Andrew McCabe, the disgraced former FBI Chief, is attempting to spin President Joe Biden’s unprecedented pardon of Hunter Biden as anything other than a cover-up.
This blanket pardon, which spans an eyebrow-raising 11 years, has left many conservatives, leftists, and legal experts questioning what crimes might lurk in Hunter Biden’s shadowy past.
However, McCabe, who himself resigned in disgrace amid allegations of misconduct, is painting the pardon as an act of mercy rather than what it appears to be: a desperate bid to shield the Biden family from scrutiny.
He parroted the Biden administration’s narrative, claiming the pardon was necessary because Hunter Biden was allegedly targeted due to his father’s political role. But this argument doesn’t hold water. Hunter Biden enjoyed a five-year investigation that resulted in minimal charges — a level of leniency most Americans could never expect.
Joe Biden granted his son Hunter Biden a blanket pardon in the federal gun and tax cases against him Sunday night. The pardon covers any federal crimes by Hunter from 2014 to 2024.
“I signed a pardon for my son Hunter. From the day I took office, I said I would not interfere with the Justice Department’s decision-making, and I kept my word even as I have watched my son being selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted,” said Biden.
He continued, “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. There has been an effort to break Hunter – who has been five and a half years sober, even in the face of unrelenting attacks and selective prosecution. In trying to break Hunter, they’ve tried to break me – and there’s no reason to believe it will stop here. Enough is enough.”
The timeline is no coincidence. In 2014, Hunter Biden joined the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm mired in corruption scandals. That same year now marks the start of his blanket pardon.
The connection to Burisma is impossible to ignore. McCabe, of course, dismisses such scrutiny as mere “conspiracy theories,” conveniently ignoring that a pardon of this scope wouldn’t be necessary unless there were serious crimes committed during that period.
During a segment on CNN, Brianna Keilar highlighted the suspicious timing, noting how 2014 coincides with Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board, a position that reportedly paid him exorbitantly despite his lack of relevant expertise. Keilar quoted Senator-elect Jim Banks (R-IN), who astutely pointed out that this broad pardon “essentially admits” there is something worth covering up from that time.
However, McCabe is more concerned that “conspiracy theories” might arise from Hunter’s pardon beginning in 2014. He suggested the pardon’s broad time frame was intended to protect Hunter from “politically motivated prosecutions.”
Transcript:
Brianna Keilar:
Republicans are really seizing on the time frame here, including the Senator-elect from Indiana, Jim Banks, who said, “Joe Biden issued a pardon to Hunter Biden for any crimes that he might have committed since 2014.” Why such a specific year? Well, Hunter Biden just so happened to join the Board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy firm, in that same year, 2014. So corrupt. What do you make of the time frame here?Andrew McCabe:
Well, my initial impression was this is the President’s desire to protect him for the longest period that reflects the President’s time of service in the White House. But nevertheless, the effect of that very broad 10-year time frame is, ironically, it will perpetuate the conspiracy theories and the accusations around Hunter Biden. They’ll never be resolved criminally, but it gives his detractors the opportunity to say, “Oh, well, he must have done something in 2014 to require a pardon going back that far.”Boris Sanchez:
I’m curious about a specific portion of the pardon in the text of what the President put out. He writes:“The charges in Hunter’s cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election. Then a carefully negotiated plea deal agreed to by the Department of Justice unraveled in the courtroom, with a number of my political opponents in Congress taking credit for bringing political pressure on the process. Had the plea deal held, it would have been a fair, reasonable resolution of Hunter’s cases.”
Part of the reason it fell apart, though, had to do with the disagreement between Hunter’s attorneys and the judge over whether other potential charges against Hunter could be processed in the future. How much stock do you put into this rationale?
Andrew McCabe:
It’s really hard. That’s really hard to say. I think that it definitely has the impact of generating more of that speculation—the range of the pardon, the depth of the pardon, all going the way back to 2014.However, there are reasonable arguments that could be made to say that Hunter Biden was treated differently than other people who are engaged in similar criminal conduct and who would likely not have been prosecuted to this extent of the law.
Hunter Biden endured a five-year investigation in which these are the only charges that came out of it. So I think this narrative that he was a subject of some unfair persecution—there are some facts to back that up. That the President believes that’s what’s going on here and that most of it was targeted towards Hunter because of President Biden’s role in the White House.
Video via Western Lensman:
NEW: Deep-state shill Andrew McCabe is worried that the Hunter pardon covering crimes back to 2014 will “perpetuate conspiracy theories” —
“The effect of that very broad ten year time frame is, ironically, it will perpetuate the the conspiracy theories and the accusations around… pic.twitter.com/Ozld3PNTsp
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