Jay Weber Show transcript 6-21-23 (two segments)
Just as the show ended yesterday morning, we got the news that-as expected- and after a bogus, slow-walked, five year-
Five years? -investigation into Hunter Biden’s tax crimes-
It was going to end with a huge slap on the wrist: him pleading guilty to two misdemeanor charges of not paying his taxes, which will carry no prison time even though more suitable-and more serious charges could have seen him getting up to fifteen years in prison for lying on a federal tax form and another five for evading his taxes.
And the kicker is: a federal gun charge will also be dropped against him that could have netted him more prison time.
Folks- do you think any average American: just pick one-
Do you think any one of us-would have gotten off nearly scot-free on such serious charges?
Not a chance.
The liberal media is trying to play up the fact that Hunter will have a criminal record, now.
So?
With all the crimes that he’s been caught on tape committing- cataloged on his own laptop-he should already be serving prison time and it should be decades before he’s a free man.
It is not a ‘consequence’ that a privileged, wealthy American aristocrat now has a ‘criminal record’. Who cares? Everyone knows he’s a criminal scumbag, anyway?
How does having an -actual? -record? - harm this clown’s reputation at all?
Hey- in the sleazy underworld of New York and dc- the fact that he ‘beat the rap’ and walked away scot-free is only going to increase his street cred.
Trust me- these east coast socialites will get a tingle up their leg every time they see hunter at a cocktail party now...or out at the beach...oh, hunter. Such a bad boy...such a scoundrel.
Just as their petty criminality and corruption only made the Kennedy’s more fascinating-trust me-this criminal label will only make hunter more fascinating to most of these east coast elites.
This was a -total-slap on the wrist. The man faced a possible 20 years in prison if the more serious and appropriate charges would have been filed against him-and instead he’ll never serve a day of prison time.
And to be clear about ‘just how much’ he got away with, here, i bring you a thread on twitter from Brett Tolman- a former u-s attorney in dc-who is commenting on the plea agreement.
Tolman wants us all to know that-with this resolution to this case- the dept of justice is violating its own, long-standing, policies.
Brett Tolman- a former US attorney who used to deal in all of this- proves that Hunter Biden is getting an -insanely good- deal.
Tolman proves that Biden’s son-is not-being treated like any other defendant would be treated. This entire thing is the sort of farce that we assumed it would be-
Because we knew Merrick Garland is a scummy actor as attorney general-and we knew that Joe Biden and his white house would personally have their hands all over this thing- ensuring that Biden’s son never did suffer any significant consequences.
Moreover-this is the convenient excuse Biden and his team needed to insist that his very real, decades-long, influence peddling schemes are all fake news....and need to be ignored.
It was interesting yesterday that Kevin McCarthy and James Comer’s take was: this is a slap on the wrist that proves the dems have created a two-tiered system of justice-but at least now Biden’s DOJ has no more excuses as to why they can’t turn over all of the records from this probe.
I found it interesting that when the deal was announced in the morning, Hunters’ attorney said that this meant the federal probe into Hunter Biden was over.... and....at that time...the
US attorney in Delaware didn’t object.
The lead investigator, David Weiss, didn’t feel the need to correct that- in the morning-
But when comer and McCarthy said-great-now Weiss can turn over all his materials to congress. The Biden DOJ has no more excuses-
Then, suddenly, Weiss said, oh, no this is still an ongoing investigation.
It looked and sounded so much like a mad scramble by the Biden White House and Merrick garland that it had to be David, David, they’re right. You got to go out and pretend that there’s still more you’re going to investigate. Claim it’s not over. Claim it’s not over....
Clearly-that’s what happened. Biden and garland need to keep this excuse intact that they’ve been using to block congress from getting more records and evidence of Biden’s business dealings.
Weiss-had to be made- to claim some sort of investigation is continuing.
But we know it’s not.
It had Jonathan Turley, Fox’s constitutional, and legal expert, saying.... this settlement looks bad for Biden and the dems It looks weak. And it’s going to go a long way toward ‘proving’ the conservative claims about two tiers of justice
Turley said this punishment looks like they gave a traffic ticket to the getaway driver of a bank robbery. It’s a good analogy, yes.
Turley also, correctly, said this was going to ‘prove’ the conservative claims that Biden’s team is trying to ‘manage’ their corruption scandal by creating a false sense that ...okay, now. It’s all been investigated. This is settled. It was all fake news about Joe Biden being involved in anything...
Oh-and by the way-
Because the Biden’s are democrats and because their side of the aisle owns the so-called news media-Biden can get away with this crap: a simple statement issued from the white house that says- we aren’t going to talk about this, so don’t bother asking...quote
Oh, okay. This is over then.
Except for all the questions related to where Hunter Biden got the millions of dollars that he got caught not paying taxes on!!!
This is the part of the plea deal that had Turley and all of the other experts flummoxed, yesterday: how do you prosecute a person for tax evasion and never actually investigate where that mystery money came from?
Forgive the analogy-but this is like prosecuting someone for mutilating a corpse...without ever asking ‘who’s the dead person?’
Know what I mean? You can’t completely ignore the dead body in the room- and show absolutely no curiosity about it- or show no desire to ‘investigate further’ …ask more questions.
How can the DOJ ‘ding Hunter’ for tax evasion on millions of dollars without being the least bit curious as to where the millions came from?
This is another part of the story that screams ‘cover up’. This is dinging a murderer for ‘mutilation of a corpse’...but ignoring the actual murder. Ignoring the fact that-someone is dead.
Where did Hunter get the money?
And conveniently-this deal was announced when Merrick Garland was out of the country and ‘unavailable for comment’.
Isn’t that convenient?
We are supposed to believe that there was no DOJ interference here- and no coordination by the Biden white house and Merrick garland atop the DOJ-
Nope-David Weiss had free reign on this thing-
But then-when the scummy deal is announced- garland is conveniently unavailable to answer questions? He’s physically-out of the country?
Come on.
SEGMENT 2
I did a segment earlier about the truly slippery and indefensible Hunter Biden plea deal.
Former US attorneys and legal experts say Hunter should have been facing up to twenty years in federal prison for lying on a federal document and for tax evasion- even if the feds were going to drop a federal gun charge that could have given him even more prison time-
At the very least-with appropriate charging-Hunter Biden should be looking at several years-up to 20 years- of prison time.
And instead, he got a true slap on the wrist. It’s truly indefensible.... even if it’s completely expected: we knew Joe Biden and Merrick Garland were going to engineer a soft landing for hunter...and put him into a protective bubble-
Because- first- Joe Biden loves his son-and second-
Joe Biden was involved in the very sort of corruption that had hunter evading paying taxes on millions of ill-gotten dollars.
Right?
If Hunter’s shady foreign deals, influence peddling, and the resulting crimes he committed in covering it up, ever came to light, Joes would, too.
You can’t convict gangster Johnny Torrio of running a criminal racket and not also go after Al Capone, right?
Torrio was running the illegal bootlegging operation-for Capone.
These feds can’t go after Hunter’s more serious criminal activities without also exposing joe, right?
So, as senator Ron Johnson put it on twitter, yesterday, we knew what the outcome was going to be:
That’s right- because then Joe Biden would need to be held accountable for his actions, too.
And of course, Biden, Merrick Garland, and the entire democrat party come off looking scummy and corrupt here-
But you know what?
They just don’t care.
I believe that -after all we have seen over the last seven years or so- it’s safe to say that today’s democrats don’t care if the American people think they are scummy and corrupt: they’re using their ill-gotten power to get their ‘wins’. To ‘protect their own’. To bully or scam their way into anything they want to do- or have.
And are no longer even giving a second though to ‘how it looks’ to the American people.
They despise the American people, anyway. Correct?
Even if you think I’m painting with too broad a brush- joe and jill Biden and the corrupt minions who they have surrounded themselves with-clearly- no longer care how they are perceived.
They’ll just deny and gaslight. Gaslight and lie. Lie and deflect. Deflect and blame. Blame and gaslight some more...
It’s the never-ending circle that criminals and scumbags find themselves in....so...whatever.
Who cares what the American people think, anymore. Joe and jill are near death and they ‘got theirs’. They fooled everyone and climbed to the top...so bleep everyone now.
And even though i don’t believe that the Bidens will ever be held accountable for their decades of criminality and corruption-i do believe that we, the American people, will eventually know the truth.
Eventually. When it doesn’t really matter, any longer, in terms of doling out consequences.
It was good to hear James Comer and Kevin McCarthy say ‘these changes nothing’ when it comes to our house investigation into the Biden’s foreign schemes to sell access to the US govt.
The only thing that will change, Comer and McCarthy said, is that now the US attorney in Delaware can turn over the evidence and documentation that he has -to house investigators. The Biden DOJ has no more excuses or delays....
Oh no... no....David Weiss was then instructed to say publicly...no, no... we ah...we...are still investigating some stuff here...so.... we still can’t give the republicans nothing’....he said... Making himself look like an ass.
we knew before this, how it would end: Merrick Garland had already proven himself to be a scummy actor as attorney general-who was out to protect Biden’s personal and political interests.
None of this should surprise anyone.
We even predicted that this would be the convenient excuse Biden and his team needed to insist that his very real criminality-spanning decades- is just fake news....and needs to be ignored as he runs for re-election.
The only people who seemed a little surprised were that category of naive east coast insider who doesn’t want to see-or admit-to the obvious corruption that surrounds them in dc.
And as much as I like Jonathan Turley, Fox’s constitutional, and legal expert, I would categorize him as one of them.
He’s not naïve. He was quick to see that this settlement looks bad for Biden and the dems and proves the conservative claims about two tiers of justice in this country, now.
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