by Lew Rockwell, Lew Rockwell:
The unusually extensive “pardon” by lame-duck “President” Biden has been much in the news lately, but the pardon is not the main issue we should be interested in. The real issue is that the Bidens, both father and son, are evil. Hunter’s Biden’s “lost” laptop—which 501 “security professionals” falsely claimed was a Russian fake —reveals warmongering brazen in its duplicity.
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Concerning the pardon, only this need be said. Of course no one should be prosecuted for tax “evasion.” You are entitled to all your income, as the great Murray Rothbard has taught us. But there is nothing special about being the president’s son. Everybody convicted of tax evasion should be pardoned and nobody should be prosecuted for it. Even better, we should abolish the IRS. the CIA, and the NSA.
Before he issued the pardon, “President” Biden said he wasn’t going to do it. He said he wasn’t going to interfere in the judicial process. Then he did just that. Had he issued the pardon, as he intended to do all along, before the election, this might have cost the Democrats votes.
A much more significant attempt to influence an election occurred in the 2020 race between Biden and Trump. A laptop turned up in a computer shop in Delaware. A legally blind man, John Paul MacIsaac, who owned the shop, said that the laptop had been left by a man who said he was Hunter Biden. Biden claimed that he didn’t remember losing a laptop: “During an April 2021 interview with CBS correspondent Tracy Smith, when asked if the laptop was his, Hunter Biden replied that he did not know and did not remember dropping off a laptop in Delaware for repairs, adding: ‘There could be a laptop out there that was stolen from me. It could be that I was hacked. It could be that it was Russian intelligence.’”
After a story based on emails from the laptop was published in The New York Post, 51 “security professionals” falsely claimed that the Russians had hacked the laptop and inserted fake emails into it: “On October 19, 2020, a group of 51 former senior intelligence officials, who had served in the Trump administration and those of the three previous presidents, released an open letter stating that the release of the alleged emails “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation”, adding:
“We want to emphasize that we do not know if the emails, provided to the New York Post by President Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, are genuine or not and that we do not have evidence of Russian involvement—just that our experience makes us deeply suspicious that the Russian government played a significant role in this case.”
After a story based on the leaks was published in the Post, the Biden administration and the FBI leaned on social networks and news media to suppress it until after the election. “In October 2020, both Twitter and Facebook implemented measures on their platforms to prevent sharing of the New York Post article. Twitter first deprecated the story (prevented its algorithm from highlighting it due to its popularity) but eventually banned links to the story from being posted. It did so according to its Hacked Materials Policy and Facebook per a policy that ‘in many countries, including in the US, if we have signals that a piece of content is false, we temporarily reduce its distribution pending review by a third-party fact-checker’ Facebook’s decision had been informed by an FBI warning to watch for disinformation spread by foreign actors. Twitter briefly locked Trump’s presidential campaign Twitter account for sharing a controversial Hunter Biden video earlier on October 15.”
