UNITED STATES CODE: Joe Biden is permanently disqualified from holding any public office in the U.S. Federal Government
Joe Biden is prohibited from holding public office in the US government—Here’s why!
By his own admission, then Vice President Joe Biden
used upwards of $1 billion of US government loan
guarantees in a bribery coercion scheme to threaten
the Ukraine president to immediately terminate the
Prosecutor General who was investigating the corrupt
practices of Burisma Holdings, as well as the involve-
ment of board director Hunter Biden. This criminal
act constitutes a federal felony crime and disqualifies
Biden from holding public office.
All the hard evidence and applicable laws follow in this straightforward legal analysis.
First, here’s Biden’s unequivocal admission of his crime on video:
https://youtu.be/rnIPw_Who7E
Federal Corrupt Practices Act
Now, here is the relevant section from the FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT, that is codified as United States Federal Law, which strictly “prohibits U.S. citizens and entities from bribing foreign government officials to benefit their business interests”.
15 U.S. Code § 78dd–1 – Prohibited foreign trade practices by issuers
The applicable section of the U.S. Code can be found in 15 U.S. Code § 78dd–1 as follows:
U.S. Department of Justice Guidance
Furthermore, the U.S. Department of Justice has published “An Overview” which spells out that what VP Joe Biden did by threatening to withhold loan guarantees to the Ukraine was in blatant violation of U.S. Federal Law.
The Fraud Section of the Criminal Division of the DoJ makes it clear what constitutes a violation of the FOREIGN CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT as follows.
Source: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-practices-act#:~:text=The%20Foreign%20Corrupt%20Practices%20Act,in%20obtaining
%20or%20retaining%20business.
Code of Federal Regulations
Next, there is the pertinent section of Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR) which explicitly states that no employee of the U.S. Federal Government should use their public office for private gain. The following excerpt was taken from: 5 CFR § 2635.702 – Use of public office for private gain.
(a) Inducement or coercion of benefits. An employee shall not use or permit the use of his Government position or title or any authority associated with his public office in a manner that is intended to coerce or induce another person, including a subordinate, to provide any benefit, financial or otherwise, to himself or to friends, relatives, or persons with whom the employee is affiliated in a nongovernmental capacity.
Here’s a screenshot of the same CFR regulation that is directly applicable to Joe Biden’s official misconduct while VPOTUS and acting on behalf of his son Hunter Biden in his official capacity as member of the Board of Directors of Burisma Holding Limited, a Ukrainian Company.
Source: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/5/2635.702
18 U.S.C. § 201: Bribery of public officials and witnesses
Then there is the federal statute codified by the U.S. Code concerning the “Bribery of public officials and witnesses”. Here again Vice President Biden clearly acted in contravention of both 18 U.S.C. § 201(b)(1) as to the giver, and § 201(b)(2) as to the recipient, in the crime of bribery of a pubic official.
18 U.S.C. § 201 proscribes bribery and the acceptance of certain gratuities. The U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Sun-Diamond Growers of California, 526 U.S. 398, 404-405 (1999), describes the two crimes as follows:
“The first crime, described in § 201(b)(1) as to the giver, and § 201(b)(2) as to the recipient, is bribery, which requires a showing that something of value was corruptly given, offered, or promised to a public official (as to the giver) or corruptly demanded, sought, received, accepted, or agreed to be received or accepted by a public official (as to the recipient) with intent, inter alia, ‘to influence any official act’ (giver) or in return for ‘being influenced in the performance of any official act’ (recipient). The second crime, defined in § 201(c)(1)(A) as to the giver, and § 201(c)(1)(B) as to the recipient, is illegal gratuity, which requires a showing that something of value was given, offered, or promised to a public official (as to the giver), or demanded, sought, received, accepted, or agreed to be received or accepted by a public official (as to the recipient), ‘for or because of any official act performed or to be performed by such public official.’
The distinguishing feature of each crime is its intent element. Bribery requires intent ‘to influence’ an official act or ‘to be influenced’ in an official act, while illegal gratuity requires only that the gratuity be given or accepted ‘for or because of’ an official act. In other words, for bribery there must be a quid pro quo a specific intent to give or receive something of value in exchange for an official act. An illegal gratuity, on the other hand, may constitute merely a reward for some future act that the public official will take (and may already have determined to take), or for a past act that he has already taken.”
The U.S. Office of Government Ethics does not render opinions on 18 U.S.C. § 201, but may provide links to relevant information about the topic, when appropriate.
The screenshot posted below was taken from: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-fraud/foreign-corrupt-practices-act
Concealment of Vice President Joe Biden’s senatorial records
There’s one more serious transgression of federal law that Joe Biden is guilty of: the deliberate concealment of his senatorial records. Those records are currently housed at the University of Delaware and Biden himself can permit their release.
In this particular regard, Biden’s refusal to release those public records is a brazen violation of 18 U.S. Code § 2071 which concerns the “Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally” of government records, documents, files, etc. The letter of the law can be read in the following screen capture taken from the Cornell Law School website. The disqualification clause is highlighted in blue.
KEY POINT: Joe Biden isn’t the first Democrat POTUS candidate to be disqualified from holding public office because of concealment or destruction of government records. Hillary Clinton was also prohibited (according to the law of the land) from running for President prior the 2016 election because of the her intentional removal and destruction of official government email correspondence. See: Sometimes the hard truth appears in the funniest places … like a Law Library.
Conclusion
Joe Biden, acting in his official capacity of Vice President of the United States of America, bribed the Ukraine government in order to compel President Petro Poroshenko to fire the General Prosecutor. This criminal act was carried out with the explicit intent to terminate the ongoing criminal investigation of Burisma Holdings Limited, as well as to stop the investigation and avert the prosecution of his son—Board Director Hunter Biden.
Various sections of the U.S. Code describe this official behavior as criminal and, therefore, subject to prosecution as well as disqualification to hold public office in the US government. Given the extreme seriousness of Biden’s admitted crime and flagrant breach of the public trust, the Democrat POTUS nominee is effectively barred from running for any public office until his criminal case is properly prosecuted and adjudicated. Moreover, Biden’s premeditated concealment of his senatorial records further adds to this open-and-shut case which necessitates his permanent prohibition to hold public office.
C A S E C L O S E D !
State of the Nation
August 15, 2020
Video evidence of Joe Biden’s crime
Biden’s own admission of bribing the Ukraine government on behalf of his son (Video)