Hunter Biden: He’s Baaaack!
What, exactly, is Hunter Biden up to? This 56-year-old grifter is suddenly the darling of friendly podcasters, who are giving the nepo baby addict a microphone and zero pushback to a narrative that he’s misunderstood and his dad was a splendid president.
Hunter’s writing another book about his amazing self, this one will be serialized on his substack.
Yesterday Hunter was on the “Armchair Expert” podcast with host Dax Shepard, another recovering addict.
Hunter used the occasion to declare that no one in the history of the republic had been prosecuted for the same “lie and buy” gun charges he was convicted of in 2023.
Pity Shepard didn’t call Biden out for lying.
Here is Hunter on “Armchair Expert” explaining his version of the sequence of events that landed him in legal hot water and eventually cost him his law license:
“They offer me a plea agreement because I failed to pay my taxes on time in that period of time, which I had subsequently paid with penalties and interest of over $800,000. After I got sober and found out that I had not filed my taxes, so I paid them with penalties and interest. And that during that period of time, I'd bought a gun.
And I checked a box to say that I was not currently an addict. And at the time, this is honest. And when I walked into that store, I didn't think I was an addict. I was at least three days clean.”
“Well, yeah, you're not going to say you're an addict,” interjected Shepard’s co-host, Monica Padman helpfully…”
“Here's the thing,” Biden continued. “Every single person today in the United States of America based upon the law that I was prosecuted for, if you have ever smoked pot or you smoke pot even remotely on a regular basis, which means more than once a month, basically, and you own a gun, you're in violation of that same law, which means about 85 million Americans are breaking it. “
But they prosecuted me for it. We can't find a single other case. Woe is me. Oh, no. I, you know, being held to a higher standard. Like, yeah.”
Sorry, Hunter. I’m calling bullshit on this.
In fact, a quick Google search would have introduced you to Deja Taylor.
She’s a black single mom from Newport News who was sentenced to 18 to 24 months for the same gun charge you were facing, around the same time.
I wrote about your cases in 2023:
Let’s talk about two people today.
Deja Taylor, the 26-year-old mother of the 6-year old boy who in January shot his Newport News first grade teacher.
And Hunter Biden, the 53-year-old derelict son of the president.
Oddly enough, both of them were charged by the feds recently with lying about extensive drug use while possessing a firearm. Both have pleaded or are pleading guilty.
Taylor admits to being a marijuana user while possessing a firearm. Biden, “the smartest man” Joe Biden knows, was a crackhead while possessing his.
Taylor was facing up to 25 years in prison for her lies, but her lawyers and federal prosecutors came to an agreement where she will serve just 18 to 24 months in prison in return for her guilty plea. A judge needs to sign off on the agreement.
Biden, on the other hand, struck a sweet pretrial deal that will place him in a “diversion” program on his gun charge and he will not spend a day behind bars. He also has a plea agreement on misdemeanor tax charges that will entail probation rather than incarceration.
There’s a lesson here:
If you’re a single mother, an African-American nobody in Newport News, you do time for lying about drug use while owning a firearm. If you’re a white bum but the spawn of the Democrat president of the United States, you go free.
And no, Taylor didn’t get a stiffer sentence because her son used her gun to shoot his teacher. Those were separate charges. This was a straight “lie and buy” charge like Hunter’s.
Once his plea deal fell apart, he was tried and convicted on the gun charge and saved from prison by a pardon from his father who had earlier vowed not to pardon his son. Lying comes naturally to Bidens.
Jonathan Turley isn’t fooled by the Hunter Biden redux:
“Hunter Biden is once again reinventing himself with the help of an ever-enabling media and the Democratic establishment. The media is full of reports that people are rediscovering Hunter and finding him strikingly honest and refreshing. In his pitch, he assures viewers that now “it’s just me” and not some team of advisers. The problem is that, for some of us who have been critics of the Bidens for decades, there is nothing new about the new Hunter other than a podcast audience.
“Hunter Biden was the ultimate personification of that corruption — both financial and moral. He spent his life attacking those who tried to investigate his dealings, including filing ruinous lawsuits against individuals who would not yield.”
“At the same time, he spent lavishly with money that he acquired by leveraging the access and influence of his father. Some of this conduct continued during periods of sobriety as well as addiction. That includes his disgraceful record with regard to his daughter Navy Joan, whom he fought not to recognize or support."
Anyone else find it interesting that in the spate of interviews Hunter and his former babysitter/stepmother “Dr.” Jill Biden have given recently they’re never asked about Navy Roberts, the 7-year-old daughter that Hunter denied until court-ordered DNA tests proved he was the father?
For their parts, Joe and Jill Biden refused to acknowledge the existence of their 7th grandchild until they were guilted into it by a searing column, “It’s Seven Grandchildren, Mr. President,” by leftist columnist Maureen Dowd in The New York Times.
There’s a reason Navy is never mentioned: Clearly the price for an interview with either one of these two con artists is a promise that their atrocious treatment of little Navy is off limits.
In a piece last month, “‘Why Are We Talking About This?’: Democrats Furious That The Bidens Won’t Go Away,” Politico writer Lisa Kashinsky, Dasha Gruns and Andrew Howard interviewed prominent Democrats about their Biden problem.
“Democrats want to move on from 2024. The Bidens won’t let them,” the piece began.
“Hunter Biden has triggered a raft of headlines in recent days after he taped a podcast with (Candace) Owens, the conspiratorial conservative influencer who has repeatedly attacked the Biden family and the former president’s mental capacity. In the interview, Owens promised not to disparage Joe Biden…”
Of course she did.
The Bidens are stubbornly insisting that America pay attention to them while Democrats just wish they’d go away.
“Nobody wants to relitigate the worst debate performance since the Greek Republic. Why are we talking about this? Why are we talking about Hunter Biden? Why is Hunter Biden talking about Hunter Biden?” asked Pete Giangreco, a longtime Democratic strategist who worked on Barack Obama’s campaigns.
They’re both shameless grifters, Pete, that’s why. The gravy train, the Burismas, the six-figure finger painting business that looked like money laundering, all ended when Joe slunk away from the White House.
Dr. Jill and Hunter, part of the most corrupt family to live at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, are selling their memoirs in hopes of refilling the family coffers.
All they need are useful idiots in the media.
