Final month, Hunter Biden, son of President Joe Biden, reached a cope with prosecutors to plead responsible to 2 misdemeanor tax costs stemming from paying his taxes late in 2017 and 2018. (As a part of the deal, he additionally agreed to be charged, however not prosecuted, for buying a handgun at a time when he was utilizing medication, which is contingent on him by no means proudly owning a firearm once more and remaining drug-free for 2 years.) Naturally, this deal enraged conservatives, who’ve insisted for a while now that president’s son is essentially the most corrupt individual to stroll the face of the earth, that his dad is simply as dangerous, and that as punishment, each Hunter and Joe needs to be despatched to Guantánamo Bay in a deal that additionally includes Donald Trump being put in as president for all times.
Clearly, that entire Guantánamo Bay/Trump-as-emperor is merely a parody of the issues Republicans have mentioned concerning the Biden Boys; whereas it’s fairly shut, nobody has really referred to as for them to be despatched to the infamous detention camp identified for housing terrorists. However as of Tuesday, at the least one individual had advised that Biden the Youthful ought to have been sentenced to dying for his crimes, and you may most likely take a guess as to who that individual was.
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Sure, that’s former U.S. president and present presidential candidate raging on Reality Social that federal prosecutor David Weiss didn’t give Hunter Biden “a dying sentence” for his aforementioned crimes, which, as a reminder, have been paying his taxes late two years in a row and shopping for a gun when he was utilizing medication. That is humorous for lots of causes, together with however not restricted to the truth that:
- Trump’s household enterprise was discovered responsible final 12 months of tax fraud, conspiracy, and falsifying enterprise data
- Trump himself reportedly “participated in doubtful tax schemes through the Nineteen Nineties, together with situations of outright fraud,” in keeping with a Pulitzer Prize–successful investigation by The New York Occasions*
- Trump has been {accused} of a lot worse crimes than not paying his taxes on time, together with conspiracy to impede a federal investigation (to which he pleaded not responsible); he’s additionally beneath investigation by the feds for making an attempt to overturn the 2020 election and inciting a violent riot that left 5 folks lifeless, and going through potential costs for making an attempt to overturn the election in Georgia.
Additionally amusing is the notion put forth by Trump that there are “TWO TIERS OF JUSTICE.” There are, however for a lot of a long time he’s been a beneficiary of the two-tier system, on account of being a rich man with energy. In the meantime, he was blissful to assist do his half to see harmless folks despatched to jail.
*A lawyer for Trump insisted to the Occasions that no fraud or tax evasion ever happened, however that if it did Trump wasn’t concerned and it needs to be pinned on his staff and siblings. “There was no fraud or tax evasion by anybody,” the legal professional mentioned. “The details upon which the Occasions bases its false allegations are extraordinarily inaccurate. President Trump had just about no involvement in any way with these issues. The affairs have been dealt with by different Trump relations who weren’t specialists themselves and due to this fact relied solely upon the aforementioned licensed professionals to make sure full compliance with the legislation.”
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