With the text of Hunter Biden’s plea deal now public, it’s no longer possible to deny that the Justice Department’s been bending over backward to protect the Biden family — including President Joe Biden.
“The United States agrees not to criminally prosecute [Hunter] Biden . . . for any federal crimes” related to the case, the deal reads.
It left only the possibility of “prosecution for any future conduct.”
No wonder Hunter and his attorneys were convinced he’d be off the hook for other crimes, such as those related to foreign lobbying — and, perhaps, bribe-taking, influence-peddling or other corruption.
Federal Judge Maryellen Noreika questioned such a “broad,” “nonstandard” agreement, and wondered why both parties wanted her to “rubber stamp it.”
Her questioning forced Special Assistant US Attorney Leo Wise to shift gears on a deal he was intimately knowledgeable of because he had hammered it out over weeks with Hunter’s lawyers.
Stunning Hunter’s lawyer, and the rest of the court, he suddenly claimed the deal allowed only a narrower set of potential Biden crimes to be off limits to prosecutors.
The first son then balked, of course, and his lawyer, Chris Clark, declared the deal “null and void.”
Yet why would Justice include such blanket immunity in the first place?
Hint: It has little to do with protecting Hunter Biden.
And everything to do with protecting his dad.
Think about it: The reason the judge called the deal “nonstandard” — and why Wise couldn’t provide any precedent — is that no normal defendant ever gets such a sweetheart deal.
Yet with further prosecutions for past crimes ruled out, the DOJ and FBI officials needn’t even look for them — allowing them to stay clear of anything that might implicate the prez.
Meanwhile, they pretend there’s nonetheless an “ongoing” investigation — so they can use that as an excuse to avoid questions from Congress.
Obviously, if prosecutors and agents did want to uncover Biden family corruption, they wouldn’t have precluded additional charges.
Heck, Garland would’ve appointed a special counsel long ago, to avoid the blatant conflict of interest.
Now the parties are going back to the drawing board.
But despite enormous evidence — millions of dollars in alleged bribes to Joe and his family, Mafia-like threats and apparent Watergate-level coverups — don’t expect the Biden DOJ to ever launch a serious probe. Not with Joe in office, anyway.
That job must now fall to Congress.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
