{"id":299754,"date":"2024-12-03T08:08:31","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T08:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299754"},"modified":"2024-12-05T07:25:02","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T07:25:02","slug":"blatant-corruption-republican-leading-biden-family-investigation-slams-hunter-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299754","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blatant Corruption\u2019: Republican Leading Biden Family Investigation Slams Hunter Pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Leif Le Mahieu \u2013 The Daily Wire Dec 2, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-253572\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Joe-and-Hunter-Biden-480x320.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 640px, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) ripped into President Joe Biden for issuing a pardon to his son Hunter on Sunday night, calling the action an attempt to avoid responsibility for \u201cblatant corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Comer, who has been leading an investigation into the Biden family, said that the pardon was an attempt to escape accountability. Hunter was scheduled to be sentenced later this month for gun and tax evasion crimes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family\u2019s corrupt influence peddling activities. Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son\u2019s foreign business associates and that his son did nothing wrong, but he also lied when he said he would not pardon Hunter Biden,\u201d Comer said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe charges Hunter faced were just the tip of the iceberg in the blatant corruption that President Biden and the Biden Crime Family have lied about to the American people. It\u2019s unfortunate that, rather than come clean about their decades of wrongdoing, President Biden and his family continue to do everything they can to avoid accountability,\u201d the Kentucky Republican added.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\uf6a8STATEMENT ON PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ISSUING A PARDON TO SON HUNTER BIDEN:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden has lied from start to finish about his family\u2019s corrupt influence peddling activities. Not only has he falsely claimed that he never met with his son\u2019s foreign business associates and that his\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. James Comer (@RepJamesComer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepJamesComer\/status\/1863387110339961024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As part of its investigation into the Bidens, the Oversight Committee has <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/the-bidens-influence-peddling-timeline\/\">said<\/a> that the president\u2019s family had\u00a0used their influence and status to make money around the globe largely beginning at the end of his vice presidency in 2015. According to the committee, the Biden family\u00a0and their associates have received over $20 million in payments from foreign entities, raising national security concerns.<\/p>\n<p>One WhatsApp message revealed last year appeared to show Hunter shaking down Chinese energy executive Henry Zhao for money in the summer of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sitting here with my father and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight,\u201d Hunter wrote to Zhao, according to the text.<\/p>\n<p>In post on X, the Oversight Committee said that the Biden administration has been marked by an \u201cunprecedented\u201d abuse of power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the lawfare against President Trump to now the pardoning of Hunter Biden, Joe Biden\u2019s unprecedented abuse of power has been a stain on the honor of the U.S. presidency,\u201d the committee said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/blatant-corruption-republican-leading-biden-family-investigation-slams-hunter-pardon\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This stinks, especially after President Biden pledged that he \u201cwill not pardon him\u201d. Was Joe\u2019s turnaround motivated by a desire to protect not only Hunter but also himself from prosecution in future? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299779,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299754\/revisions\/299779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}