Bidens Get BAD NEWS 24hrs After Unprecedented Pardon
In a surprising legal move, special counsel David Weiss urged the federal judge in California handling Hunter Biden’s tax case to keep the charges intact, even after President Joe Biden granted a sweeping pardon on Sunday.
The pardon, which spans from January 1, 2014, to December 1, 2024, includes Hunter Biden’s June jury conviction for providing false information on a federal form regarding his drug use when purchasing a firearm. It also covers his September conviction on nine counts related to failing to pay at least $1.4 million in taxes between 2016 and 2019. The tax violations carried a potential 17-year prison sentence.
In a statement accompanying his pardon announcement, Hunter Biden claimed the charges were politically motivated. “The charges in his cases came about only after several of my political opponents in Congress instigated them to attack me and oppose my election,” he said.
Weiss strongly refuted these assertions in a court filing on Monday, stating, “There was and never has been any evidence of vindictive or selective prosecution in this case.”
He also noted that similar claims had been made—and dismissed—in Delaware. “The defendant [Hunter Biden] made similar baseless accusations in the United States District Court for the District of Delaware. Those claims were also rejected,” Weiss said.
“In total, eleven different [federal] judges appointed by six different presidents, including his father, considered and rejected the defendant’s claims, including his claims for selective and vindictive prosecution,” Weiss added.
The special counsel’s office requested that the court preserve the case record by closing the docket with a notation that the pardon had been granted rather than fully dismissing the charges. This method would allow the case file to remain intact for potential future use.
“[I]t has been the practice of this court that once an Executive Grant of Clemency has been filed on the docket, the docket is marked closed, the disposition entry is updated to reflect the executive grant of clemency, and no further action is taken by the Court,” Weiss explained in his filing.
He further pointed out that the court has yet to receive the official pardon from Hunter Biden or his legal team.
“If media reports are accurate, the Government does not challenge that the defendant has been the recipient of an act of mercy. But that does not mean the grand jury’s decision to charge him, based on a finding of probable cause, should be wiped away as if it never occurred,” Weiss said.
“It also does not mean that his charges should be wiped away because the defendant falsely claimed that the charges were the result of some improper motive,” he continued.
“No court has agreed with the defendant on these baseless claims, and his request to dismiss the indictment finds no support in the law or the practice of this district,” Weiss concluded.
Legal experts noted the significance of Weiss’s approach. Mark Osler, a presidential pardon specialist at the University of St. Thomas, told ABC News that the request highlights “a technical issue — either way, the case goes away — but an important one.”
“[Prosecutors] want the indictment to remain on the record,” Osler said.
According to The Hill, U.S. District Judge Mark Scarsi, who is overseeing the California tax case, has not yet ruled on whether to dismiss the charges.
The outlet also reported that in Delaware, U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika, overseeing Hunter Biden’s gun case, stated she plans to terminate the proceedings once the pardon is officially docketed. However, she has asked Weiss to clarify whether his office also objects to the dismissal in that case.