No president in American history has ever pardoned his family members as he prepared to exit the Oval Office. Until Joe Biden.
Now, with Donald Trump’s successful return to the White House, many lawmakers and pundits have questions about Joe Biden’s unprecedented, sweeping pardons.
Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief John Bickley sat down with bestselling author Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute, to discuss Biden’s eleventh-hour moves for an episode of “Morning Wire” that will be released this weekend.
Schweizer, who has written several books about the Biden family, including “Blood Money” and “Red-Handed,” began the conversation by stating flatly, “These sort of preemptive pardons are really unprecedented.”
With a final stroke of his pen, Biden granted pardons to five of his closest family members: His daughter Ashley Biden, his brother James and his spouse, and his sister Valerie and her spouse. Hunter Biden was pardoned by his father one month earlier, on December 2, 2024.
While politicians and pundits speculate and guess the motivation behind this recent round of pardons, Schweizer has an idea.
“What’s significant,” says Schweizer, “is all six of these people are individuals who are connected to LLCs, these limited liability companies that the family had multiple listings of.”
Not only do the LLCs offer a logical explanation for the sweeping pardons, but Schweizer believes they offer an even bigger clue as to why Joe Biden would finally agree to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.
The pardons span a little over a decade, from January 1, 2014, to December 2024, making the time frame even more suspicious. These facts lead Schweizer to speculate that Joe Biden may have cut some kind of backdoor deal before bowing out of the presidential race in July 2024.
“I think one of the unanswered questions about the Biden family — and again, if you look at the pardons that were issued to Hunter Biden and the family, they run up specifically through December of last year. So any crimes that would have been committed in 2024 would be covered as well. And you wonder, well, what does that mean? Well, that could be the Hunter Biden art deals that were very controversial,” Schweizer said.
“But I also think it’s worth looking at this period when Joe Biden had that disastrous debate performance with Donald Trump, and he spent about four or five weeks refusing to get out of the race, and Hunter Biden moved into the White House,” he added. “I believe – I don’t have evidence to confirm this – I believe that the Biden family negotiated financial deals to secure his exit from that race. Whether that crosses the legal line and is illegal, I don’t know, but I think that is worth looking into as well. It certainly fits their pattern of monetizing things. It certainly makes sense that Hunter Biden was at the center of it – that’s where a lot of this money would flow through. And that would, of course, raise questions about what they might be doing in the post-presidential years and the money they might be living off of in this case.”
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Schweizer also argued that Biden’s sweeping pardons of his family members could come back to bite the former president, highlighting a point made by attorney Alan Dershowitz earlier this week. Dershowitz said that while Biden’s pardons protect his family from criminal charges, they take away their ability to plead the Fifth Amendment if they are subpoenaed by Congress, The Daily Caller reported.
“One of the reasons the president gave [for the pardons] is he doesn’t want his relatives and friends and people who are good people in his view to be subject to the expenses of massive investigation. Duh, you didn’t stop that. Congress can still investigate all these people,” Dershowitz said.
“In fact, they’ve lost their Fifth Amendment privilege,” he added. “So, now, if Congress subpoenas them, they have to testify, they can’t claim the Fifth Amendment. So, your brother and all the others can be called in front of the Republican-controlled Senate committee or House committee.”
Schweizer acknowledged the critical role Trump’s nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, may play in any new investigations into the Biden family business. He told “Morning Wire” that it’s important for Trump’s DOJ to continue looking into the Biden family’s business deals, saying it’s “not about retribution” or “being vindictive.”
“It’s simply trying to get clarification and facts of what actually transpired and what these Chinese, Russian, and Ukrainian entities actually got in exchange for sending millions of dollars to Joe Biden’s family,” he said.
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