WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.520 I can't believe I didn't talk about this much yesterday. 2 00:00:02.560 --> 00:00:04.960 And I had a whole show yesterday about the Hunter 3 00:00:05.040 --> 00:00:10.359 Biden pardon, and I wound up just blathering on about 4 00:00:12.119 --> 00:00:16.399 the principles behind the pardon power, and then I wound 5 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:20.760 up talking about Roman history, about the example of this 6 00:00:21.960 --> 00:00:27.879 fourth century Roman consul who oversaw the execution of his 7 00:00:27.920 --> 00:00:30.640 own son because he had such fidelity to the law 8 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:34.880 in Rome that his son had disobeyed a military order 9 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.159 and charged at the enemy when he wasn't allowed to. 10 00:00:37.320 --> 00:00:47.600 So Titus Manlius Torquatus had his own son executed. Why 11 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:50.240 because he was faithful to the law and his son 12 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:53.320 had broken the law done something that merited the death 13 00:00:53.320 --> 00:00:56.640 penalty in Rome, and he was like, well, sorry, yes, 14 00:00:56.719 --> 00:01:01.560 I'm gonna kill my son. And how Trump just letting 15 00:01:01.560 --> 00:01:04.439 his son completely off the hook for everything he's ever 16 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:08.280 done wrong in his life is maybe sort of the 17 00:01:08.319 --> 00:01:13.319 opposite example of that. Anyway, I blathered on and on 18 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:16.439 and on about all this, and on and on and 19 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:20.400 on about the narrative of like, oh, this isn't really 20 00:01:20.480 --> 00:01:23.760 a crime anyone would have charged against Hunter Biden, And 21 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:26.840 I'm like, well, no, quite the opposite. Hunter has been 22 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:31.040 treated with kid gloves for all this conduct for years. 23 00:01:32.879 --> 00:01:35.719 He would have been charged with more if prosecutors hadn't 24 00:01:35.760 --> 00:01:41.159 been trying to give him a sweetheart deal to get 25 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:44.560 off Scott free from all of his misconduct. There's a 26 00:01:44.599 --> 00:01:46.879 lot of things they could have charged him with that 27 00:01:46.959 --> 00:01:50.000 they didn't. That they allowed the Statute of Limitations to 28 00:01:50.120 --> 00:01:55.959 pass on. All of his shenanigans, gallivanting around Europe and Asia, 29 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:01.680 selling access to selling the appearance of access or flat 30 00:02:01.719 --> 00:02:10.000 out access to his dad, to foreign businesses in Ukraine, 31 00:02:10.159 --> 00:02:15.280 foreign businesses in China, China that were foreign business in 32 00:02:15.400 --> 00:02:21.199 China that were clearly connected with Chinese Communist Party, in intelligence, 33 00:02:23.360 --> 00:02:25.879 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, all kinds of stuff. 34 00:02:27.280 --> 00:02:30.400 So a bunch of stuff the Statute of Limitations passed on. 35 00:02:31.680 --> 00:02:35.719 He was only charged with his tech problems. Going back 36 00:02:35.759 --> 00:02:42.319 to I think about twenty eighteen onward and then the 37 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:45.960 gun charge, and I also talked about how it's such 38 00:02:45.960 --> 00:02:50.520 a shameful thing given that Biden had spent a large 39 00:02:50.840 --> 00:02:56.479 chunk of his political life ranting about two different issues 40 00:02:56.520 --> 00:03:05.039 one gun violence, two the ultra wealthy who don't pay 41 00:03:05.080 --> 00:03:09.360 their taxes and what does he absolve his son of 42 00:03:10.719 --> 00:03:13.800 a gun crime. A gun crime, by the way, for 43 00:03:14.080 --> 00:03:19.599 gun legislation that Biden himself worked on as a senator, 44 00:03:20.479 --> 00:03:23.400 that Biden himself could have called, you know, could have 45 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:28.759 you know, here's Biden saying, well, this is overly harsh 46 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:34.199 to penalize someone with a prison sentence for wrongly stating 47 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:37.159 something on a gun form. Oh, you think that this 48 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:41.240 federal gun law is too harsh? Boy, If only somebody 49 00:03:41.439 --> 00:03:45.360 had been in a position to help rewrite or amend 50 00:03:45.800 --> 00:03:50.960 this federal gun legislation to make it less punitive. If 51 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:53.520 only someone had been, like say, a US senator for 52 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.639 thirty six years, and then Vice president of the United 53 00:03:55.680 --> 00:03:57.599 States for eight years, and then President of the United 54 00:03:57.639 --> 00:04:00.960 States for another four years, maybe they could have suggested 55 00:04:01.280 --> 00:04:05.360 some amendments to it. Oh, but of course not, Joe 56 00:04:05.400 --> 00:04:08.520 Biden would never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever 57 00:04:08.560 --> 00:04:14.000 ever in a billion years suggest gun legislation that was 58 00:04:14.159 --> 00:04:20.839 less punitive. So anyway, I talked about all these different 59 00:04:20.839 --> 00:04:25.319 ways in which the Hunter Biden pardon was ridiculous and 60 00:04:25.439 --> 00:04:28.360 historical examples about the pardon power, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera, and 61 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:37.680 I didn't really talk enough about maybe Joe Biden's motivations 62 00:04:38.639 --> 00:04:43.439 for this pardon are not as clean and pure as 63 00:04:43.560 --> 00:04:48.199 the wind driven snow, and that there's a little densey 64 00:04:48.279 --> 00:04:52.160 bit of self interest. Now, let's remember kind of where 65 00:04:52.279 --> 00:04:55.600 Hunter is in his legal problems. He's already had his 66 00:04:55.879 --> 00:05:05.360 trial for the guns stuff. Trial for the gun stuff 67 00:05:05.439 --> 00:05:10.399 is done, he was found guilty, His sentencing was coming up. 68 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:14.600 My head, friends asking me, is why did why did 69 00:05:14.680 --> 00:05:19.600 Joe pardon Hunter in early December. Wouldn't isn't that usually 70 00:05:19.680 --> 00:05:22.199 a thing a president does like closer to the very 71 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.319 end of his term like this. Wouldn't this have been 72 00:05:24.399 --> 00:05:27.720 more likely to have happened on like January nineteenth or something. Well, 73 00:05:27.879 --> 00:05:30.639 Hunter's sentencing was coming up, I believe later this month. 74 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:35.600 So I think Trump, excuse me, I think Biden issues 75 00:05:35.639 --> 00:05:39.240 the pardon now so that Hunter doesn't have to go 76 00:05:39.279 --> 00:05:50.959 through the sentencing. Now, Hunter has been found guilty after 77 00:05:51.000 --> 00:05:54.199 a trial for the gun thing. He has been He 78 00:05:54.399 --> 00:06:02.600 has pled guilty to the tax charges that were filed 79 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:06.079 against him. This is basically in connection to Hunter was 80 00:06:06.199 --> 00:06:10.199 receiving millions and millions and millions of dollars of income 81 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:15.519 from his various business dealings, gallivanting around Europe and Asia 82 00:06:16.040 --> 00:06:21.959 and not paying any taxes at all. Already, some of 83 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.439 that financial information has become public on like the kinds 84 00:06:25.480 --> 00:06:28.920 of things he was spending money on and not paying 85 00:06:28.959 --> 00:06:31.759 his taxes. Again, it was gazillions of dollars. By the way, 86 00:06:31.759 --> 00:06:37.000 the only way Hunter has been able to not get 87 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:40.079 hit with worst charges or isn't in a worst predicament 88 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:47.040 is because various Joe Biden donors paid Hunter's tax debts. 89 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:50.600 So the stuff that Hunter owed in taxes has been 90 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:54.319 paid back with interest and penalties by Joe Biden donors. 91 00:06:54.360 --> 00:07:02.120 Which how that isn't a massive elections problem an unreported 92 00:07:02.240 --> 00:07:05.800 campaign expense probably, you know, especially by the liberal standard, 93 00:07:05.800 --> 00:07:10.120 where that was the whole basis of the Trump prosecution 94 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:16.680 in Manhattan. The whole idea was that Trump paying Stormy 95 00:07:16.759 --> 00:07:23.000 Daniels for a non disclosure agreement constituted a campaign expense 96 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:30.360 that he didn't report to federal campaign officials, a federal 97 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.600 campaign expense to hide the fact that he paid off 98 00:07:33.680 --> 00:07:36.519 this woman to not talk about their affair and thereby 99 00:07:36.639 --> 00:07:39.639 won the twenty sixteen election. That's the whole narrative for 100 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:42.480 the Alvin Bragg thing. Which seems kind of silly. I mean, 101 00:07:42.920 --> 00:07:45.879 a news story came out about another woman that Trump 102 00:07:45.959 --> 00:07:48.959 signed a non disclosure agreement with with whom he allegedly 103 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:52.360 had an affair. That story came out also like two 104 00:07:52.519 --> 00:07:54.639 or three days before the twenty sixteen election, and Trump's 105 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.000 stilt one. I doubt two bimbo stories would have sunk 106 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:04.360 his campaign where one bimbo story didn't now regards so, so, 107 00:08:04.480 --> 00:08:07.639 the left is all in on this notion that what 108 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:14.199 constitutes a campaign expense is this huge, very flexible idea. Frank, actually, 109 00:08:15.160 --> 00:08:20.240 under federal election law, in all likelihood no having someone 110 00:08:20.279 --> 00:08:23.399 sign a non disclosure agreement. Yeah, maybe it helps put 111 00:08:23.439 --> 00:08:26.199 you in a better position for getting elected because this 112 00:08:26.319 --> 00:08:28.319 person won't come out to talk about how you cheated 113 00:08:28.439 --> 00:08:31.279 on your wife with them. But that's not, properly speaking, 114 00:08:31.360 --> 00:08:37.919 a campaign expense. A campaign expense is a campaign television ad, billboards, 115 00:08:38.840 --> 00:08:41.600 you know, uh, internal polling that you pay for, Like 116 00:08:41.799 --> 00:08:45.720 those are campaign expenses. That's the stuff you have to 117 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:52.200 report to federal elections officials. Anyway, the thing I didn't 118 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:54.519 really talk about is the self serving nature of the part. 119 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:07.559 Now Biden's pardon of his son Trump is covering a 120 00:09:08.200 --> 00:09:19.120 very specific timeline. It's going from early twenty fourteen to 121 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:25.399 the present. Now, that's an oddly specific timeline for any 122 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.559 crimes he may have committed that are touched upon it 123 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:33.559 all in the Special Council's investigation from January of twenty 124 00:09:33.600 --> 00:09:37.240 fourteen onward. What kind of things were happening in twenty fourteen, 125 00:09:38.799 --> 00:09:46.720 Let's ask, well, Joe Biden was vice president at that time, 126 00:09:47.879 --> 00:09:53.679 and twenty fourteen was when Hunter was doing all of 127 00:09:53.799 --> 00:10:00.200 his shenanigans with Barisma, the Ukrainian energy company, where a 128 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:04.039 lot of people have implicated Joe Biden and all of that. 129 00:10:04.240 --> 00:10:08.080 Tony Bobolinski, who had been a business partner of Hunters, 130 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:11.840 he was the guy testifying whether it was the Ukraine 131 00:10:11.879 --> 00:10:15.039 stuff with the Chinese stuff, et cetera, that the big 132 00:10:15.159 --> 00:10:21.159 guy mentioned in the Hunter Biden emails frequently mentioned the 133 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:27.679 big guy was Joe Biden. Clearly it's Joe Biden, And 134 00:10:29.960 --> 00:10:33.480 I think that one of the important things to remember here. 135 00:10:33.919 --> 00:10:37.919 By Joe pardoning Hunter for all of that stuff, and 136 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:42.240 now a lot of that stuff, Hunter couldn't have been 137 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:48.200 prosecuted for necessarily because it was pasted the Statute of 138 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:54.960 Limitations all right, So for federal tax offenses, if you've 139 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.080 committed some kind of tax fraud, if you haven't paid 140 00:10:58.120 --> 00:11:01.240 a bunch of your taxes, whatever, and it's it's at 141 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.799 such a bad level that it we're not talking about 142 00:11:03.840 --> 00:11:07.240 the IRS anymore. We're talking about federal prosecutors, okay. And 143 00:11:07.320 --> 00:11:10.720 that's the thing. You know, if you're ten thousand dollars 144 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:14.440 short paying your taxes, the IRS handles it. If you 145 00:11:14.559 --> 00:11:18.320 were six or seven million dollars of income short of 146 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.559 paying your taxes, that's when a federal prosecutor gets involved. 147 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.879 And that's the uh domain that Hunter was in as 148 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.360 far as how much taxes he wasn't paying. For Hunter's 149 00:11:33.559 --> 00:11:42.799 tax charges, it wasn't going to touch all the stuff 150 00:11:42.840 --> 00:11:45.240 that happened in twenty fourteen because the prosecutors, in their 151 00:11:45.279 --> 00:11:48.879 effort to give Hunter a sweetheart deal, let years go 152 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:52.960 by where they didn't indict him. So Hunter, you know, 153 00:11:53.039 --> 00:11:56.720 they didn't indict him in twenty twenty. His twenty fourteen 154 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.759 tax stuff went by the wayside. This actually the limitation 155 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:05.320 tolls and his twenty fourteen tax problems they go away. 156 00:12:05.840 --> 00:12:08.279 Twenty twenty one goes by his twenty fifteen tax problems 157 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:11.240 go away. Twenty twenty two goes by his twenty sixteen 158 00:12:11.279 --> 00:12:14.240 tax problems go away, twenty twenty three goes by his 159 00:12:15.159 --> 00:12:18.519 twenty seventeen tax problems go away. Finally he gets indicted 160 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:25.679 this year. So everything you know six years back and 161 00:12:25.840 --> 00:12:30.279 forward he can be indicted for. But evidence of stuff 162 00:12:30.399 --> 00:12:33.759 Hunter did prior to that could still come in. Financial 163 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:39.639 information of stuff he did prior to then could still 164 00:12:39.759 --> 00:12:46.000 come in, and maybe some really damaging information about what 165 00:12:46.279 --> 00:12:52.519 Joe was involved in, stuff that could really screw up 166 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:58.720 Joe Biden's legacy, maybe even stuff that could lead to 167 00:12:59.120 --> 00:13:05.639 joecing some kind of criminal jeopardy. And that's the thing. 168 00:13:07.480 --> 00:13:10.399 When we return, I want to talk about how clearly 169 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:15.720 Hunter always knew the pardon was coming. That's next on 170 00:13:15.759 --> 00:13:21.039 The John Gerardy Show. Is Joe's pardon of Hunter an 171 00:13:21.120 --> 00:13:24.879 altruistic act of a father protecting his son. Is it 172 00:13:24.960 --> 00:13:28.600 a reasonable act by the President of the United States 173 00:13:28.759 --> 00:13:32.279 to moderate the strict application of justice in a way 174 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:37.679 that was unfair and politically motivated. No, and no, I 175 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.120 think it might have also just been the President doing 176 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:45.279 a little bit of his own cya. The whole setup 177 00:13:46.000 --> 00:13:51.519 of how Hunter was making money was he would go 178 00:13:51.759 --> 00:14:01.720 to these foreign companies, he would sell to them. At 179 00:14:01.759 --> 00:14:07.360 the very least. The best interpretation of this possible is 180 00:14:07.440 --> 00:14:11.480 that Hunter was selling to these companies the appearance of Hey, 181 00:14:11.600 --> 00:14:13.600 you give me money and I give you access to 182 00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:17.639 the Vice president of the United States. They would give 183 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:22.720 Hunter money, Hunter would at least pretend to give them 184 00:14:22.720 --> 00:14:25.759 access or something. And because there's nothing else that it 185 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.120 could have been, Hunter was getting millions of dollars of 186 00:14:29.279 --> 00:14:34.440 payment and there was no clear service going back. Let's 187 00:14:34.600 --> 00:14:37.559 put Hunter Biden on the board of directors of Barisma, 188 00:14:37.759 --> 00:14:40.399 a Ukrainian energy company. What the heck does Hunter know 189 00:14:40.519 --> 00:14:44.039 about Ukrainian energy? He doesn't know Jack Squatt, but his 190 00:14:44.200 --> 00:14:47.679 dad is the key point person in the Obama administration 191 00:14:48.159 --> 00:14:52.960 for Ukraine policy. All of a sudden, here's Joe Biden 192 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.600 exerting pressure on the Ukrainian government to fire this prosecutor 193 00:14:56.600 --> 00:15:00.519 who's investigating Barisma. Shortly around the time, I'm his son 194 00:15:00.679 --> 00:15:04.440 joins the board. Oh, the Ukrainian government fires that guy. Ah. 195 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:10.519 Barisma immediately cuts Hunter Biden's pay as a board member 196 00:15:11.240 --> 00:15:14.279 in half. I believe it was a massive reduction in 197 00:15:14.440 --> 00:15:17.559 what they were paying him. As soon as Joe Biden 198 00:15:17.799 --> 00:15:20.000 stopped being the Vice president of the United States on 199 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.840 January twentieth, twenty seventeen, I think it was literally two 200 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.320 months later, like they didn't even wait very long. And 201 00:15:25.360 --> 00:15:27.480 I think it was in March of twenty seventeen that 202 00:15:27.639 --> 00:15:31.240 they immediately cut Hunter Biden's salary like that. They were 203 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:34.720 not subtle about it. We're gonna pay you a lot 204 00:15:34.840 --> 00:15:36.679 less because you have a lot less to offer to 205 00:15:36.879 --> 00:15:41.279 us now that your dad's not the vice president. And 206 00:15:42.919 --> 00:15:51.399 I think Hunter knew all alone. And this is the thing, Joe, 207 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:59.840 We already know that Joe at least knew that he's 208 00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:04.559 son was selling at the very Again, this is the 209 00:16:04.679 --> 00:16:08.919 best case interpretation of it. It's very reasonable to draw 210 00:16:09.039 --> 00:16:12.639 a far less flattering interpretation of these events. The best 211 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:16.039 interpretation of it is that Joe knew that his son 212 00:16:16.159 --> 00:16:20.600 and his brother were selling the appearance of access to him, 213 00:16:20.639 --> 00:16:24.600 an influence from him to foreign businesses, and he did 214 00:16:24.679 --> 00:16:27.440 nothing to stop it. He was the one person who 215 00:16:27.519 --> 00:16:33.279 could have stopped it. He could have told Hunter, don't 216 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:37.320 you dare tell these foreign businesses that they can get 217 00:16:37.480 --> 00:16:41.440 something out of me. That the whole that that's that's bribery. 218 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.080 That there's your you could be operating as a foreign 219 00:16:44.120 --> 00:16:46.519 agent without being registered as one like that. There's there's 220 00:16:46.559 --> 00:16:48.960 a million things wrong with this. It's it could be 221 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:53.320 totally corrupt and slazy looking. Absolutely not. Don't do this 222 00:16:53.679 --> 00:16:57.320 that there are all these there's evidence, evidence, evidence, evidence 223 00:16:57.399 --> 00:17:04.240 that's come in that Joe talked with, interacted with Hunter's clients. 224 00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:06.880 Hunter had a dinner in DC for a bunch of them. 225 00:17:07.000 --> 00:17:11.079 Joe Biden stopped by, said a load of people that 226 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:13.240 Hunter would put his dad on the phone when he 227 00:17:13.319 --> 00:17:16.119 was around clients. The first time Hunter puts his dad 228 00:17:16.160 --> 00:17:18.400 on the phone with clients, and Joe says, oh, you've 229 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:22.200 got so and so with you. If Joe were an honest, 230 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.599 upright person, he would have called Hunter back a minute 231 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:29.920 later and yelled at him, don't you dare ever put 232 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 me on a phone with one of your clients again. 233 00:17:32.119 --> 00:17:34.640 Stop telling these people that they can get access to me. 234 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:37.880 If that's what you're selling these people, you got to stop. 235 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:41.400 I can't have the appearance of this. It just even 236 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:43.759 the very appearance that this is happening is corrupt. But 237 00:17:43.880 --> 00:17:54.480 Joe clearly never did that. If Hunter was really being 238 00:17:54.640 --> 00:17:58.960 charged with these federal tacks crimes, and all of this 239 00:17:59.319 --> 00:18:04.519 evidence could come in of what was Hunter doing, How 240 00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:09.079 was Hunter making this money, What were these, you know, 241 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:12.359 what kinds of things of his father's expenses, Maybe was 242 00:18:12.440 --> 00:18:16.039 he paying for? Was money flowing to Hunter as a 243 00:18:16.880 --> 00:18:21.119 workaround for things that were intended to benefit the big guy? 244 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:26.079 I mean, it's not a crazy thing in fraud cases 245 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:30.920 where the fraudster, instead of having someone fraudulently pay the 246 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:35.279 money to him, has the payments go to a family 247 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:38.680 member and then the family member benefit the big guy 248 00:18:38.839 --> 00:18:41.440 in some way, shape or form. That's not an uncommon thing. 249 00:18:41.839 --> 00:18:46.240 Was that what Hunter was doing. If Hunter's taxes get 250 00:18:46.279 --> 00:18:48.400 opened up in the course of a criminal trial where 251 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:51.319 Hunter's fighting for his life, where he doesn't know the 252 00:18:51.440 --> 00:18:56.799 silver bullet of a presidential pardon is waiting for him, 253 00:18:58.799 --> 00:19:02.279 maybe that evidence comes in. Maybe Hunter is not going 254 00:19:02.359 --> 00:19:07.960 to just plead guilty. Maybe we go through all kinds 255 00:19:07.960 --> 00:19:12.799 of discovery. Maybe we go through a detailed public presentation 256 00:19:13.119 --> 00:19:17.480 of evidence that is not flattering to Joe. Heck, maybe 257 00:19:18.759 --> 00:19:25.720 Hunter even testifies against his own dad. If he's in 258 00:19:25.799 --> 00:19:28.519 a bad enough situation. If federal prosecutors are like what 259 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:31.720 you've got evidence of criminal wrongdoing by the President of 260 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:36.799 the United States, by well by at that time, the 261 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:40.039 vice president of the United States, who is currently the 262 00:19:40.039 --> 00:19:43.279 President of the United States. You got clear, can you know, 263 00:19:43.400 --> 00:19:49.880 criminal evidence? But Hunter didn't do that. Hunter's entire conduct 264 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:55.559 over the course of this indictment for his federal tax problems. 265 00:19:56.240 --> 00:20:01.200 He has always operated as so some one would operate 266 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:06.799 if they knew they had the silver bullet available to 267 00:20:06.960 --> 00:20:10.240 them of their daddy issuing them a presidential pardon. 268 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:18.880 He doesn't fight the charges, he just pleads guilty. Well, 269 00:20:19.079 --> 00:20:21.240 at first it seemed like he was gonna and then 270 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:26.720 he didn't. Decisions seem to and then of course what happens. 271 00:20:26.759 --> 00:20:31.160 The presidential pardon comes out. And it's very detailed as 272 00:20:31.200 --> 00:20:35.400 far as the timeline of what kinds of conduct Hunter's 273 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:38.880 being absolved for. It's not. It goes all the way 274 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.920 back to January, it goes all the way back to 275 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:49.200 twenty fourteen, when Joe was vice president, when Hunter was 276 00:20:49.279 --> 00:20:54.799 beginning to gallivant around selling at again, best case scenario, 277 00:20:54.960 --> 00:21:00.799 the appearance of influence from his dad, all of that 278 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:03.200 stuff is covered by the pardon. So and by this 279 00:21:03.319 --> 00:21:11.480 so once you're pardoned, It totally eviscerates any need, any 280 00:21:12.200 --> 00:21:17.640 incentive for a criminal investigator to investigate it. Well, I'm 281 00:21:17.680 --> 00:21:21.519 not gonna investigate this for possible criminal violations when the 282 00:21:21.559 --> 00:21:24.319 guy has received a presidential pardon. We can't. We can't 283 00:21:24.359 --> 00:21:33.759 move forward with the prosecution. He's been pardoned. So I 284 00:21:33.880 --> 00:21:37.279 think that's another way of needing to look at the 285 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:45.119 pardon of Hunter. Biden is no one. It is not 286 00:21:48.160 --> 00:21:53.599 the moderating hand of the president to moderate the strict 287 00:21:53.799 --> 00:21:56.599 application of justice in a way that was overly rigorous 288 00:21:56.640 --> 00:22:03.079 in a certain given circumstance. It wasn't the president, you know. 289 00:22:03.359 --> 00:22:07.200 Uh just it wasn't even altruistically a father caring for 290 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:09.559 his son. And I mean, that's a human motivation. I 291 00:22:09.599 --> 00:22:11.920 can understand if I had the complete power to wave 292 00:22:11.960 --> 00:22:14.400 a magic wand and make my son not go to 293 00:22:14.480 --> 00:22:18.400 federal prison, I'd probably waive it, even if my son 294 00:22:18.440 --> 00:22:22.119 had done something meriting federal prison time. I could understand 295 00:22:22.559 --> 00:22:25.480 that motivation. But it's not just that. It's not just 296 00:22:25.599 --> 00:22:33.000 that there's some self dealing here. When we return a 297 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:38.000 journey into the twisted mind of mind of erstwhile political 298 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:44.160 commentator Keith Olberman next on the John Girardi Show. I 299 00:22:44.240 --> 00:22:46.559 want to talk about someone who is maybe kind of 300 00:22:46.759 --> 00:22:48.359 a bit of a blast from the past for a 301 00:22:48.440 --> 00:22:52.759 lot of you, hasn't really been particularly relevant in any way, 302 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:59.079 shape or form for the last several years. Keith Olberman. Now, 303 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:02.000 many of you may remember Keith from when he had 304 00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:06.359 a show on MSNBC. Some of you may go further 305 00:23:06.480 --> 00:23:09.039 back and remember when he was an anchor on Sports Center. 306 00:23:10.119 --> 00:23:13.440 It was him and Dan Patrick and a lot of 307 00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:18.200 people Harold people who are ESPN officionados, you know, sports 308 00:23:18.359 --> 00:23:24.039 TV officionados, Harold Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman as the 309 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:28.839 epitome of ESPN that they were the best Sports Center 310 00:23:28.880 --> 00:23:31.279 anchors ever and that was the best and blah blah blah, 311 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:36.440 blah blah. I can't actually think of any Keith Olberman 312 00:23:36.640 --> 00:23:39.200 moment that I thought was great. I mean, Dan Patrick 313 00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:43.319 is clearly a very talented broadcaster and a very successful career. 314 00:23:45.640 --> 00:23:52.079 But Olberman had a different kind of successful career. Basically, 315 00:23:52.759 --> 00:23:56.920 it's sort of successful. He just kept getting opportunity after 316 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:02.200 opportunity after opportunity, and he kept so ticking off his 317 00:24:02.359 --> 00:24:05.400 own employers that he would get fired. He seems to 318 00:24:05.480 --> 00:24:12.559 be a total misanthrope who just burns bridges everywhere he 319 00:24:12.680 --> 00:24:15.799 goes to the point where, in spite of the fact 320 00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:19.480 that this man is obviously very talented broadcaster, I'm not 321 00:24:19.559 --> 00:24:22.720 gonna say he's bad at talking or bad at TV 322 00:24:22.880 --> 00:24:28.559 or bad at radio. He's not currently doesn't currently have 323 00:24:28.640 --> 00:24:35.960 a job. What he is is completely unhinged on Twitter. 324 00:24:36.640 --> 00:24:42.640 He's on Twitter and he is an unbelievable follow just 325 00:24:43.279 --> 00:24:47.759 in like like the way that maybe like car crash 326 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:53.759 videos would be popular to watch online or something. He's oh, 327 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:59.480 he is out there the just whatever is the most 328 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:06.640 aggressively insane left wing position to hold. And he's also 329 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:10.200 like at this old man yelling at Cloud's phase of 330 00:25:10.279 --> 00:25:13.680 life where he thinks everybody needs to be fired. He 331 00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:18.039 thinks everyone should resign, he thinks everyone should be anyone 332 00:25:18.160 --> 00:25:21.640 on the right. He hates obviously, he hates Trump. He 333 00:25:21.759 --> 00:25:24.880 thinks everyone on the right should be arrested and convicted. 334 00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:30.480 I found this guy on Twitter who just did a 335 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:39.559 string of tweets from Olberman from the last year, just 336 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:47.160 this year, tweets where Olberman was demanding that Democrats resign 337 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:51.440 And why now this guy follow on Twitter. He's this 338 00:25:51.559 --> 00:25:56.200 lawyer who goes by the name Jarvis Jarvis Underscore Best 339 00:25:56.680 --> 00:25:58.640 and he's very, very funny. I have no idea who 340 00:25:58.640 --> 00:26:01.079 he is. All I know he's like a lawyer from Colorado. 341 00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:06.440 But he's super funny. So he writes, I have decided 342 00:26:06.519 --> 00:26:08.440 and I've retweeted this. You can find this at my 343 00:26:08.559 --> 00:26:11.400 Twitter account Twitter dot com slash Fresno Johnny at Fresno Johnny, 344 00:26:12.799 --> 00:26:15.920 I have decided to do a new Keith thread, a 345 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:18.480 thread of tweets by Keith Oberman. I really enjoyed my 346 00:26:18.559 --> 00:26:20.920 last one, where he demanded that everyone get arrested for 347 00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:23.400 insane reasons. But this new one is made up of 348 00:26:23.480 --> 00:26:28.640 people he demands to resign. Now, Keith demands that people 349 00:26:28.720 --> 00:26:31.480 resign every day, So to keep it of reasonable length, 350 00:26:31.680 --> 00:26:35.440 I'm limiting it to one Democrats, people on his own side, 351 00:26:35.839 --> 00:26:40.319 and two a demand issued within the last year. Even 352 00:26:40.400 --> 00:26:45.359 with those restrictions, there's still a lot of content. As 353 00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:47.160 with the last thread, I will name the person who 354 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:50.400 should resign and identify the reason why they should resign. 355 00:26:50.920 --> 00:26:54.519 All right, let's go. So, here are some of the 356 00:26:54.640 --> 00:27:01.400 people that Olberman thinks should resign. All right, We'll start 357 00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:08.839 off Senator Gary Peters Senator Gary Peters is a senator 358 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:15.160 from Michigan. Gary Peters said some stuff that was kind 359 00:27:15.200 --> 00:27:17.839 of critical. He's a Democrat senator from Michigan. He said 360 00:27:17.880 --> 00:27:21.519 some stuff kind of critical of the Hunter. Biden. Pardon, 361 00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:29.759 resign you cowardly pine cone, says Keith Olberman. Now I'm 362 00:27:29.799 --> 00:27:31.880 not sure where the pine cone thing came from, is 363 00:27:31.960 --> 00:27:37.559 because Michigan's kind of a northern state, more or evergreens, 364 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:44.640 more pine cones. Not exactly sure. Olberman thought that also, 365 00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:50.480 in addition to partning Hunter, he thought Biden should preemptively 366 00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:52.839 partner all the people that he thinks Trump is going 367 00:27:52.920 --> 00:27:55.519 to prosecute when Trump comes into office. He says, you 368 00:27:55.519 --> 00:27:58.799 should issue ten million pardons today, which led people to say, oh, 369 00:27:59.319 --> 00:28:02.839 are there ten million people in Washington, DC committing crimes? Keith? 370 00:28:03.000 --> 00:28:07.880 All right, so a Democrats senator with the temerity to say, hey, 371 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:10.279 Biden said he wasn't going to pardon his son, and 372 00:28:10.319 --> 00:28:14.799 then he one did it. That's not a great look. No, 373 00:28:15.480 --> 00:28:20.559 you don't do, not dare criticize this outgoing democratic president 374 00:28:20.640 --> 00:28:24.400 where there's no harm in criticizing him, no political harm whatsoever. Nope, 375 00:28:24.839 --> 00:28:33.400 resign you, cowardly pine Cone Jared Polis. Jared Polis is 376 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:40.680 the governor of Colorado. Polus was slightly optimistic about the 377 00:28:40.880 --> 00:28:44.599 appointment of RFK Junior to be Secretary of Health and 378 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:48.319 Human Services. He said, there are some things that RFK 379 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:50.119 has said that I that I agree with, and he's 380 00:28:50.160 --> 00:28:53.440 the governor of Colorado, which is not like Colorado's not 381 00:28:53.720 --> 00:28:57.200 I think at this point a traditionally blue state, necessarily 382 00:28:57.359 --> 00:28:59.519 it's kind of a lot of hippies. They kind of 383 00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:03.039 lean a lot more crunchy. I don't think it's seems 384 00:29:03.160 --> 00:29:06.279 kind of understandable that the governor of a state like 385 00:29:06.359 --> 00:29:09.119 Colorado might kind of vibe a little bit at least 386 00:29:09.160 --> 00:29:17.279 with RFK Junior resign Judge Juan Merchon. So, Judge Juan 387 00:29:17.400 --> 00:29:22.960 Mrchon is the judge who's overseen Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan. 388 00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:28.440 This is the criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records 389 00:29:29.160 --> 00:29:34.240 with regards to payments to Stormy Daniels in exchange for 390 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:39.880 the non disclosure agreement. Mrchon has been needing to kind 391 00:29:39.920 --> 00:29:46.799 of reschedule hearings relating to Trump's sentencing because of this 392 00:29:47.359 --> 00:29:51.400 little hiccup in the prosecution. Well, two little hiccups. One 393 00:29:51.799 --> 00:29:55.000 the fact that a Supreme Court decision came down between 394 00:29:55.119 --> 00:29:59.839 the guilty verdict and the sentencing that said presidents cannot 395 00:30:00.200 --> 00:30:06.319 have evidence of official acts used against them in the 396 00:30:06.359 --> 00:30:10.759 context of criminal prosecutions, that they are immune from having 397 00:30:10.839 --> 00:30:16.359 such evidence come in. And Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney 398 00:30:16.400 --> 00:30:19.799 of Manhattan, used a bunch of that evidence in the 399 00:30:19.839 --> 00:30:24.319 Manhattan trial, although he didn't necessarily need to. But it 400 00:30:24.440 --> 00:30:28.359 was Bragg himself who called this evidence devastating against Trump. 401 00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:31.160