WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.720 I've always thought the presidential pardon power was kind of 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:08.800 an interesting little feature of our constitution. It's really this 3 00:00:08.960 --> 00:00:14.960 holdover from the monarch of Great Britain, where the monarch, 4 00:00:15.279 --> 00:00:18.480 the King or Queen of England, has the ability to 5 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:24.280 pardon people for different kinds of criminal offenses, for criminal offenses, 6 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:32.640 and it's this sense that yes, we have the laws, 7 00:00:32.880 --> 00:00:37.079 we have criminal law, we have the role of prosecutors, 8 00:00:37.159 --> 00:00:41.399 but the system it's sort of this admission that the 9 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:44.039 system isn't always perfect, and it's this kind of fail 10 00:00:44.159 --> 00:00:50.640 safe for look, sometimes justice is done, but sometimes there 11 00:00:50.679 --> 00:00:55.679 are factors surrounding a given criminal prosecution that call for 12 00:00:55.799 --> 00:01:03.079 some measure of clemency, and that maybe the executive who 13 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:09.760 oversees the enforcement of criminal law within the jurisdiction, who 14 00:01:09.959 --> 00:01:15.239 is the top level overseer, perhaps it makes sense that 15 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.920 that person could step in to mitigate the strict application 16 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:22.879 of justice in a given circumstance, or an application of 17 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:28.719 justice that we think in retrospect was flawed or wrong. 18 00:01:30.920 --> 00:01:34.280 And as a result, the president has the ability to 19 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:41.359 pardon or commute crimes. Pardon to pardon someone for crimes, 20 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.159 to commute the sentence someone has received for a crime, 21 00:01:44.760 --> 00:01:51.719 et cetera. And it's a completely uncontestable, unreviewable power that 22 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:59.159 a president that the president has over federal crimes, in 23 00:01:59.200 --> 00:02:04.159 which a governor has over state crime, over state crimes. 24 00:02:04.840 --> 00:02:10.879 So Gavin Newsom, for example, has exercised his pardon or 25 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:14.199 commuting power. So if the governor has the power to 26 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:20.800 completely pardon someone who has committed a crime. And most crimes, 27 00:02:20.840 --> 00:02:23.039 by the way, are not prosecuted at the federal level. 28 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:26.599 They're prosecuted at the state level. So most of the 29 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:31.719 time criminal law is enforced by state criminal prosecutors. Our 30 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:35.960 prosecutor in Fresno County is Lisa Smith Camp. She's the 31 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:39.479 elected district attorney and her job is to enforce California 32 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:45.159 criminal law within the County of Fresno, and Sally Moreno 33 00:02:45.199 --> 00:02:47.159 does that for Madera County, and this person does it 34 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:51.680 for this county, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. The 35 00:02:51.719 --> 00:02:56.319 federal government has its federal prosecutors who prosecute people for 36 00:02:56.400 --> 00:02:59.120 federal crimes. And usually a federal crime is a crime 37 00:02:59.159 --> 00:03:02.800 that involves some kind of Usually it's a crime that 38 00:03:02.840 --> 00:03:07.439 involves some kind of interstate conduct or something that directly 39 00:03:07.639 --> 00:03:12.000 impacts a federal government role or something that is interstate. 40 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:16.280 So a lot of drug crime prosecution is interstate. If 41 00:03:16.319 --> 00:03:21.280 someone is really cheating, really really badly on their federal 42 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:28.240 income taxes, as Hunter Biden was, that's a federal criminal matter. 43 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:33.400 If someone lies on a federal background check before they 44 00:03:33.439 --> 00:03:38.120 get a gun, as Hunter Biden did, that results in 45 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:47.960 federal criminal prosecution. So let's talk about Hunter's pardon, and 46 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:52.159 just so you guys get a sense of like, now, 47 00:03:52.280 --> 00:03:54.879 this is a bad dude. Not that any of you 48 00:03:54.960 --> 00:03:57.199 really need to be convinced of this. I think Hunter's 49 00:03:57.280 --> 00:04:00.960 general badness is fairly well established by this point. But 50 00:04:03.199 --> 00:04:07.680 the way that Joe Biden is rationalizing this pardon for 51 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:13.800 his son is to say, look, Hunter would never have 52 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:19.000 been prosecuted had it not been for the fact that 53 00:04:19.199 --> 00:04:25.160 I'm President of the United States. This is a politicized 54 00:04:25.279 --> 00:04:30.000 prosecution that's only being brought about by his last name, 55 00:04:32.439 --> 00:04:42.360 which seems kind of insane to me. First of all, 56 00:04:42.439 --> 00:04:47.040 a lot of these prosecutions finally came to be in 57 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:53.879 the course of a Biden administration Department of Justice, under 58 00:04:54.079 --> 00:05:00.600 prosecutors who are inclined towards Biden. Why would they inclined 59 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:04.920 towards prosecuting him. I could understand if it was if 60 00:05:05.720 --> 00:05:11.560 Hunter Biden had been convicted in twenty nineteen, after the 61 00:05:12.079 --> 00:05:16.160 Trump Justice Department had ruthlessly investigated him from twenty seventeen 62 00:05:16.199 --> 00:05:22.720 onward and had nailed him for some things. Okay, that 63 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:27.120 would make sense. But Hunter didn't get convicted until this 64 00:05:27.319 --> 00:05:35.720 year for and by the way, only after for years 65 00:05:35.759 --> 00:05:40.360 the Department of Justice under both Trump and Joe Biden 66 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:47.360 trying to pursue a kind of sweetheart plea deal and 67 00:05:47.600 --> 00:05:52.519 inexplicably not indicting Hunter for all kinds of crimes that 68 00:05:52.560 --> 00:05:55.199 he never even got indicted for. So let's give kind 69 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:58.959 of the timeline here, all right, And it's very interesting, 70 00:05:59.040 --> 00:06:04.560 by the way, the things that specifically Hunter's been pardoned for. 71 00:06:05.079 --> 00:06:12.480 All Right, Hunter goes into his weird little influence pedaling business, 72 00:06:12.480 --> 00:06:15.199 because that's precisely what he was doing. He was pedaling 73 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:23.920 to foreign investors access to his dad, and he was 74 00:06:23.959 --> 00:06:27.480 getting business deals in which people were paying him or 75 00:06:27.560 --> 00:06:31.160 other members of the Biden family millions and millions of 76 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:38.519 dollars with no clear service being rendered back. And this 77 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:41.800 started when Joe was the vice president. A lot of 78 00:06:41.839 --> 00:06:43.600 this seems to have happened sort of during the second 79 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:49.000 Obama term, starting kind of twenty thirteen. Twenty fourteen seems 80 00:06:49.040 --> 00:06:51.639 to be the year when a lot of this stuff started. 81 00:06:57.319 --> 00:07:00.199 This is when Hunter started to be involved with that 82 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:05.399 Ukrainian energy company Barisma. This is when Hunter was doing 83 00:07:05.480 --> 00:07:07.959 stuff with the Chinese. Is when Hunter had that weird 84 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:12.759 flight on Air Force two for six hours going with 85 00:07:13.160 --> 00:07:17.000 Joe Biden to China where he had a business meeting 86 00:07:17.079 --> 00:07:20.519 with some Chinese tycoon who was tied in with Chinese 87 00:07:20.560 --> 00:07:24.920 intelligence and apparently never talked about his business once on 88 00:07:24.920 --> 00:07:31.720 a six hour plane flight with his dad. And the 89 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:35.160 whole setup of the business, it's so completely implausible that 90 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:37.759 by Joe Biden's oh, I didn't know anything about any 91 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:42.360 of this. The whole idea of the business of what 92 00:07:42.560 --> 00:07:47.920 Hunter and Jim Biden, who's Joe's brother, were doing was 93 00:07:48.040 --> 00:07:51.600 basically intimating to these people, I will get you access 94 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.120 to Vice President Biden and influence with Vice President Biden 95 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:00.759 if you give me money. And that's just that's what happened. 96 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:08.399 There is a lot of evidence that Joe was almost 97 00:08:08.439 --> 00:08:12.920 in controvertible evidence that Joe met with, interacted with talked 98 00:08:12.920 --> 00:08:21.920 on the phone with clients of Hunter Biden. And that's 99 00:08:22.120 --> 00:08:25.360 and that's the thing that makes this all so ridiculous. 100 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.000 Joe knew that they were peddling this influence, but the 101 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.559 explanation as well, he never actually did anything. It was 102 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:37.679 only the appearance of influence from Joe Biden. But which 103 00:08:38.279 --> 00:08:44.279 if that's true, then Joe would have sat Hunter and 104 00:08:44.399 --> 00:08:46.399 Jim down after the first time he learned about it 105 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:49.159 and said, hey, don't you ever dare sell to people 106 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:51.639 this idea that I will do something for them if 107 00:08:51.679 --> 00:08:54.679 they give you money. I can't do that. That's a 108 00:08:54.919 --> 00:08:59.679 that's a quid pro that's a corrupt looking quid pro quo. 109 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:05.200 Like it gives like this suspicion that we're engaging in bribery, 110 00:09:05.279 --> 00:09:09.519 that I'm doing legal favors for foreign governments in exchange 111 00:09:09.559 --> 00:09:13.440 for you guys getting money, Like you know this is 112 00:09:13.480 --> 00:09:20.240 benefiting me when I mean oftentimes, when a fraud scheme happens, 113 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:23.440 one of the ways prosecutors can go after people is 114 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.399 well one of the ways criminals will try to evade 115 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.279 it is by having the dirty transaction happen, but having 116 00:09:30.320 --> 00:09:35.720 the money go to the criminal's family member to their son, 117 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:43.360 to their daughter in law, et cetera. Well, that seems 118 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:45.919 to be what Biden was doing to avoid the appearance 119 00:09:45.960 --> 00:09:49.519 of money going directly into his bank accounts, to avoid 120 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:52.799 the appearance of money going directly to him. Biden knew 121 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:55.120 this was all happening. He could have stopped this whole 122 00:09:55.159 --> 00:09:56.919 thing with a snap of his fingers, and he never 123 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.120 did so. Hunter's engaged in all this activity twenty fourteen, fifteen, 124 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:07.879 twenty sixteen, twenty seventeen. Well, the way that the statute 125 00:10:08.080 --> 00:10:12.360 of limitations works in America is that basically, if you 126 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.000 have a claim or if the government has a criminal 127 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:17.120 charge to bring against you, they have to bring it 128 00:10:17.159 --> 00:10:19.720 within a certain timeframe. They have to bring it within 129 00:10:19.759 --> 00:10:22.679 a certain window. You can't wait thirty years before you 130 00:10:22.799 --> 00:10:26.440 charge someone for ola. Thirty years ago, you stole a 131 00:10:26.440 --> 00:10:33.159 snickerbar from mister mister mcbuttersworth's convenience store. Now we're going 132 00:10:33.240 --> 00:10:36.320 to charge you with a misdemeanor theft. No, you can't 133 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:40.039 do that. If you've committed theft, the government has a 134 00:10:40.039 --> 00:10:44.039 certain number of years within which they have to charge you. Similarly, 135 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:51.879 for violations of federal tax law, the federal government has 136 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.799 to charge you, has to indict you within six years. 137 00:10:56.120 --> 00:11:02.480 It's a six year statute of limitations. Hunter, for a 138 00:11:02.519 --> 00:11:05.360 lot of this money, was just basically not paying taxes, 139 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:12.519 just not paying millions and millions and millions and millions 140 00:11:12.519 --> 00:11:15.679 of dollars of income he was getting, and he just 141 00:11:15.840 --> 00:11:22.759 was not paying taxes. When you're ten thousand dollars short 142 00:11:23.679 --> 00:11:26.440 on your taxes, I don't actually know the precise numbers, 143 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.000 but I think this ballpark is accurate. When you're ten 144 00:11:29.039 --> 00:11:32.320 thousand dollars short on your taxes, the IRS is involved. 145 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.879 When you're six million dollars short on your taxes, federal 146 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.600 prosecutors get involved. This is a situation where you go 147 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.559 to jail. Okay, it's not a question of the IRS 148 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:44.799 dealing with it. This is where the DOJ Tax Division 149 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:51.559 steps in. But what seems to have been happening. Here's 150 00:11:51.600 --> 00:11:53.480 Biden not paying his taxes for years and years and 151 00:11:53.519 --> 00:11:58.720 years and years and years. He then has this gun 152 00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:02.879 charge added on, which we talk about, and prosecutors seemed 153 00:12:03.080 --> 00:12:06.519 to instead of like treating this as hey, this is 154 00:12:06.559 --> 00:12:09.600 a criminal. This is a criminal who lied on a 155 00:12:09.600 --> 00:12:13.639 federal background check, got a gun. It was used in 156 00:12:13.679 --> 00:12:16.440 a dangerous fashion that you'd suspect a druggie would use it. 157 00:12:16.720 --> 00:12:21.279 And he has millions of dollars of back taxes. He 158 00:12:21.360 --> 00:12:26.360 only got the taxes paid by a bunch of Joe 159 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:29.519 Biden for President donors who suspiciously swooped in and paid 160 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:34.399 all of his tax debt for him, which should have 161 00:12:34.480 --> 00:12:37.559 raised more than the zero eyebrows that it did raise. 162 00:12:42.200 --> 00:12:55.320 And the prosecutors instead of charging indicting Hunter by twenty twenty, 163 00:12:56.559 --> 00:13:01.080 when Donald Trump was president, they didn't indict Hunter in 164 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:04.559 twenty twenty, they didn't indict Hunter in twenty twenty one, 165 00:13:05.039 --> 00:13:07.879 they didn't indict him in eighteen, twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, 166 00:13:07.879 --> 00:13:11.039 twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. And 167 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:14.600 guess what, that six year statute of Limitations just keeps moving. 168 00:13:15.799 --> 00:13:20.039 So all of the tax stuff that Hunter did, all 169 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:25.320 of the violations of the law that Hunter may have 170 00:13:25.399 --> 00:13:30.679 committed in twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen, twenty seven, 171 00:13:31.399 --> 00:13:38.399 I think, going ball to twenty seventeen, all of that stuff, 172 00:13:39.519 --> 00:13:42.799 basically the federal government couldn't charge him for anymore because 173 00:13:42.799 --> 00:13:47.799 the Statute of Limitations had passed. It had expired. Hunter 174 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:51.600 was never actually charged with any of his federal crimes, 175 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:59.440 either his gun crime or his tax crimes, his financial 176 00:13:59.480 --> 00:14:03.679 crimes until this year, or until about a year ago. 177 00:14:07.519 --> 00:14:11.679 So all the really juicy stuff about what Joe, what 178 00:14:11.840 --> 00:14:15.039 was Hunter doing with Barisma, the Ukrainian energy company in 179 00:14:15.039 --> 00:14:17.919 twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen, all the stuff that he was 180 00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:22.879 doing while Joe was vice president, none of that has 181 00:14:22.919 --> 00:14:33.879 been indicted. The idea that Hunter was treated with unfair 182 00:14:34.720 --> 00:14:41.720 hyper focus is insane. Of course, the federal prosecutors were 183 00:14:41.720 --> 00:14:46.759 looking into him. He like he didn't pay millions and 184 00:14:46.840 --> 00:14:51.720 millions and millions of dollars of taxes. The prosecutors, even 185 00:14:51.840 --> 00:14:55.039 in the Trump era, were treating him with kid gloves. 186 00:14:55.080 --> 00:14:57.679 They continued to treat him with kid gloves in the 187 00:14:57.679 --> 00:15:01.120 Buying era. They were gonna give him this sweetheart deal, 188 00:15:02.440 --> 00:15:05.000 a plea deal where he would serve no jail time, 189 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:09.200 have only pled guilty to misdemeanor tax offenses. And the 190 00:15:09.360 --> 00:15:13.519 judge just sort of asks some basic elementary questions about it, 191 00:15:13.559 --> 00:15:16.279 like how is this being structured? So this is being 192 00:15:16.320 --> 00:15:20.200 structured where he's off the hook for absolutely everything he's 193 00:15:20.200 --> 00:15:22.840 ever done in connections, and it was so embarrassing to 194 00:15:22.879 --> 00:15:25.159 the prosecutors that they had to let the thing fall apart. 195 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:35.639 So I understand the role that the pardon power plays. 196 00:15:38.320 --> 00:15:42.240 It's a legitimate thing. I think it's a wise mechanism 197 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:46.519 within our constitution to mitigate the strict application of justice 198 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:50.559 to a specific case or circumstance where the president, a 199 00:15:50.600 --> 00:15:53.840 little detached from the on the ground work of the 200 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:58.840 federal prosecutors under his command, might say, Hey, I don't 201 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:02.960 know here this. This doesn't seem like they're mitigating circumstances 202 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:04.960 here that the prosecutor didn't seem to take into account 203 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:09.440 where there's direct like, no, this just doesn't seem right, 204 00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:14.799 This doesn't seem fair. I think that's a legitimate power. 205 00:16:15.960 --> 00:16:19.399 But this notion that's being pedaled that Hunter was unfairly 206 00:16:19.480 --> 00:16:22.799 targeted only because he's the president's son. If anything, Hunter 207 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:27.600 has been given a free pass and a free ride 208 00:16:27.639 --> 00:16:30.759 on everything for his entire life, and he's gotten away 209 00:16:30.799 --> 00:16:34.440 with everything his entire life because his dad was a senator, 210 00:16:34.559 --> 00:16:37.200 because his dad was the vice president, and now because 211 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:42.360 his dad is the president. When we return explaining a 212 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:46.559 little bit Hunter's gun thing and why it's really really 213 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:51.000 bad and further about the implausibility of Biden's explanation. Next 214 00:16:51.080 --> 00:16:55.639 on The John Growardy Show, just to remind you guys 215 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.759 about Hunter Biden's gun thing that he received a pardon 216 00:16:58.879 --> 00:17:03.080 for yesterday, President pardon which it's so hilarious, how I'm 217 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.519 not Are you gonna pardon your son? No, I'm not 218 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:09.440 gonna pardon my son. And then the election's done, I'm 219 00:17:09.480 --> 00:17:13.839 going to pardon my son. Nothing changed, Absolutely nothing changed. 220 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:20.880 There was no change in the circumstances other than the 221 00:17:20.920 --> 00:17:23.920 election was over, and it would have looked embarrassing before 222 00:17:23.960 --> 00:17:26.640 the election to have pardoned his son. Now after the election, 223 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:33.359 who cares like that? There's no like President Biden issues 224 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:35.119 this statement about it that he's like, Oh, I think 225 00:17:35.119 --> 00:17:37.079 this is a miscarriage of justice. And the more I've 226 00:17:37.119 --> 00:17:41.640 wrestled with this, the more I think, No, you don't 227 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:44.599 want your son to go to jail. Okay, I understand it. 228 00:17:45.559 --> 00:17:49.680 But you were completely lying to everyone for the whole 229 00:17:49.920 --> 00:17:52.480 rest of this past year about whether you were going 230 00:17:52.519 --> 00:17:55.079 to pardon your son or not. You knew you were 231 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:59.039 going to part like everyone with a working brain cell 232 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.519 in their head knew what was going to happen. He 233 00:18:02.680 --> 00:18:05.440 was gonna wait until after the election, and then he 234 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:09.200 was going to pardon them, especially if he lost, Like 235 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:14.680 it was no doubt that he was going to pardon Hunter. Now, 236 00:18:14.880 --> 00:18:18.880 let's just remind everybody what Hunter did. I talked to 237 00:18:18.920 --> 00:18:21.599 the first segment about the tax stuff that you know, gazillions, 238 00:18:21.640 --> 00:18:25.039 gazillions of dollars of federal income tax that he just 239 00:18:25.519 --> 00:18:30.039 refused to pay for money that was pouring into him 240 00:18:30.640 --> 00:18:33.920 by influence pedaling that his dad was the vice president, 241 00:18:33.920 --> 00:18:36.000 would maybe do something for these foreign governments that they 242 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.640 gave him money, and then he didn't pay any taxes, 243 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:43.279 and then the taxes only got paid back once criminal 244 00:18:43.319 --> 00:18:48.000 investigations were initiated, and it was a bunch of Biden 245 00:18:48.200 --> 00:18:52.519 donors who all just all just cozied up to Hunter 246 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:56.720 and were paying for his these millions of dollars of 247 00:18:56.799 --> 00:19:00.599 back taxes and interest that he owed. The money did 248 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.799 get paid back, but it was paid back by various 249 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:09.640 Biden political donors, which really I think nobody asked questions 250 00:19:09.680 --> 00:19:11.640 about this. But you know, for all the sterm and 251 00:19:11.720 --> 00:19:18.200 drown that you know, Trump paying Stormy Daniels to keep 252 00:19:18.880 --> 00:19:23.200 a non disclosure agreement, paying Stormy Daniels in exchange for 253 00:19:23.200 --> 00:19:28.559 a non disclosure agreement, that that was an unreported gift 254 00:19:28.759 --> 00:19:35.319 in kind and an unreported campaign contribution in kind campaign contribution. 255 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:37.400 That was the whole theory behind the Stormy Daniels thing. 256 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.200 The thing that people allege was wrong with Trump paying 257 00:19:41.240 --> 00:19:45.640 off Stormy Daniels, that people alleged was illegal was that 258 00:19:45.640 --> 00:19:49.359 that was a campaign expense to keep her from talking 259 00:19:49.440 --> 00:19:55.440 during the campaign, and that Trump never reported that as 260 00:19:55.480 --> 00:19:59.319 a campaign expense. That was the whole theory about why 261 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:03.160 the Stormy danil Neel's thing was illegal, which was completely implausible. 262 00:20:03.400 --> 00:20:07.319 Not everything that helps your campaign is necessarily a campaign 263 00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:12.880 expense or needs to be reported as a federal campaign expense. 264 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:20.759 So the idea that oh, Trump paying off Stormy Daniels 265 00:20:20.880 --> 00:20:25.000 all also campaign expense an on calculated campaign expense, But 266 00:20:25.480 --> 00:20:32.319 Joe Biden's own donors making his son's criminal problems go 267 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:35.079 away by paying off or attempting to make his son's 268 00:20:35.079 --> 00:20:39.200 criminal problems go away by paying off his federal tax 269 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:44.960 debt that raised no election hearing problems that raised no 270 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.359 federal elections problems that didn't raise any sort of eyebrow 271 00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:53.440 raised impropriety of no, no, no, These Biden donors didn't 272 00:20:53.480 --> 00:20:56.799 want anything in return from the Biden administration for paying 273 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.920 for his son's six million dollars worth of tax debt. No, 274 00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:02.279 they didn't want anything in return. They were just doing 275 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.839 out of the kindness of their hearts. I don't know. 276 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:08.599 All right, Well, let's talk about the gun thing real quick. 277 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:12.599 All right, long story short? Did what did Hunter do 278 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:16.880 with the gun thing? So you know what, It's long enough, 279 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:18.279 We're going to save it to the next segment. Okay, 280 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.400 So when we return Hunter got pardoned for the gun thing? 281 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:26.440 Why it seems that the left doesn't take gun stuff seriously? 282 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:28.039 And I'm going to talk about a little bit of 283 00:21:28.119 --> 00:21:30.599 Roman history in connection with all this that is next 284 00:21:30.599 --> 00:21:36.000 on the John Juwardy Show. I think Joe Biden pardoning 285 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:42.960 Hunter specifically for the gun thing is a richly ironic tale, 286 00:21:43.440 --> 00:21:48.400 and I want to talk about the insanity of how 287 00:21:49.240 --> 00:21:53.440 the left has approached just Hunter's violation of this particular 288 00:21:54.000 --> 00:22:01.759 gun crime. The Democrats have they made a gun control 289 00:22:02.440 --> 00:22:08.960 a huge aspect of what they believe as a party. 290 00:22:09.279 --> 00:22:14.319 The fundamental position is that American gun laws are too loose, 291 00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:19.119 too permissive, too many people can buy guns, too many 292 00:22:19.160 --> 00:22:22.240 people can the wrong kinds of people can buy guns, 293 00:22:22.319 --> 00:22:24.680 the kind of guns, kinds of guns they can buy 294 00:22:24.720 --> 00:22:28.720 are too powerful. The federal government or state governments should 295 00:22:28.759 --> 00:22:32.440 have far more power to regulate guns than they do. 296 00:22:32.519 --> 00:22:35.160 They are furious at the courts who say that the 297 00:22:35.160 --> 00:22:38.799 Second Amendment is an individual right that Americans possess, and 298 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.079 the broad latitude towards gun ownership that the courts have 299 00:22:43.119 --> 00:22:49.279 interpreted the Second Amendment as allowing. If Democrats completely had 300 00:22:49.319 --> 00:22:51.480 their way, I think they would eviscerate the Second Amendment 301 00:22:51.519 --> 00:22:54.599 to basically just me. Nope, the only people who can 302 00:22:55.079 --> 00:22:59.680 own guns really are militias. That's you know, the Second 303 00:22:59.680 --> 00:23:03.680 Amendment talks about a well regulated militia being necessary, that 304 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:09.640 that's the only context. It's not an individual right. In 305 00:23:09.640 --> 00:23:11.279 spite of the fact that the whole idea of a 306 00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:16.759 militia was a militia was in eighteenth century America, a 307 00:23:16.799 --> 00:23:19.880 militia was a group of individual citizens who already had 308 00:23:19.880 --> 00:23:23.079 their own guns, who had just come together for you know, 309 00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:33.680 civil defense purposes. Now, gun control is a huge aspect 310 00:23:33.680 --> 00:23:35.599 of what they believe. It's a huge aspect of what 311 00:23:35.680 --> 00:23:38.880 Joe Biden has publicly believed and talked about and promoted, 312 00:23:38.880 --> 00:23:50.319 et cetera. Hunter violated federal gun control laws. He violated 313 00:23:50.799 --> 00:23:56.920 a federal Basically, what he did was he lied on 314 00:23:57.000 --> 00:24:01.720 a federal background check in order to get a gun. 315 00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:07.799 Federal background check asked questions about drug use. Hunter lied, 316 00:24:07.880 --> 00:24:12.680 indicated he didn't have a track record with gun with 317 00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:16.160 the drug use, and Hunter Biden has a rich and 318 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:20.680 storied history of drug abuse. You could write whole novels 319 00:24:21.000 --> 00:24:29.079 about the enduring relationship Hunter Biden has with drugs. So 320 00:24:30.319 --> 00:24:34.359 there's also this aspect of it. It wasn't a lie 321 00:24:34.519 --> 00:24:40.880 and try case where someone falsifies something on a federal 322 00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:44.920 background check or on some federal document, lies to federal investigators, 323 00:24:44.960 --> 00:24:50.000 lies in some way, but doesn't accomplish the end goal 324 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:54.079 for which the lie was made. No, this wasn't lie 325 00:24:54.119 --> 00:25:00.720 and try. This was lie and succeeded on the federal 326 00:25:00.759 --> 00:25:05.880 background check, and by lying successfully was able to obtain 327 00:25:06.039 --> 00:25:09.000 at least one gun. In fact, there's evidence there was 328 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.319 a second gun. There's some evidence out there that there 329 00:25:12.359 --> 00:25:14.240 was a second gun. But Hunter was never charged with 330 00:25:14.240 --> 00:25:21.640 the second gun, just this one. And that's significant. You know, 331 00:25:24.400 --> 00:25:27.440 it's not like he was just it's not like this 332 00:25:27.599 --> 00:25:31.880 was a harmless thing altogether. He actually got a gun. 333 00:25:32.440 --> 00:25:35.119 We had the bad end result of a druggie who 334 00:25:35.160 --> 00:25:43.079 shouldn't be getting a gun getting a gun. Hunter's girlfriend, 335 00:25:43.119 --> 00:25:51.079 at the time, his dead brother's widow, was so alarmed 336 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:55.160 at the combo of Hunter having this gun and being 337 00:25:55.160 --> 00:25:58.519 a druggie that she took the gun in a moment 338 00:25:58.559 --> 00:26:00.839 of desperation, seemingly and got rid of it, got it 339 00:26:00.880 --> 00:26:02.839 out of the house and put it into a garbage 340 00:26:02.839 --> 00:26:10.640 can near a school. That's a bad end result, all right, 341 00:26:10.680 --> 00:26:15.160 That this is, this outcome is the precise kind of 342 00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:19.960 thing that the federal background check is supposed to prevent. 343 00:26:20.640 --> 00:26:24.119 It's supposed to prevent a druggie from getting a gun, 344 00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:27.440 being a erratic with the gun, and some bad outcome 345 00:26:27.519 --> 00:26:31.680 with the gun happening, in this case, specifically a gun 346 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:33.759 being put in a garbage can near a school where 347 00:26:33.799 --> 00:26:36.359 some kid could have grabbed it and shot somebody or 348 00:26:36.400 --> 00:26:42.720 shot himself or god knows what. It's the precise kind 349 00:26:42.759 --> 00:26:47.160 of thing that Joe Biden's whole career in public life 350 00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:52.799 has been pushing for preventing and writing laws to prevent, 351 00:26:55.160 --> 00:26:59.119 and the only response from the left seems to be well, 352 00:27:00.400 --> 00:27:02.880 you know, these kind of lying on federal background checks 353 00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:07.359 because it's it's prosecuted rarely. So why why would Hunter 354 00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:13.319 be prosecuted for it? Well, it's prosecuted rarely, orgo it 355 00:27:13.319 --> 00:27:16.000 should never be prosecuted. What is that? What kind of 356 00:27:16.440 --> 00:27:20.160 what kind of reasoning is that People on the right 357 00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:24.000 have also noted that if Hunt, if if Joe is 358 00:27:24.000 --> 00:27:27.559 going to pardon Hunter for crimes that are rarely for 359 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:30.680 because he committed a crime that is quote rarely prosecuted, 360 00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:36.240 does this more or less give Donald Trump carte blanche 361 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:42.200 to pardon most or maybe even all of the January 362 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:48.039 sixth protesters. Right, Many of the January sixth protesters were 363 00:27:48.079 --> 00:27:52.000 prosecuted with the kinds of things that are rarely ever 364 00:27:52.079 --> 00:27:57.440 prosecuted by the federal government. Right, most of them were 365 00:27:57.519 --> 00:28:01.440 charged with I think the name of the charges is parading. 366 00:28:02.640 --> 00:28:05.839 It's basically trespath. It's a kind of species of trespass. 367 00:28:05.920 --> 00:28:09.279 It's being on a feat being on a piece of 368 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:14.000 federal property that you're not authorized to be on. Right, So, yeah, 369 00:28:14.039 --> 00:28:17.960 the federal government owns some property that people are allowed 370 00:28:18.039 --> 00:28:22.079 to walk around on. Okay, you know the grounds of 371 00:28:22.119 --> 00:28:25.839 the Washington Monument are open to visitors, the grounds of 372 00:28:25.880 --> 00:28:30.039 the Lincoln Memorial or open to visitors, or you know, 373 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:34.880 blah blah blah. Certain areas of the Capitol are open 374 00:28:34.880 --> 00:28:38.680 to visitors, but you're not allowed to walk into places 375 00:28:38.720 --> 00:28:40.559 that are not open to visitors. If I try to 376 00:28:40.599 --> 00:28:44.599 walk onto a military base, they'll be like, hey, who 377 00:28:44.680 --> 00:28:46.880 the heck are you? You're not allowed to just walk 378 00:28:46.920 --> 00:28:49.519 in here. Okay, let's see some military ID on the 379 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:53.240 authorized personnel. That's what a lot of the January sixth 380 00:28:53.240 --> 00:28:57.200 protesters were prosecuted for. And there's never been the kind 381 00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:02.440 of super ultra aggressive of prosecution that happened to a 382 00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.559 lot of the January sixth protests. Now, some of the 383 00:29:04.640 --> 00:29:09.599 January sixth protesters did assault police officers, assault the Capitol 384 00:29:09.599 --> 00:29:13.440 police officers. That's I think needs to be that probably 385 00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:15.759 should be viewed a little differently. But if we're making 386 00:29:15.799 --> 00:29:19.160 the argument, well, a hunter's gun thing, it was rarely charged, 387 00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:22.799 so therefore hunter should just be pardoned for it, well, boy, 388 00:29:22.839 --> 00:29:25.720 we're really setting things up for a pretty broad January 389 00:29:25.720 --> 00:29:32.759 sixth pardon in that case. But beyond that, it's also 390 00:29:33.480 --> 00:29:37.680 this like it makes me think of this Roman history 391 00:29:37.680 --> 00:29:45.400 example Titus Manlius Turquatas. Now, who was this guy? He 392 00:29:45.480 --> 00:29:50.200 was a Roman politician and general in the Roman Republic. 393 00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:55.519 He was elected to be the Roman consul three different years, 394 00:29:55.559 --> 00:29:57.839 three times in three forty seven, three forty four, and 395 00:29:57.920 --> 00:30:03.759 three forty BC. The highest level magistrate in the Roman 396 00:30:03.799 --> 00:30:06.319 state who had sort of judicial powers but also like 397 00:30:06.519 --> 00:30:09.960 military powers, was the consul. And every year there were 398 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:13.319 two consuls elected, they could veto the actions of the other. 399 00:30:15.599 --> 00:30:18.119 So he was elected consul three times. This is obviously 400 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.720 a very prominent Roman. Now, he was so far back 401 00:30:21.720 --> 00:30:23.839