{"id":3711,"date":"2023-06-22T05:04:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T05:04:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2023-06-22T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T11:58:33","slug":"wisconsin-u-s-senator-ron-johnson-on-hunter-biden-plea-deals-this-stinks-to-high-heaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3711","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin U.S. Senator Ron Johnson on Hunter Biden Plea Deals: \u2018This Stinks to High Heaven\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/wisconsindailystar.com\/news\/wisconsin-u-s-senator-ron-johnson-on-hunter-biden-plea-deals-this-stinks-to-high-heaven\/mkittle\/2023\/06\/22\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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U.S. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) joined a chorus of Republicans blasting plea deals that would keep President Joe Biden\u2019s ne\u2019er-do-well son out of prison.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell first of all, this stinks to high heaven. It certainly proves we do not have equal application of justice under the law,\u201d Johnson said<\/a> this week on Fox News\u2019 Jesse Waters Prime Time.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnson, who has for years been investigating allegations of corruption surrounding President Joe Biden and his family, said he has long been concerned that the Biden Department of Justice would enter into a plea deal, delivering lesser charges and no prison time for Hunter Biden. The bigger concern, the senator said, is that there will be a move to seal all of the records surrounding the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a great way to sweep Chuck Grassley\u2019s whistleblower, talking about a $10 million bribery scheme under the rug [by] just saying, \u2018Oh, yeah, we looked into it. There\u2019s nothing to it,\u2019\u201d he told Waters.<\/p>\n

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A sham investigation within our multi-tiered justice system produces the predictable result: Hunter gets off with a light slap on the wrist, and the public will not learn the truth.https:\/\/t.co\/F7SEIN8SFB<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Senator Ron Johnson (@SenRonJohnson) June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This week, the younger Biden and his attorneys said they reached an agreement in which U.S. Attorney David Weiss would recommend probation on a charge that Hunter Biden failed to pay more than $200,000 in income taxes. He also would avoid prison time on a charge of lying about being a drug user while possessing a gun, \u201csubject to a pretrial diversion agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hunter Biden had faced a maximum of 12 years in prison<\/a> on the charges.<\/p>\n

Allegations of a political pay-to-play scheme surround the president. A house investigation is looking into claims that an executive with Ukraine natural gas provider Burisma Holdings paid Joe Biden $5 million when he was vice president. Hunter Biden was paid handsomely for serving on the Burisma board, allegedly for access to his powerful father.<\/p>\n

U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) earlier this month announced a \u201chighly credible\u201d FBI source had 17 audio recordings of Hunter and Joe Biden talking about the payments to the vice president at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Burisma executive explained to the confidential source that the company had to \u201cpay the Bidens\u201d because Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin was investigating Burisma, and explained how difficult it would be to enter the U.S. market in the midst of that investigation,\u201d Fox News\u00a0reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Johnson said House Republicans need to keep pressing for congressional oversight. He and Grassley can only do so much in a Democrat-controlled Senate, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just need to keep making the case and start pointing out all the corruption of the Biden family,\u201d the Wisconsin senator said. \u201cThere is so much that should have been investigated, but we have whistleblowers who\u2019ve said that Attorney Weiss didn\u2019t have the resources to do a proper investigation and, of course, we have the whistleblower from the IRS saying that he was pulled off the case in an unprecedented fashion with the rest of his team. There is so much here that is just disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ohio entrepreneur and GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy earlier this week called the plea deals \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a feigned retreat and reveals they\u2019re even more scared than ever of scrutiny for the real crimes,\u201d Ramaswamy said<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Many of the Republican presidential candidates shared the same sentiment, including former President Donald Trump, who faces 37 felony counts and, effectively, life in prison, in a federal indictment related to his alleged mishandling of classified documents. The indictment was filed by Special Counsel Jack Smith, appointed by Biden\u2019s Attorney General, Merrick Garland.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday proves that there is a clear two-tiered system of justice\u2014one for the Democrats and one against President Trump,\u201d Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement<\/a> to The Dispatch<\/em>. \u201cAs President Trump predicted earlier this month, Hunter was given a sweetheart deal that sweeps his crimes under the rug in a blatant attempt to interfere with the 2024 election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democratic Party officials labeled the criticisms as a \u201cminor political distraction,\u201d according to the Associated Press<\/em>. And so-called mainstream media outlets were quickly lurching to the Bidens\u2019\u00a0defense, demanding that the original felony charges against Hunter are \u201crarely\u00a0prosecuted.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Veteran Democrat strategist Stephanie Cutter told AP that Hunter Biden\u2019s prosecution \u201cis not on most Americans\u2019 radar.\u201d She insisted that Hunter Biden pleading guilty to the reduced charges against him to avoid prison time \u201cshows that no one is above the law and what taking responsibility looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a sadly laughable assertion to those who see a politically weaponized justice system that goes easy on the powerfully connected.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooks like Hunter received a sweetheart deal and is not facing any charges on the massive corruption allegations,\u201d Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Trump\u2019s nearest rival for the GOP presidential nomination, wrote in a tweet this week. \u201cIf Hunter was not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Looks like Hunter received a sweetheart deal and is not facing any charges on the massive corruption allegations. If Hunter was not connected to the elite DC class he would have been put in jail a long time ago. pic.twitter.com\/tZcZOY1uST<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
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