Subject: Re: Biden/s Sttatement on the Pardon
Read the book Lucky Loser. Trump and his Dad been committing tax evasion for their entire life.
And as smart as you are, I gotta believe you know that.

I am quite sure that their companies have been committing tax evasion for their entire lives. I'm equally sure that they've structured that tax evasion so that: i) there's at least a colorable argument that it's tax avoidance, rather than evasion; ii) if that colorable argument doesn't work, it's impossible to prove criminal intent, so things can be settled with a civil violation and a check; and iii) if that doesn't hold up, someone other than Trump or his Dad will be the ones committing the crime. If prosecutors had the goods on Trump for personally committing tax fraud, they would have prosecuted him for it rather than his companies.

Were you as angry about the pardon Kushner's Dad got ? How bout Bannon's pardon ? Did Trump
pardon Roger Stone ? Did Trump pardon Paul Manafort ?
I dare say that those rouge figures did a Whole Lot More Dame than Hunter ever did.

Those figures did more damage than Hunter did....but Biden's pardon of Hunter did more damage to DOJ than Trump's pardons did. Again, all of the prosecutions against Trump were premised on the idea that he wasn't being charged because he was a prominent political opponent of the party in control of those prosecutorial decisions, but because they independently determined he had committed crimes that should be charged. So when Biden turns around and claims that the prosecution of Biden resulted from DoJ succumbing to political influence, rather than the exercise of independent prosecutorial judgment, it is really bad. Because the Democratic party was arguing that Trump was wrong to pardon those guys - that Bannon and Stone and Manafort weren't targeted because of politics, but because they committed federal crimes. For Biden to then adopt Trump's reasoning makes it that much harder to make that case.