SPECIAL--MM#374 -- Joe Biden's "Brotherhood of Thieves"

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Welcome to the Theory to Action podcast, where we examine the timeless treasures of wisdom from the great books in less time, to help you take action immediately and ultimately to create and lead a flourishing life.

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Now here's your host, david Kaiser.

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Hello, I am David and welcome back to another special Mojo Minute.

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Yes, this will be a long special Mojo Minute because, frankly, I have a lot to get off my chest.

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This past Friday, just as Americans were going about their Black Friday traditions of Christmas shopping and getting the Christmas decorations up, the President of the United States was going about his traditions too.

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He lunched with his family in Nantucket at a whaling bar and tavern called the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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That name which will prove to be a lasting lump of coal and most poignant capstone to this president, what he's given to the country and the nation.

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We're going to keep that name in the back of our mind, the name of that Wailing Barn Tavern, a brotherhood of thieves.

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After lunch, the president then strolled down to a local Nantucket bookstore to either buy a book or be given a book as a gift, which just screams anti-Semitic as they come.

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Book's title was the Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi.

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The book was seen under the president's arm as it came out of the bookstore, so we're not sure again if it was a gift or if he bought the book.

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Rashid Khalidi is the author of said book.

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He's a Palestinian-American historian and he's a professor at Columbia University, a campus, we might add, that has seen just in the year the hate against the Jewish race only increase with protest, and a recent task force by the university itself shared even more anti address hate on campus and treat its Jewish students' concerns with appropriate standards.

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Even some Jewish and Israeli students reported experiencing ethnic slurs, stereotypes, threats and physical violence, especially with exclusion from student groups.

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So is this the appropriate material, this book, for the President of the United States to be reading or even holding on to?

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We think not.

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One can only think back to another president and cringe.

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That president would be Woodrow Wilson, the racist president that he was and his defending of the KKK, sanctioning of the movie Birth of a Nation, which President Wilson approved and watched in the White House.

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For President Biden, this anti-Semitism and his toleration of it doesn't go anywhere.

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Good never leads to anywhere good.

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Mr President, you need to be better, especially since both Israel and our country still have hostages, some 97 in total, that are still not recovered since the 10-7 attack of last year, and the President of the United States is carrying around that book.

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Disgusting, it's frankly the worst president we've ever had Remember that name the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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But then the president moved down the road to more traditional events with his family the ceremonial Christmas tree lighting in the local square, joining in with some Christmas carolers as the crowds looked on.

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How pleasant, how it's, a wonderful life View.

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And speaking of his family, his son, hunter Biden, was with him and he was all smiles, as surely he knew a presidential full pardon was in the works.

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It was actually happening for Hunter.

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The family lawyers were hard at work over that Black Friday and so, on Sunday, december 1st 2024, our current US President, joseph Biden, pardoned his son, robert Hunter Biden, and a pardon described as full and unconditional.

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Hunter Biden quote has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1st 2014 through December 1st 2024.

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Again, during the period from January 1st 2014 through December 1st 2024.

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This pardon encompasses both the federal gun and corrupt moves during the Joe Biden administration.

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This president rewarded his bag man and most likely was also pardoning himself too.

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So again, remember that name Brotherhood of Thieves.

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Now you might think oh, david, that's total hyperbole.

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You're just anti-Joe Biden.

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You just hate Joe Biden so much.

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You would be correct.

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I dislike Joe Biden in equal amounts that Joe Biden hates the United States of America and hates over 80% of this country.

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That is the same amount that I dislike Joe Biden.

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You're absolutely right.

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He hurts the country each and every day by his words, his actions and, frankly, his inactions.

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If you think this pardon is just a run-of-the-mill pardon and is not corruption at the highest level, then I think you should rethink that position.

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In fact, check out the Politico article.

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Certainly not the arch-conservatives over at Politico by any stretch of the imagination, but here's the first two paragraphs of this Politico article.

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Hunter Biden's pardon looks a lot like Richard Nixon's.

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President Joe Biden's grant of clemency on Sunday night, aninary political act with extraordinary legal breadth, insulates his son from ever facing federal charges over any crimes he possibly could have had and committed over the past decade the past decade.

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And now let us turn to liberal constitutional lawyer Jonathan Turley, whom I respect a lot for his opinion.

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Again, jonathan Turley is no conservative by any stretch.

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What does Mr Turley say about this grant of clemency, this presidential pardon?

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Let's just read the first paragraph.

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President Joe Biden's decision to use his presidential powers to pardon his son will be a decision that lives in infamy in presidential politics.

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It is not just the president used his constitutional powers to benefit his family.

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It is because the action culminates years of lying to the public about his knowledge and intentions in the influence-peddling scandal surrounding his family.

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Even among past scandals, in the abuse of the pardon power, biden has done lasting damage not just to his legacy but his office.

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And later on we read again from Turley the pardon power was written in absolute terms and a president can even, in my view, pardon himself.

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However, what is constitutional is not necessarily ethical or right.

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This is one of the most disgraceful pardons, even in the checkered history of presidential pardons.

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President Biden has lied to cover up a corruption scandal that reportedly brought his family millions and raw influence peddling brought his family millions and raw influence peddling.

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His portrayal of his son as a victim stands in sharp contrast to the sense of immunity and power conveyed by Hunter in his dealings.

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Again, that was Jonathan Turdley, a known liberal lawyer, but a man whose opinion I respect.

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So again, remember the name of that restaurant the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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It keeps coming back over and over again.

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Now, for a long time, president Joe Biden has made multiple statements indicating he would not pardon his son In June 2024, during an interview with ABC News, biden dismissed the possibility of a pardon in clemency for his son.

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As recently as November 8, 2024, white House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre reiterated Biden's stance, stating we have been asked that question many times.

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The answer stands, which is no.

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And in June 2024, biden stated I said I will abide by what the jury says and I will not pardon him.

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And so we are in this last month of 2024, and boy, george Orwell's book 1984 certainly certainly keeps coming back to our minds because we have lived through a large number of 1984-type events in this year of 2024.

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Now, more to come on that later.

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But you'll remember from George Orwell's novel 1984, one of the classic novels.

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Hopefully you have read it in your lifetime you should.

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If you haven't, you will remember George Orwell's rites of ideas and communications and how the characters in the book used language to criticize and try to destroy a free and open society.

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You might even remember the Newspeak, the fictional language in Orwell's 1984.

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Do you remember Many Love, which is the ministry of love, and it actually deals with law and order.

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Do you remember mini PACS, the ministry of peace, which actually deals with war?

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How fitting.

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And mini, true, that's the ministry of truth.

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It spreads propaganda and rewrites history.

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That's the ministry of truth.

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It spreads propaganda and rewrites history.

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And then one of the most famous phrases from the book quote war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength.

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Those were all the slogans from the novel, and so it is, with all of that, how we view this administration's last four years A 1984 in 2024, and, frankly, for the last four years, joe Biden's no really means yes.

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After all, it's 1984 all over again.

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Now we have shared how corrupt and terrible this administration has been from this microphone many, many times.

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We'll put those links in the show notes.

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We do in fact believe wholeheartedly he is the worst president in the history of the country.

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We make that claim and we back it up.

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But in fairness, let's in fact take a step back on this episode and look at a very broad view of presidential pardons to see how this one stinks and rots and smells Just overwhelmingly smells from very, very far away.

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Let's try and get objective, shall we say.

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For example, let's ask two broad questions.

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The first question what are the top 10 most controversial presidential pardons in US history?

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Let's see Now, before we answer that question real quick for all you students that have not learned where presidential pardons come from, or didn't take a government class or a civics class in your high school.

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Perhaps you were part of the indoctrination that was at a full 11 on a scale of 10.

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We sympathize with you.

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We get it.

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So here you go.

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Here's your little civics lesson.

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The presidential pardon is ultimately enshrined in Article 2, section 2 of the Constitution.

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You should read it Giving the president broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment.

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You can also please check Alexander Hamilton's defense of this broad executive power in Federalist no 74.

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These Federalist Papers are something every citizen should be required to learn as part of our founding documents, in addition to the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

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So it is with that understanding where the power is vested and where it comes from that we dig into our question.

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What are the top 10 most controversial presidential pardons in US history?

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Of George Washington in 1795.

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George Washington pardoned John Mitchell and Philip Weigel for their roles in the Whiskey Rebellion.

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This was controversial as it set a precedent for using pardons as a tool for political reconciliation.

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Number two the Brigham Young pardon of 1858.

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Second worst president in the United States, james Buchanan, who sits right behind Joe Biden.

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Yes, they have the same initials, but we won't hold that against them.

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James Buchanan pardoned Brigham Young for his role in the 1857 Utah War.

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This pardon was contentious due to the religious and political tensions surrounding the Mormon leader.

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This pardon was contentious due to the religious and political tensions surrounding the Mormon leader.

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Number three of the most controversial presidential pardons in US history the Confederate Soldiers' Amnesty of 1868.

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Andrew Johnson granted full pardons and amnesty to soldiers who had fought for the Confederacy in the US Civil War.

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This was extremely highly controversial, with critics arguing that Johnson was being too lenient with those who had committed treason against the Union.

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Number four of the most controversial presidential pardons in US history was the Whiskey Ring Pardons of 1875 and 1876 granted by Ulysses S Grant, in which he pardoned several individuals involved in the Whiskey Ring scandal, including his personal secretary, orville Babcock.

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These pardons were seen as protecting Grant's allies and potentially obstructing justice.

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Now, moving into the 20th century for our fifth most controversial pardon Socialist Eugene V Debs' commutation, which happened in 1921.

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Warren Harding commuted this sentence of Eugene V Debs.

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Harding commuted this sentence of Eugene V Debs, who was frankly had been imprisoned for speaking out against US involvement in World War I.

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While technically it's not a pardon, this action was controversial at the time due to Debs' socialist views and his anti-war stance.

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Number six on our list the Prohibition-era pardons from 1933 to 1945.

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President Franklin Roosevelt issued numerous pardons related to the Prohibition violations.

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While not individually controversial, the sheer volume there was over some 3,700 total acts of clemency over those 12 years which raised eyebrows everywhere in the legal community.

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Number seven of our top 10 list of most controversial presidential pardons the draft Dodger pardons of 1945 to 1953.

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Harry Truman pardoned over 1,500 people convicted of violating the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940.

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These pardons were controversial due to their sensitive nature of the military service during and after World War II.

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And then we get to the infamous pardoning of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford in 1974.

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It's eight on our list.

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Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon before any indictment for potential Watergate-related crimes and that was controversial in and of itself as well, as it was seen potentially as obstructing justice and preventing full accountability for Richard Nixon, and it was criticized for appearing to place Nixon above the law.

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It was certainly one of the worst and one of the most broad and sweeping pardons in history in the history of the country.

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It was written for a full five years, going all the way back to 1969, when President Nixon started his administration.

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And the ninth on our list of top 10 most controversial presidential pardons was Mark Rich by Bill Clinton in 2001.

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Rich was a fugitive financier facing 65 criminal charges, including tax evasion.

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Rich's ex-wife had made substantial donations to the Democratic Party and the Clinton Library, which raised many questions about the potential quid pro quo and the abuse of power.

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And number 10 on our list of most controversial presidential pardons Charles Kushner by Donald Trump in 2020.

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Charles Kushner was Trump's uh.

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Charles Kushner was uh, well, he was the father of Trump's son-in-law, gerald Jared Kushner.

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Charles Kushner was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering.

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It was seen as a pardon based on the personal connections to the president rather than the merit to the president rather than the merit.

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Incredibly incredibly, donald Trump has nominated Charles Kushner after that pardon in 2020.

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He's just pardoned, or he just nominated him, frankly, as the ambassador to France.

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We have to say, mr President-elect, that was a bad choice, but you can't make this stuff up.

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It's 2024.

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So there's many people stepping on a rake everywhere we look.

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Now we need to add one more to our list because, after all, it was Barack Obama who'd pardoned a Puerto Rican nationalist, oscar Lopez, in 2017.

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Lopez was serving a 55-year prison term for plotting to overthrow the US government and an additional 15 years for conspiring to escape from Leavenworth Federal Prison.

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He had his sentence commuted by then-President Obama and the details around the whole case are still murky today and no one has been forthcoming Again.

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It happened in 2017, when things started, frankly, to get very 1984-ish, very George Orwellian, and the legacy of major media was able to sweep many of Barack Obama's shortcomings under the rug, as he was the outgoing president and the media darling.

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So that was our first broad question, where we try to take an objective look and look at the top 10 most controversial presidential pardons in US history.

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So our second broad question is what's the scope and limitations of presidential pardons as defined by the Constitution?

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Well, let's take the scope first.

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What's the scope of presidential pardons?

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Well, there are four federal offenses only.

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The president can only pardon offenses against the United States, meaning federal crimes, not state crimes or civil wrongs.

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He does have broad authority.

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Supreme Court has recognized the president's pardon power as plenary, which means quite powerful and largely not subjected to legislative modification.

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Frankly, I don't think there's ever been a legislative modification to any presidential pardon.

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Now pardons can be issued at any time, during or after the commission of a federal offense, and even before charges are filed or a sentence has been imposed.

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Now there's various types of clemency.

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The pardon power includes full pardons, amnesties for groups, commutations, which is, sentence reductions, and reprieves, meaning delays in punishment.

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Now there are limitations to presidential pardons which many people don't understand.

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There is the impeachment exception.

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The Constitution explicitly states that pardons cannot be used in cases of impeachment.

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Now there's more to come on that be used in cases of impeachment.

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Now there's more to come on that Presidential pardons cannot be issued for crimes not yet committed, they cannot be extended to state-level offenses and they do not apply to civil lawsuits, meaning civil cases, and they cannot be vested of third-party rights, such as when property is forfeited or sold.

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There are constitutional constraints to presidential pardons.

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There can be conditions attached to pardons, but it must not violate other constitutional provisions, violate other constitutional provisions.

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And while criminal contempt can be pardoned, civil contempt cannot be pardoned by a US president.

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Now there are some resolved questions in the legal community about presidential pardons, and they're going to come into effect with this current presidential pardon by Joe Biden of his son, hunter Biden.

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And the number one unresolved issue is the constitutionality of a president pardoning himself or themselves.

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It still remains unclear and untested in the courts.

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Frankly, there's more to come on this, especially regarding Donald Trump.

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Once Donald Trump assumes office, can he pardon himself after the federal conviction in New York City?

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There's also unresolved issues with contempt of Congress.

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Whether the president can pardon contempt of Congress is still an open question.

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And then the conditional pardons which conditions can be attached to pardons is subject to various debates.

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While the presidential pardon is broad, it's not absolute.

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Now let's get specific, because why is Joe Biden's pardon of Hunter Biden so rotten and why is it so unique and thereby controversial?

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Well, for several reasons.

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Like we said in the beginning, president Biden had repeatedly assured the public that he would not pardon his son.

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As recently as June, he emphatically stated he would not pardon him.

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This sudden reversal has led to accusations of dishonesty, lying directly to the American people on numerous occasions and, frankly, frank hypocrisy.

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Now, two items stick out to us like a sore thumb.

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Unlike most pardons, which are granted after sentencing or completion of a punishment.

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Hunter Biden's pardon came before he was sentenced for his crimes.

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The pardon was issued while Hunter Biden still had active criminal cases pending, including his gun and tax charges.

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Now, the biggest stain of rot and stink in this whole affair is the pardon covers not only Hunter's known convictions, is the pardon covers not only Hunter's known convictions but also any potential federal offenses committed between January 2014 and December of 2024.

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Holy smokes, 11 full years of his life.

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Again, remember that name the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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This pardon goes back to Joe Biden being vice president and then continuing on as Joe Biden becomes president.

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This is unprecedented for an individual.

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Yes, there has been mass groups that have been pardoned.

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We have the example of the Confederate soldiers in 1868.

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They were pardoned as a whole group.

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The Draft Dodgers in 1947, as a whole group, but never one particular person for over a decade of their life.

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President Nixon was pardoned for five years he was president.

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So this coupled with the connection to the big guy as vice president and then as president, and what we know now is Hunter Biden was in fact the bag man for his dad.

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And yes, it's extremely rare for a president to pardon an immediate family member, which just raises more questions and concerns about nepotism and the abuse of power.

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But boy, we've seen it all before.

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By all accounts, this pardon bypassed typical pardon practices, which usually involve recommendations from the office of the pardon attorney for individuals who have demonstrated rehabilitation.

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But here's the biggest kicker Most presidents in the modern era just say for the last 100 years they saved the most controversial and the most corrupt pardons for the last week of their term in office.

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This pardon comes in the beginning of December.

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So buckle up the last 50 days of this most corrupt of administrations and this, frankly, the worst of administrations, dating back to James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson.

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We still have time.

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There's still more time to reveal the corruption of character of Joe Biden.

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All this just smells rotten, rotten to the core.

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Now we will wait for the books to be written on this whole sordid affair.

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But while we wait, we can point you to two books we believe you should be reading to prepare you for what is coming in the next 50 days.

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Our first book is Profiles in Corruption, which we have featured here, by Peter Schweitzer.

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It investigates alleged corruption among America's progressive leaders, including Joe Biden, and it focuses primarily on his financial dealings and his abuse of power, and recently we just finished a book by Miranda Devine called the Big Guy.

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It explores Biden's family business dealings and his government cover-ups and Joe Biden's alleged involvement in Hunter Biden's activities.

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We highly highly recommend both of these books.

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We highly highly recommend both of these books.

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Frankly, we went out and searched for what Miranda Devine would say about this presidential pardon and we found her opinion piece in the New York Post.

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We think it's worth reading a bit for you.

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Let's go to that article.

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You, let's go to that article.

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The Bidens are correct when they say that the legal system was corrupted by political leaders in this country, whereas Joe puts it.

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The raw politics has infected the process, but not in the way they pretend.

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Hunter got an unfair advantage because of his father's power.

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He broke laws with impunity and knew that nobody would ever stop him from doing exactly what he wanted.

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Every time he slipped up, his father and his minions in the FBI, the DOJ, the IRS, the State Department and the CIA all intervened to get him off the hook.

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The corrupted investigation in Delaware was just the tip of the iceberg.

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Hunter didn't even have to worry about the legal fees or the living expenses to support his lavish lifestyle.

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Daddy's donors always came through.

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The person who corrupted the legal system in this country is Joe Biden.

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He weaponized it against his political nemesis, donald Trump, and Trump supporters.

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Trump is the victim of unjust prosecution, not Hunter.

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But the American people understand that, as they proved on election day when they elected Trump in a landslide, despite the lawfare.

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That's why the news of Hunter's pardon is the least surprising news of the decade.

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Nobody believes the word of a Biden.

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And again, the biggest part of all of this rot and stink is the scope of it, for the fact that it's from January 2014 to December 1st of 2024, man I'm man of Chevy 11 full years goes back to Joe Biden being vice president.

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That's unbelievable.

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And then again as he becomes president, and for the full four years of him being president.

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That's just frankly, folks, that's unprecedented for an individual.

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If this is not the worst, what else is coming?

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If this is not the worst, what else is coming is not the worst.

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What else is coming?

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Just two more points.

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The reaction to this over the last three days has been quite telling.

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In fact, none of this sat well with the IRS whistleblowers who wrote a scathing statement about Biden's pardon and the lies he's telling the American people.

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Let's in fact go to that quote.

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No amount of lies or spin can hide the simple truth that the Justice Department nearly let the president's son off the hook for multiple felonies.

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We did our duty, we told the truth and followed the law.

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Anyone reading the president's excuses now should remember that Hunter Biden admitted to his tax crimes in a federal court, that Hunter Biden's attorneys have targeted us for our lawful whistleblower disclosures and that we are suing one of those attorneys for smearing us with false accusations.

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President Biden has the power to put his thumb on the scales of justice for his son, but at least he had to do it with a pardon, explicitly for all the world to see, rather than his political appointees doing it secretly behind the scenes.

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Either way, it is a sad day for law-abiding taxpayers to witness this special privilege for the powerful.

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And from the Wall Street Journal editorial board we read this Legal experts are saying they've never seen a pardon so open-ended, other than maybe Gerald Ford's for Richard Nixon.

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Add to this list of democratic norms broken by Mr Biden, who claims to stand up for them, and later on I hope Americans will understand why a father and a president would come to this decision.

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Mr Biden said, as a father yes, but what a pitiful end to his presidency In 2020,.

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He promised a return to normalcy, defended Hunter's influence hustling and claimed Hunter's laptop was Russian disinformation.

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Then he tried to be FDR.

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He encouraged the prosecution of Mr Trump and gave his son a get out of jail free card.

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The history books will not be kind to President Biden.

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No, they will not.

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Those history books will not be kind to President Biden.

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And again we ask you to remember that name the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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It's so poignant.

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My final reaction to just one sentence that was part of President Biden's statement is this he said for his entire career, I have followed a simple principle just to tell the American people the truth.

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Folks, let me just say that statement is so far from the truth that no solar system has Joe Biden ever, for one year, observed the truth in his life.

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That statement in its entirety, that statement in just one sentence, is so untrue in every syllable.

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That's just a sad, sad statement.

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In fact, listening to what NBC News is reporting now, just in the last 24 hours, confirms everything we suspected, and a report filed on December 2nd at 10 51 am, nbc News reports that President Biden had been considering pardoning his son since June, june of 2024.

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And that bracingly lying about it over and over again was the key part of his plan.

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Biden, age 82, is using his pardon power to ensure Hunter Biden does not spend time in jail as he nears the end of his term in the White House and has no future election to face.

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In recent months, he has said he would not pardon his son or commute his sentence.

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I will not pardon him, joe Biden said in June.

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After a jury found Hunter Biden guilty on three federal gun charges.

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The president had discussed pardoning his son with some of his closest aides, at least since Hunter Biden's conviction in June, said two people with direct knowledge of the discussions about the matter.

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They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son, even though doing so remained on the table.

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White House Press Secretary Corrine Jean-Pierre recently told reporters that Biden's position had not changed.

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We have been asked that question multiple times.

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She said our answer stands, which is no, and in case you missed the key line, I'll say it again of this article.

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They said it was decided at the time that he would publicly say he would not pardon his son, even though doing so remained on the table.

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Astonishing, just frankly astonishing.

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We have to give a tip of the cap to Charles Cook over at National Review for finding this report, for finding this report.

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But the fact that Joe Biden just lied about it and then changed his mind when in fact the plan was to lie about it all the way, going back to June, can you understand the gravity of that?

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That is deeply, deeply menacing.

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That's frankly, deeply, deeply menacing.

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That's frankly, deeply, deeply evil.

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And we would make one personal recommendation, just one Joe, joe Biden, we urge you sincerely, honestly and very quickly.

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You need to call a priest, you need to get yourself to the sacrament of confession.

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You need to really deeply, deeply examine your conscience.

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That statement is unequivocally untrue, beyond a shadow of a doubt.

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And the more that is reported about all of this, the more it just stinks to holy hell.

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It's rotten.

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In fact, it's rotten to the core.

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This is all from the pit of hell.

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Joe, get to confession For your soul.

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Joe, get to confession.

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Nobody believes a Biden and it's never good to be part of a brotherhood of thieves.

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So in today's special Mojo Minute, it's a sad day, it's a sad week, frankly, but we still have over 50 days to go until the most corrupt and most rotten presidential administration in the 20th and 21st century so far is out of power.

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So buckle up.

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The door has been cracked and the stink and the rot and the odor coming from within this White House smells horrible.

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It's rotten, it's bad, bad.

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But just as we started this podcast episode, so we will end this podcast.

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Joe Biden ate lunch this past Friday with his family and with Hunter at a restaurant named the Brotherhood of Thieves.

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We thought that name was most appropriate for his legacy to the country after 50 years and what his family represented a Brotherhood of thieves, a family of thieves.

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We sure hope the history books will be written soon about this sad, sad chapter in American history and hopefully we can get to the bottom of the truth and expose all of this rot in American politics and this most corrupt Biden family.

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We, for one, will be eagerly awaiting to read them, but for now, as always, keep fighting the good fight and, ps, be sure to plug your nose.

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It smells really, really bad near the White House.

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Thank you for joining us.

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We hope you enjoyed this Theory to Action podcast.

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Be sure to check out our show page at teammojoacademycom, where we have everything we discussed in this podcast, as well as other great resources.

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Until next time, keep getting your mojo on.

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