{"id":1952240,"date":"2023-06-20T18:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T22:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-tale-of-two-systems\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T18:03:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T22:03:36","slug":"a-tale-of-two-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-tale-of-two-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Systems, Two Stories."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">8<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-tale-of-two-systems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>The Presidential Son Gets Off with a Slap on the Wrist<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Joe and Hunter Biden in the president&#8217;s 1967 Corvette \/ Twitter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;First of all, my son has done nothing wrong,&#8221; President Joe Biden told MSNBC last month. It was but one of a litany of such statements from Biden, who has behaved as if any question from the press about his son\u2019s criminal activity\u2014and there haven\u2019t been many\u2014is an affront, an indignity, and an insult to the office.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Well, he lied.<\/p>\n<p>The younger Biden owed more than $1 million in taxes over several years, and over $200,000 for the years in which he struck the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fiat-chrysler-to-pay-30m-settlement-linked-to-racketeering-scandal\/\" title=\"Fiat Chrysler to pay M settlement linked to racketeering scandal\">plea deal<\/a>. Even then, his celebrity lawyer pal didn&#8217;t <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/hunter-bidens-hollywood-attorney-now-controls-his-stake-in-chinese-private-equity-firm\/\">fork over the money<\/a> to the federal government on his behalf until the Department of Justice started investigating him. He also copped to owning a gun while he was coked up, and lying about it when he bought the firearm in 2018. That\u2019s a felony, but Hunter is getting off with a slap on the wri\u2026uh, probation and enrollment in a &#8220;diversion program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, very much including Biden, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=epA-z6H6WAo&#038;ab_channel=AssociatedPress\">love to talk about<\/a> the two systems of justice in this country: one for the rich and well-connected, the other for racial minorities and the poor. When it came to his son, apart from lying to the American people, Biden\u2019s statements about Hunter Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-tale-of-two-systems\/\" title=\"Two Systems, Two Stories.\">innocence constituted presidential interference<\/a> with the Justice Department probe.<\/p>\n<p>So we\u2019ll wait for the Left to cry foul over this and the fact that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/secret-service-says-years-of-hunter-biden-emails-are-missing-his-laptop-says-otherwise\/\" title=\"Secret Service Says Years of Hunter Biden Emails Are Missing \u2013 His Laptop Says Otherwise\">presidential son<\/a> got off with a slap on the wrist for crimes that would have landed others behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The rank bullshit that has emanated from the White House on related issues is secondary but not unimportant. It wasn\u2019t even a year ago that Biden signed the inaptly named Inflation Reduction Act into law. In the weeks beforehand, we heard endless jawboning from administration officials about why the additional $80 billion the law is now funneling to the IRS, much of it for increased enforcement, was necessary to hold the powerful to account.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/winred.tomcotton.com\/tom-cotton\/defend-scotus-ads-beacon?utm_source=rc&#038;utm_medium=beaconads&#038;utm_campaign=2023maybeaconscotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/10\/11\/business\/irs-bank-accounts.html\">for one<\/a>, pointed to &#8220;typically very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/authorities-searching-for-google-co-founder-in-jeffrey-epstein-case\/\" title=\"Authorities Searching for Google Co-founder in Jeffrey Epstein Case\">high-net worth<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-we-really-need-to-do-to-make-college-affordable\/\" title=\"What We Really Need To Do To Make College Affordable\">high-income individuals<\/a> and businesses that have opaque sources of income that are not paying the taxes that are due.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message sent by the Biden administration on Tuesday was clear: enforcement and prison for thee \u2013 but not in a million years for our president\u2019s drug-addled, tax cheat son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president&#8217;s son, Hunter Biden, receives a lenient punishment while riding in the president&#8217;s 1967 Corvette. President Joe Biden defended his son, stating that he has not committed any wrongdoing. Biden has consistently made similar statements, displaying a dismissive attitude towards the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":1952241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[5567,9674],"class_list":["post-1952240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-stories","tag-systems"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}