BACK in May, President Biden issued a pointed tweet.
Writing on the platform now known as X, the post read simply: “No one is above the law”.
The comment was about his predecessor in the Oval Office — President Trump.
The former (and future) President was undergoing a set of trials at the time, which Trump’s supporters believe to be entirely politically motivated.
Joe Biden and the Democrat party machine set prosecutors after Trump in multiple states, all the time in search of a crime.
As is the way of prosecutors in the US, if they look for a crime they will find one. Sure as anything.
But wow, how six months seems able to change things.
Enriched themselves
President Biden recently announced his decision to pardon his son, Hunter, of all current and potential future charges. This move has attracted attention and criticism from various sources.
This is in spite of him swearing in the past that he would do no such thing.
The specific charges that Hunter Biden was awaiting sentence for related to tax evasion and ownership of a gun which he had lied about on purchase.
He is now going to be pardoned of these charges.
But it is the pardoning of him for other potential charges which rankles many Americans most.
Through the efforts of Miranda Devine, the New York Post, and other investigators, it has come to light that the Biden family, particularly Hunter and brother James, have been involved in questionable business dealings linked to someone referred to as “the big guy.”
For years members of the family enriched themselves thanks to their closeness to the man who was Vice President before he became President.
Most notoriously, Hunter sat on the board of an energy company in Ukraine called Burisma.
The company paid him millions of dollars to sit on their board.
Despite Hunter having precisely zero knowledge or expertise in gas.
Or in anything much.
But Hunter Biden’s exploits finally came to a head in 2020 when a laptop he left at a repair shop found its way into the hands of the New York Post.
Drug of choice
Hunter was a drug addict at the time. His chosen drug of choice appeared to be crack.
And perhaps it was for this reason that he dropped his computer off at a repair shop then never picked it up.
Before the Trump-Biden election in 2020, the story of the “laptop from hell” was published. It showed a lot of things.
Some of the media that did pick up the story focused on Hunter’s bizarre behaviour.
Hunter Biden’s behavior has raised eyebrows, with reports indicating a pattern of self-destructive actions such as photographing himself engaging in illicit drug use and activities with prostitutes.
This was salacious stuff.
Salacious stuff
But much more important — and what got buried — was the influence-peddling.
The laptop had thousands of emails and other messages to and from Hunter that showed the way in which he and other members of the Biden family were making money by using their famous relative.
This showed a seriously corrupt family. But the story was literally suppressed.
The New York Post had its Twitter and other social media pages locked. This was pre-Elon Musk Twitter.
Other media pretended that the whole story was what the Americans call “a nothing-burger”.
Worse still, there was an organised attempt to discredit the story.
More than 50 former US intelligence agents signed a letter claiming that the story bore the hallmarks of a Russian intelligence operation.
This was during the time when the Democrats were obsessed with the idea that Russia had somehow got Trump into the White House.
They had spent four years saying “Russia Russia Russia”, despite never producing any evidence.
In fact, the real election interference was by those US intelligence sources.
It was they who colluded to suppress the Hunter Biden story.
It was they who decided without even having seen the contents of the laptop that it was a tool to push the election Trump’s way.
Crack-smoking
During the years since it is those intelligence agents and others who showed that they were not just wrong, but part of a cover-up.
It was a disgraceful piece of interference — on the free Press and on a US election.
Hunter Biden knew that what he had already been charged with would hover over him.
And he knew — as did his father — that there was every chance that charges much more serious than crack-smoking would come to light.
The Democrats weaponised the justice system against Trump. And pretended that nobody was above the law.
Now they are heading out of office, we learn that things are quite otherwise.
It turns out that some people can be above the law. But your surname has to be “Biden”.
