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Tucker Carlson: As in most of the developing world, it's safer to be the president's son than his opponent.

TUCKER CARLSON: This spring, word began to circulate in Washington that the House Oversight Committee under new Chairman Jamie Comer had discovered criminal behavior after reviewing thousands of pages of the Biden family's bank records. Publicly, to the extent they've responded at all, the White House dismissed the investigation as, of course, politically motivated. In any case, irrelevant. Hunter Biden was an adult, so his business dealings had nothing at all to do with his father, in this case, the president of the United States. But in private, everybody understood it wasn't quite that simple.

There are long been overwhelming evidence that Joe and Hunter Biden's financial lives are not separate at all but deeply intertwined. On Hunter Biden's laptop, there is the suggestion that the two of them even at one point shared a bank account. And of course, Hunter Biden wrote himself that he kicked back cash from his foreign business deals to his father. He wrote that bitterly.

So the Oversight Committee's investigation was potentially a disaster for the White House, a scandal, possibly even a prelude to criminal charges. So in order to get ahead of all of that, Joe Biden's handlers did the one thing they could do, they set up an MSNBC interview to preemptively whitewash whatever Jamie Comer might find. Here's the result of that, this aired on May 5:

STEPHANIE RUHLE, MSNBC: Sir, there is something personal that is affecting you. Your son, while there are no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice. How will that impact your presidency?

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: First of all, my son has done nothing wrong. I trust him. I have faith in him. And it impacts my presidency by making me feel proud of him.

TUCKER CARLSON: Okay! Time for the masterclass for free, you can audit it. Here it goes. "Sir," showing appropriate respect says the shill, "There's something personal that's affecting you." Not the wording, "personal." Not of public concern. Nothing law enforcement might be interested in. But personal. A sad family tragedy. That's the framing. And this then, a sentence choreographed to the letter: "Your son, while there are no ties to you, could be charged by your Department of Justice." Got that? While there's no tie to you! So the answer is in fact, in the question. Whatever Hunter Biden goes down for, and we know he is going to be charged because MSNBC said so, but when that happens, that's Hunter's problem. It's got nothing to do with Joe Biden. Rest easy, America.

Five days later, the Oversight Committee released its findings. And they were devastating. "Bank records showed the Biden family, their business associates, and their many companies received over $10 million from foreign nationals and their related companies," the committee wrote. Investigators have "identified payments to Biden family members from foreign companies while Joe Biden served as vice president and after he left public office."

So actually there was something there. It was a scandal. Racketeering, money laundering, and wire fraud. Those are some of the crimes the Biden family seems to have committed, in addition to selling out the United States for cash.

So what would happen to them? Donald Trump had an idea. "They'll hit Hunter with something small to make their strike on me look fair," Trump wrote about two weeks ago. And it turned out those were prescient words.

This morning, Hunter Biden pleaded guilty to pretty much nothing. Biden plead to two misdemeanor tax evasion charges and entered a diversion on a federal gun charge. That's it! As far as Merrick Garland's Justice Department is concerned, Hunter Biden is done. There was no pre-dawn raid covered live simultaneously on CNN. There was no perp walk, no handcuffs, no press conference. Above all, there was no felony. Hunter Biden, who broke federal gun laws, can still carry a gun. It's like it all never happened.

In fact, the Justice Department just baptized Hunter Biden. A lifetime of sins washed away in an instant. It was a secular miracle. Most miraculous of all, Hunter Biden somehow escaped a FARA charge. FARA is the Foreign Agent Registration Act. And it is exactly what its name suggests. Under federal law, if you are acting as an agent of a foreign nation in Washington, you are required to register with our government to let everybody know.

Well, for decades pretty much nobody in Washington did register under FARA, and precisely no one was ever prosecuted for it. no one. But starting several years ago, the Justice Department began sending people to prison for FARA violations. The official explanation was we're cracking down on foreign influence in Washington. And of course, privately, everyone in Washington laughed. They knew that was absurd. In fact, it is the opposite of the truth. Foreign powers have never had more power in Washington. Their agents are everywhere, in every federal agency and throughout business, down to and including executive positions at various social media companies.

The Biden administration knows all of this and it is not a problem. In fact, it is their policy. From the administration's perspective, the concerns and demands of the Chinese government, or particularly the Ukrainian government, are far more important than the needs of American voters. "We're cracking down on foreign influence." Please.

The point, the only point of enforcing FARA after decades of ignoring it it to harass and imprison high-profile political opponents. Trump donor Elliot Broidy plead to a FARa violation a few years ago. So did Trump campaign manager, famously Paul Manafort, he went to prison. Last year, the DOJ went after Trump confidant Steve Wynn under FARA, but in the end, the Biden administration overreached so comically that the whole thing was thrown out by a judge, but they tried.

So as long as they're trying, if it was a fair system, Hunter Biden would be first on the list of those next to be charged with a FARA violation, in fact, many of them. Hunter Biden was a foreign agent, he never registered as one. But for years, that's exactly what he was. He sold access to his father and other lawmakers to the Chinese and the Ukrainians and countries throughout the world. There's no debate about that, the FBI has known about it for years, and they've had possession of Hunter Biden's laptop. But they didn't charge hm for it today, they never will. Why?

Well, you know the answer. Hunter Biden has good genes.

A more interesting question, a question the feds will never consider is what does Hunter Biden do for a living now. This is a man with no obvious job, and of course, zero skills. He spent his mid-life smoking crack. Somehow he's managed to live pretty well despite rising inflation. He's been living in big houses in the costliest residential neighborhoods in the world. He's been paying his stripper baby mama $20,000 a month in child support. And he has retained a team of the most expensive lawyers in the country who spend quite a bit of time sending threatening letters to anyone who asks questions about how they're being paid. We can confirm that first hand.

So again, what does Hunter Biden do for work? That's a fair question. Tonight we have the answer. For years, Hunter Biden was an influence peddler. Now Hunter Biden is a self-actualizer. He self-actualizes for a living. He gets in touch with himself, his feelings, and he follows his muse. Here he is explaining his new vocation in a 2019 ABC News interview... "His refuge. Far from the paparazzi's lens." In other words, we're not the paparazzi, we're ABC News. What's the goal of this, your refuge? "There's no goal," he says, grinning with those fake teeth. "It just keeps me sane."

But actually, there was a goal. And if you didn't know what a virtuous person Hunter Biden was, you might think it looked a lot like money laundering. Two years after that interview, Hunter Biden was selling prints of his art. To be clear, just the prints. Not the "art" itself. But effectively photocopies of it for $75,000 a pop. Apparently, Hunter Biden moved five of these repros in just days. That's $375,000 in less than a week for singing copies of your fake art. As for the paintings themselves, childish self-indulgent blots, they sold for half a million dollars a piece.

So the question is who bought them and why? It would be interesting to know. There's a story there for sure. but of course, we have no right to know who. There's no public policy implication. It's not like Hunter Biden's finances have anything to do with his father's finances. Meanwhile, once his father did become president, corporate publisher Simon and Schuster lined up as well to pay Hunter Biden's bills. According to news reports, Simon and Schuster paid Hunter Biden for his highly selective account of his wholly unaccomplished life. And then the publisher lined up brainless celebrity endorsers like Dave Eggers and Stephen King to promote it. King, who apparently will say anything if it helps the party, called Hunter Biden's silyl manuscript a "harrowing and compulsively readable memoir." And then Stephen King described Hunter Biden himself as "beautiful." Needless to say, the book sold miserably. But Hunter Biden got to keep the millions, and that was the point. And so on. This kind of thing apparently happened a lot.

There seems to be a story here, and we think it is probably worth learning a lot more about it and bringing it to you. In the coming weeks, we will.

In the meantime though, the question is what can we learn from Hunter Biden's plea deal today? First off, the obvious, for the children of the people in charge, there are no penalties there are only upsides. They're princelings, they can do what they want. You are not, therefore you can't. So don't get any ideas about cheating on your taxes or violating federal gun laws unless you want to celebrate next year's Father's Day through the glass in the visitors' room. The rules definitely apply to you, including rules you don't yet know exist.

But there is also a deeper lesson here, a more disturbing one. What we're watching through Hunter Biden's life and through the Biden administration, now entering its third year, is the total inversion of virtue. What was once considered admirable is now derided as stupid, if not racist. That would include achievement, intelligence, honesty, self-control, and humility. Those are features of the old America, those are yesterday's virtues. They are gone. In their place, all that we once considered contemptible and repulsive, we're told to worship that now.

Here's a small example, but we think a revealing one. In addition to his many other sins, Joe Biden has hired what has to be the single dumbest, nastiest, most dishonest, most ridiculous person he could possibly find for the very public position of White House press secretary. There's a point to it, of course, it is a humiliation exercise, it was designed to degrade the country and dispirit the rest of us. "That's the White House press secretary?" "Shut up!"

But here's the thing, the White House press secretary herself has no idea why she's in the job. She thinks she's amazing. Here she is in a clip we just saw:

KARINE JEAN-PIERRE: A year in this role there's been a couple of things that has made me incredibly proud, many things that have made me incredibly proud to be at that podium during this historic moment, again this is a historic administration, I am a historic figure, and I certainly walk in history every day.

TUCKER CARLSON: "I'm a historic figure." Imagine saying that! "I'm a historic figure."

But she does, and she says it in a burst of sincere self-congratulation, marked by her signature bad grammar. Illiterate but proud!

Of course, she's proud, Karine Jean-Pierre is now a historic figure, just like Hunter Biden is now an important artist.

It makes you feel stupid for going to work.

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