All you need for an IRS criminal investigation is enough powerful people to say you are crooked, with enough pressure the IRS will look into anyone with such info.
So I think it is likely this 'investigation' on the whole was started less on facts (at the time, who knows what will show up) is a 'pre-emptive' strike over the next
Justice Department and Attorney General under the Biden Administration (even with no interference from the Biden Administration all the different state cases and
past the past losses like the Trump University and the Trump Charity Settlements and convictions..would have 'toggled' this anyway. My own 'guess' is there is
much less evidence for an IRS investigation on Biden's son or this IRS investigation would likely have been done all throughout the 2020 Presidential election season.
Thus now the China angle and the IRS investigating, in that the Ukraine dealings by Biden's son came to no crimes. IF there is something to on then the Justice
Department and the AG will also press charges if needed on Biden's son, once the new Justice Department inherits this on-going investigation. However, that is
in no way gonna stop the many investigations of the Trump family and Trump Corporation. A pardon is there only hope on 'federal charges alone" ..a pardon does
not to stop or limit state crimes. Also in a pardon, you have admitted guilt. For years, Gerald Ford kept to this view, that a pardon meant you were guilty of the
the crime you were pardoned of. If he is correct, Ford used to carry a Supreme Court decision around in his wallet on these kinds of questions, that Nixon got off the hook
on guilt. Ford disagreed and said a pardon said he was guilty. I quote below:
After Ford left the White House in 1977, he privately justified his pardon of Nixon by carrying in his wallet a portion of the text of
Burdick v. United States, a 1915 U.S. Supreme Court decision that stated that a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and that i
ts acceptance carries a confession of guilt."
So aside from Biden's son (who if guilty would be very unlikely to get a pardon from his father, unlike the Trump children). The US House, for example, could,
after the pardon of Trump or anybody from Roger Stone to Flynn to Trump himself...ask to testify on penalty of 'contempt of Congress' in hearings to get to
the bottom of all the Trump Administration's crimes anyway. In that you are pardoned, you are free and clear on being convicted on whatever such a hearing
can find out. Guilt or Innocence wise. BUT...by taking a pardon, you have 'waived' your right to self-incrimination in that you have already pleaded guilty by
taking the pardon. Thus you'd have to tell the whole truth and nothing but no matter the question or you could be held for contempt of Congress on lying
to congress and not being forthcoming. Also again, there are the state investigations that could then use this evidence of guilt from the congress testimony
to go after whomever with those new facts as well. So we could be in for an interesting year. The pardons could further taint Trump's legacy and further
make deals with various states along with congressional testimony to get out from under all. Thus, from state investigations and state conviction point
of view it is still likely (unless deals are made before with state AG's before congressional subpoena testimony) most pardoned people could still end up
in prison. This is what is really keeping Trump up at night. A pardon can stop federal convictions, but the mere testimony with no self-incrimination and
Congressional testimony and contempt of Congress could lead to even more charges with such facts at the state level, in that the pardon never applied.
Fun times indeed in 2021. Future Historians are gonna have a 'field' day with the Trump Administration from every angle, from office worker to AG to
relatives to everybody. So again, I doubt the Biden investigation will rise to the circus-like aspects of the above Trump Administration folk's problems.
It is a sad day in America when without jest when Russian media offered Trump sanctuary today!
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-state-media-trump-get-asylum-dodge-prosecutions-2020-12 So Trump and his children and all his cronies will be well into the news for crimes all through 2021. Fun! Fun!
Brad
