“If you have a piece of crack cocaine, no bigger than this quarter that I’m holding in my hand, one quarter of one dollar, we passed a law through the leadership of Senator Thurmond and myself and others. A law that says you’re caught with that, you go to jail for five years. You get no probation. You get nothing other than five years in jail, judge doesn’t have a choice.” — Senator Joe Biden in 1991
“Dear Hunter, thank you for inviting me to DC and giving an opportunity to meet your father and spent [sic] some time together.” — Vadym Pozharsky , Burisma executive
President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter Biden was inevitable and inevitably controversial. Hunter Biden is the quintessential nepotism baby, the recipient of privileges such as being appointed to the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company. Burisma paid him $50,000 per month for doing nothing other than existing with the last name Biden. The younger Biden was the butt of jokes for years, a cocaine addict who somehow managed to never have any interaction with the criminal justice system and who achieved nothing without an assist from his father. He lamented having to give up his lucrative lobbying business after his father became Barack Obama’s running mate. “Dad joined the Obama ticket, and I had to find new work.”
Hunter Biden came to greater public attention in the waning days of the 2020 presidential campaign, when an email in his laptop (which he left unclaimed at a repair shop) indicated that his father had at least one meeting with a Burisma colleague, creating a possible conflict of interest. The laptop also contained videos of the younger Biden using the drug that if his father is to be believed, warranted five years in prison.
The laptop affair should have been a bigger news story but was quashed by the Biden campaign in collusion with corporate media,........