Hunter has been pardoned for two types of crimes:
The known stuff...fairly minor transgressions that arguably would have been handled differently by the feds but for his lineage.
To date unprosecuted crimes which hypothetically involve influence peddling in Ukraine and elsewhere, using his dad's credentials.
Having received a pardon, he can no longer plead the 5th if a congressional committee decides to investigate how any bad acts may have benefited Joe. That should be interesting.
Bless Me, Father, For I Have Sinned!
By Greg Ganske, Kass News
December 11, 2024
To my chagrin I realize that I have something in common with Hunter Biden. I have been the beneficiary of forgiveness, mine Divine and Hunter’s an abuse of the presidential pardon.
I had gone to confession before but never received the blanket forgiveness of Extreme Unction as it was called in my altar boy days, or the Sacrament of the Sick as it’s now called. However, in July 1996, while on a surgical mission overseas I caught a life-threatening encephalitis. Monsignor stopped by my hospital bed and asked if I wanted the Sacrament of the Sick, AKA the last rites. I mumbled yes and Monsignor whispered in my ear with a twinkle in his eye, “And with your new job in politics I’d highly recommend it!” The sacrament absolved me of all my sins, and I recovered!
The second time I received this type of complete absolution was in a confessional just before Christmas at St. Peter’s in Rome. We were visiting our daughter and touring the nearly empty basilica when I spotted a row of confessionals with different languages on the doors. So, I entered the English confessional, knelt, and told the priest through the curtain my list of sins. The priest must have been lonely. It turned out he was from Boston studying at the Ecclesiastical College. He was thorough and started with the Baltimore Catechism from A to Z!
My knees aching, I thought we were done when he asked me what I did for a living. I said I was a doctor, fearing if I said politician I would never get out of there. “Oh, ‘doctor,’ have you done an abortion?” No. “Do you prescribe birth control?” No. “Well, what kind of doctor are you!” A plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He couldn’t think of any sins associated with my specialty, so he absolved me, gave me my Hail Mary’s. Twenty-five minutes after entering I staggered out to the amused look of my family.
However, the weight of all my life’s transgressions had been forgiven. I felt like I could fly.
So, did Hunter kneel down before Father Joe and confess all his possible and convicted crimes all the way back to 2014? He must have confessed about how he lied on the veracity of his laptop. Of course, he was abetted by all the false claims that it was Russian disinformation but it was Hunter that was seeking dispensation not those in the intelligence community and the FBI who abetted his lies, though they, too, may need Father Joe’s absolution before he leaves office.
He certainly must now feel as if the weight of all that Biden family fundraising activity, the hiding of it in offshore accounts and avoidance of taxes, the illegal drug purchases, the gun violations, all of it, was now lifted from him. Even activity that has not yet been litigated like how his priest, “The Big Guy,” may have also benefited from the payoffs from Burisma was now absolved.
Hunter joined the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma in 2014 so that the pardon covers the accusations that he used his father’s name to enrich himself and provided kickbacks to his father. Biden’s pardon covers potential perjury charges against Hunter and thus protects the president as well as his son in hampering any effort to criminally charge him, also, in the influence-peddling scandal.
Did Hunter just say to his Father Joe, “Let’s just make this easy. I’ve sinned since 2014, so can’t you just absolve me of everything I may have thought or done in that time period?” And as John Stewart added, “on Earth-One or any of the Earths in the multiverse.”
Never mind that legal experts can’t find a parallel for Father Biden’s absolution which covers an unprecedented period, has no limits on the types of crimes pardoned, and includes a prospective pardon for any other nefarious actions Hunter may have done
The weight was lifted from Hunter’s shoulders—and even better–no prison by the sign of the pardon cross from Father Joe. Oh, happy day! God, at least, requires penance and an act of contrition. Not so Father Joe, just,” In nomine Patris, et Filli, et Spiritu Sanctus. . .and stay away from the crack!”
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Greg Ganske, MD, is a retired plastic and reconstructive surgeon who cared for women with breast cancer, children with birth defects, farmers with hand injuries, burn victims and other trauma patients. He served Iowa in the US Congress from 1995-2003.
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