President Joe Biden‘s extraordinarily broad pardon of his son may have saved Hunter from a prison sentence, but it might actually mark the beginning of worse legal troubles for the Biden clan.
By pre-emptively shielding Hunter from the consequences of any alleged criminal conduct dating back eleven years, the President leaves his son open to virtually unlimited questioning in future Congressional, civil or even criminal investigations.
That’s because Hunter Biden can no longer claim the privilege of the Fifth Amendment – a Constitutional right that protects people from offering testimony that may incriminate them.
Since Hunter is now effectively immune from federal prosecution, he cannot plausibly claim that testimony could constitute self-incrimination.
That makes Hunter a potential key witness for years to come.
Biden’s blanket pardon is, in fact, a gift to President-elect Donald Trump‘s attorney general nominee Pam Bondi, should she ever choose to look into allegations that the Biden family has corruptly profited off foreign influence peddling for decades.
One Republican-led House committee has estimated that the Bidens and their business associates have raked in more than $27 million in overseas business deals in recent years. However, not a single Biden family member has ever registered as a ‘foreign agent’ as may be required by law.
That seems like fertile ground for investigation.
Will testify for ca$h.
It should backfire on the biden family, but it won’t.
Legally mistaken idea. He could still be subjected to state criminal prosecutions so he could still claim 5th Amendment privilege.