The widespread reaction online following the assassination of the health insurance CEO in Midtown Manhattan highlights the deep-seated anger and resentment toward the capitalist system of health care for profit.
The health care insurance oligarchs, notorious for profiting by systematically denying medical coverage, may be the most hated of the gang of capitalist oligarchs ruling this country.
The internet is full of stories about how his company denied necessary medical care, sometimes killing a family member. The shooter is being celebrated as a folk hero by many.
Genocide Joe Biden probably knows that he’s about as popular as a health industry CEO, which might explain, in part, why he gave an unconditional and complete pardon to his son Hunter.
You might ask, how’s that?
So, like Donald Trump, Hunter Biden is a felon, convicted of three tax felony charges for failure to pay $1.4 million in taxes, and, as a drug addict, he was convicted of felony possession of a firearm. It is illegal for someone who uses or is addicted to controlled substances to own or possess a firearm. He was also guilty of failing to pay child support to Lunden Roberts in Arkansas, the mother of a grandchild that Grandpa Joe refused to recognize.
Joe Biden says of Hunter, isn’t that the kind of stuff almost every rich kid does, but they don’t get treated as criminals. The only reason Hunter was targeted is because he’s the son of Joe.
Could be, but then why didn’t Joe just pardon Hunter for the tax and gun stuff and maybe throw in some pardons for others to make it look good, especially since Genocide Joe and his press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre, said numerous times that he’d never, ever, cross-my-fingers no pardon for Hunter?
The sweeping pardon covers not only Hunter’s tax and gun convictions but also any other “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.”
You may have noticed that none of the news reports asked what other offenses Hunter committed going back to 2014 require a pardon.
Ukraine 2014
The Obama administration helped overthrow Ukraine’s elected president in February 2014 (the Maidan coup) and installed a far-right regime loyal to Washington. At the time, Joe Biden was the Obama administration’s point man on Ukraine. He visited the country more than half a dozen times from 2014 to 2016.
Beginning in 2014, Joe Biden’s son Hunter served on the board of Ukraine’s largest oil and gas company, Burisma. Hunter says Burisma paid him $65,000 monthly, about $780,000 annually. (The average total pay for S&P 500 directors was $321,220 in 2023.)
In an ABC News interview in October 2019, Hunter was asked if he thought he would have been on the Burisma board if his name wasn’t Biden. “Probably not,” he said.
Burisma was under investigation by a Ukrainian prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, for corruption. NPR reported in 2018:
“At an event at the Council on Foreign Relations in 2018, Biden said that on one of his many trips to Ukraine, he told the country’s leaders that they had to get rid of the prosecutor if they wanted $1 billion in U.S. aid.”
On Aug. 11, 2023, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. Attorney David Weiss as special counsel to lead an investigation into Hunter Biden.
It turns out that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter’s dealings.
In mid-December 2023, the House of Representatives voted to initiate a formal investigation into Joe’s involvement in Hunter’s activities. There was mounting evidence that the president participated in or benefited from Hunter’s alleged criminal conduct during his father’s tenure as vice president under Barack Obama and during the period before Joe Biden was elected president in 2020.
Any reports on this investigation are usually dismissed as Republican Party politics, as a majority of Republicans controlled the House. Of course, it was politics, but that doesn’t mean that there was nothing there. In fact, politics meant that, in the end, they dropped the investigation without a final finding. They’d done all they wanted to do.
The evidence included a substantial collection of email and text message archives, along with 36,000 pages of bank records and 2,000 pages highlighting the Treasury Department’s “suspicious activity reports,” which track unusual international bank transfers. Additionally, testimonies were provided by Hunter’s business partners, federal agents, federal attorneys, and Mykola Zlochevsky, the CEO of Burisma Holdings, the largest oil and gas company in Ukraine.
The Congressional investigators found records showing that the Biden family, particularly Hunter and Joe’s brother James, received over $20 million in payments from Ukraine’s Burisma during Joe’s time as vice president. They also discovered a web of more than 20 shell companies established by the Biden family to mask payments linked to Hunter’s influence-peddling activities.
FBI investigators also found evidence of a $10 million payment that Joe and Hunter Biden reportedly received from Burisma.
In 2024, Russia’s Investigative Committee, looking into the deadly Crocus City Hall attack on March 22, 2024, which killed 145 and injured 551 concertgoers, accused Burisma of financing terrorist activities in Russia. The accusations also alleged that senior U.S. and NATO officials were involved.
Clearly, this is a crime family. Genocide Joe, who repeatedly denied any involvement in his son’s affairs, was always involved. He lied. It turns out that the pardon he gave his son may be a pardon for himself.
And there’s more to come. Politico says the White House is considering giving preemptive pardons to officials who haven’t even been accused or convicted of wrongdoing yet. What have they been doing the past four years that requires such extraordinary measures of clemency?
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