault holding all their ill-gotten gains, and Hunter appears to have been locked out.
Amid lagging sales of his art and his memoir, the younger Biden remains “several million dollars” in debt after fighting multiple federal criminal cases, claiming in an affidavit that he only sold one painting for $36,000 since late 2023, after selling 27 paintings in the previous couple of years at an average price of nearly $55,000.
Lagging sales are ABC News being polite. One source suggested that only 4,200 copies of Hunter’s 2021 book were sold in the last year after being on the NYT bestseller list. Was it, really? How many of those were bought by Hunter or any number of Biden interests or, until recently, well-funded NGOs? Does the EPA have a few thousand copies in a sub-basement somewhere? Are they burning them to keep the lights on?
I sure hope ‘Bob’ paid his ghostwriter up front because Amazon has his book ranked #300,138 in the Kindle Store despite reviews giving it 4.5 stars (out of five).
Pardon my Schadenfreude. Little Bobby ‘Hunter’ Biden has lived the charmed life of a US Senator’s son, benefiting financially from his dad’s stint as VP and Oval Office denizen. However, this appears to have only accelerated his habit of treating himself like a rental car driven at high speed into a ditch.
The legal debts appear insurmountable, but are they?
The person close to Hunter Biden told ABC News that the former president’s son will continue pursuing his art career and plans to devote himself to initiatives meant to help people struggling with addiction. And despite the sentiments in his affidavit, Hunter Biden remains in “a good place to rebuild his life,” the person said.
I’m not vindictive. I hope Hunter finds peace, grace, and a spare room at the Rehoboth beach house, despite lacking any skill beyond being the son of Joe Biden. But I and many others would feel much better (pardon or not) if he were behind bars (where he could, perhaps, learn to code). He’s broken more laws than you can shake a stick at. Walking away from that because his last name happens to be Biden is anything but justice.
