Ben Reacts: Hunter Biden’s Pardon
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- Alrighty folks, it's time for another episode of Ben Reacts. Thanks to President Joe Biden, who tonight pardoned his son, Hunter Biden, in the most expected scandal of recent memory. Remember folks, don't miss out on breaking news and exclusive content like these Reacts videos. Join DailyWire Plus today during our best deal of the year. Right now you get 50% off new memberships, no code necessary. It is indeed the final hours of our Black Friday deal. Head on over to dailywire.com/subscribe right now. Alrighty, so,

The big news of the evening, of course, is that President Joe Biden, who had vowed that he would not, in fact, pardon his son, Hunter Biden, on gun and tax-related charges,

He was lying. Who knew? Except for everyone, because of course, President Joe Biden has always been a super corrupt and venal politician. In fact, from the very beginning of his career, he was attempting to make money for members of his family. Whether we were talking about his brothers, whether we were talking about his kids, whether we were talking about his sister, whether we're talking about his entire family, his entire family has been the beneficiary

of his political largesse. They've all used his name in order to pull down sacks of cash. And Hunter Biden, of course, was most famous for doing that, whether he was pulling down sacks of cash by taking money from Ukrainian energy company, Burisma, having no expertise in Ukraine or in energy, whether he was attempting to take down sacks of cash from the Chinese with 10% held in trust for the big guy,

That is according, again, to contemporaneous emails that were found on the Hunter Biden laptop, which were then covered up by the media and, of course, by the intelligence community, which claimed that it was probably Russian disinformation. Well, you'll recall that last year there was a huge scandal because the special counsel, a person named David Weiss, first attempted to bury the Hunter Biden charges, particularly when it came to the question of Foreign Agent Registration Act violations.

tax felonies, whether Joe Biden was in fact involved in all of this. He attempted a plea deal with Hunter Biden that would have allowed him to get off scot-free, essentially, with some probation and some community service.

And then he attempted to bury the tax charges in the gun charges. In the end, the judge blew that up because the judge looked at the deal and realized that the deal was, in fact, unbelievably corrupt, and there was no way to even pretend that it wasn't. So in the end, David Weiss and company at the DOJ, they had to go back to the drawing board, and eventually...

The judge in that particular case accepted a guilty plea in a nine-count indictment, three felony tax offenses, six misdemeanor tax offenses, as well as a gun charge because he had lied on his gun intake form. He had suggested that he was not, in fact, a drug addict when he was, in fact, a drug addict. Now, again, those convictions did not get to the root of the matter with regard to Hunter Biden, which was, was he, in fact, a bag man for daddy?

i mean we have texts from hunter biden to his own children suggesting that he paid the family bills so the chances that he was not in fact a bag man for the biden family are pretty much zero everyone all over the world knew that daddy was the one with the weight and they figured that by paying a hunter biden they would basically buy off daddy this was always the bargain hunter biden basically admitted as much he went on national television and he was asked whether he would have ever obtained any of these

highly paid foreign jobs if not for his last name and he said no and he said no well hunter biden again gets convicted he goes to jail that happens back in september and part of the reason why this happened back in september is because as you'll recall there were still ongoing questions as to whether donald trump was going to go to jail so one of the ways that the doj responded to allegations of impropriety and corruption in going after donald trump was to convict

Hunter Biden, the president's son, on this variety of charges without ever touching Joe Biden. So the idea was the DOJ was definitely not corrupt because after all, the DOJ went out of its way to go after the president's son, even if it was leaving the president of the United States alone. Well, Joe Biden, you'll remember back in July, suggested that if his son was in fact convicted, he would not pardon him. And then after his son was convicted, he still said that he would not pardon him. You remember this? Well, it turns out that he was lying all along. So

So, tonight, we find out that he was not only pardoned on the charges for which he ended up being criminally convicted or pleading guilty, he was actually pardoned with regard to anything he did between period January 1, 2014 and December 1, 2024, including but not limited to all offenses charged or prosecuted, including any that have resulted in convictions by Special Counsel David C. Weiss.

That is what Joe Biden issued tonight. So it is not just the stuff that he was actually guilty of. It is anything else, right? Any offenses that he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during that entire period. So that entire period, of course, would include pretty much everything related to the Burisma period, which was happening in 2015 and early 2016. Pretty incredible stuff right there. I mean, that is Joe Biden just taking himself off the hook by proxy. That's what that is.

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So the actual statement that Joe Biden released is really self-serving, as you would imagine. I mean, of course it has to be self-serving given the fact that, of course, this is the president pardoning his own son. And understand the corruption here. The entire attempt to convict Hunter Biden was done as a balancing act in order to demonstrate that they were not, in fact, a tool of the Democratic administration. So their case was, we can prosecute Donald Trump willy-nilly, but we're not biased because we are also prosecuting Hunter.

But Republicans were saying, well, yeah, I mean, that's all well and good, except that you know Joe is going to pardon Hunter the minute that he has the opportunity to do so. So it's all a fake. And Joe was like, no, no, no, no, I would never do that. I'm never going to. Well, it turns out we're all right. It was a fake. So Joe Biden puts out a statement and it says this, quote,

Okay.

are typically given non-criminal resolutions. It is clear Hunter was treated differently. Ah, yes, it turns out Joe Biden isn't doing this 'cause Hunter is his son. It's 'cause Hunter was unfairly victimized by the Department of Justice, unlike Donald Trump, who of course had the Department of Justice activated against him. And Joe Biden said that he should in fact have the Department of Justice activated against him,

While simultaneously, the DOJ was openly stating that Joe Biden had committed crimes with regard to classified materials, but he was senile so they wouldn't prosecute him. Remember, the selectivity tends to run in one particular direction.

Well, the statement goes on. That, of course, is not what the judge said. The judge, as you'll recall, in this case, looked at that plea deal.

which effectively took the gun charges and then wrapped in all possible tax charges as sort of an addendum to the plea deal on the gun charges. And the judge looked at that and said, wait, I'm not even trying the tax charges. Why in the world would I sign off on a plea agreement that involves cases over which I am not presiding? That's crazy. So once again, Joe Biden is lying.

He says,

For his daddy? But don't worry, he's the victim here. No, we know perfectly well why you came to this decision.

Mr. President, we totally get it. It's because you are super corrupt. That's the reason you came to this particular decision. Listen, I get it. You're a dad, but also you happen to be a super corrupt dad. None of these excuses hold water. And you don't get to claim that you agree with the justice system while you simultaneously undermine it through one of the most corrupt pardons in American history right here, which is exactly what is happening. Hey folks, we're gonna have a lot on this tomorrow morning, so you have to make sure that you tune into the show. I have a

lot to talk about here that I'm not able to get to in the Ben Reacts, but I wanted to get this out quickly so you know at least my initial thoughts. We'll see you here next time or again. Remember,

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