PHOTO: Karloutsos and President Biden converse in the front row of a White House East Room event for Greek Independence in 2023.
EDITOR’S NOTE (Nick Stamatakis). “Nobody is above the Law,” the Democrats were pronouncing with fake conviction for the past few years as they prosecuted President Trump and a group of participants in the January 6 episode that should have never been anywhere near jail… Yet, yesterday, Joe Biden, pardoned in a very sweeping fashion his son “for all crimes committed” since a decade ago – in essence, pardoning himself also. Because he was present in meetings with foreign “oligarchs” and he had knowledge. He had also used his power as a VP to achieve the results he wanted… Here is the famous video – admission of his involvement…
Who else was involved in such meetings with Ukrainians? Kalroutsos was… And it is obvious that he never wanted extensive investigations on Hunter Biden because. along with Joe Biden’s liability, his liability would be revealed… And possibly Mike Karloutsos’s also… To refresh your memory, please review the NY Post report below. Karloutsos reportedly attended an infamous April 16, 2015, dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano with then-VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and international business associates from Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan.
The Karloutsos duo is breathing a big sigh of relief. But Ukraine’s military defeat is likely to end Karloutsos’ forty-year career as a State Department agent.
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Biden to Hunter-linked clergyman at Greek independence event: ‘I’m gonna ruin your reputation by talking’
The 80-year-old president made the bizarre remark to Karloutsos, vicar general of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, at a celebration of Greek independence also attended by actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson.
Karloutsos, 77, reportedly attended an infamous April 16, 2015, dinner at DC’s Cafe Milano with then-VP Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and international business associates from Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
The dinner featured Vadym Pozharskyi of Ukrainian gas firm Burisma, which paid Hunter Biden up to $1 million per year to serve on its board as Joe Biden led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy; former Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov and his wife, Yelena Baturina, who sought out property investments with Hunter Biden; and a trio of Kazakhstani business associates.
Pozharskyi emailed Hunter Biden one day after the dinner to thank him for “giving an opportunity to meet your father.”
The note formed the basis of The Post’s first bombshell report in October 2020 on documents from the first son’s abandoned laptop — directly contradicting Joe Biden’s claim that “I have never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.”
Karloutsos got a front-row seat in the White House East Room not far from Hanks.
“It’s great to be here with friends like Father Alex — Father, I’m gonna ruin your reputation by talking,” Biden said.
The president added, jokingly, “And the only reason I ran for president and got elected was so I could award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year.”
“As a matter of fact, Father, I still haven’t figured out, am I the reason I’ve been made an archon? Is that what happened?” Biden went on, possibly referring to an award he received from the church in October 2015.
“I don’t know, but you’ve been a great friend for a long time and your family as well have been great friends of ours,” the president concluded.
Moments later, the president took a seat one chair from Karloutsos, who proceeded to lean over Archbishop Elpidophoros Lambriniadis to have an at-times animated conversation with Biden.
Biden left the room after calling Hanks, whose Greek American wife performed three songs at the event, on stage and praising the “loyalty” of Greeks.
“The one thing about the Greek community I’ve learned over these years — and it’s been 50 years, I hate to admit it, it’s that long — but is loyalty, loyalty, loyalty. And I tell ya, I think my sister and I, my family and I, have returned it. But you’ve been incredibly, incredibly loyal,” Biden said.
“You know, Father, I’m not joking about my affection for the church,” Biden added to Karloutsos.
Hanks, addressing his own attendance, said, “I am not Greek, but I had the good sense to marry one.”
Biden left the East Room without answering The Post’s question about why he met with his family’s foreign business associates.
Karloutsos also did not respond to The Post’s attempt to ask a question about his conversation with Biden.
At the time of The Post’s initial reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop, Biden — who also met with his son’s Chinese and Mexican associates — vaguely denied the report, and social media platforms censored the article for being potential misinformation or the byproduct of hacking.
It’s unclear if Karloutsos has ever publicly commented on the business dinner.
Ahead of the meal, Hunter wrote that the gathering would be “ostensibly” about his role as chairman of the World Food Program USA.
The Washington Post reported in 2021 that “Joe Biden only dropped by briefly to meet with one of the guests, Alex Karloutsos,” according to Rick Leach, chief executive and former president of WFP USA.
However, two other attendees told The Post that Joe Biden sat down and ate — with one guest saying the sitting vice president stayed about 40 minutes and even posed with the Kazakhstani group in a photo that emerged after he won the presidency.
“It was an odd dinner because there was [then-Kazakhstani Prime Minister Karim] Massimov, Luzhkov, and his wife and it was not a big table and then there was somebody there from some food charity making a pitch for support,” a fellow guest told The Post. “I mean, it was a little odd, the whole thing.”
Baturina is one of a dwindling list of Russian oligarchs who have not yet faced US sanctions over the more than year-old Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Another Russian oligarch who sought out US property investments with Hunter Biden, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, also has managed to avoid Biden administration sanctions.
Hunter Biden is under investigation by the US Attorney’s Office in Delaware for possible crimes including tax fraud, illegal foreign lobbying, money laundering, and lying about his drug use on a gun purchase form.
Hunter wrote in communications retrieved from his laptop that he paid as much as “half” of his income to his father.
Today’s pardon of Hunter Biden by his father stinks to high heaven. And its even more egrigious, because Joe lied, when was asked back in June and after the election, if he would pardon his son.
There is no question, that Hunter is a despicable poor excuse of a man. His drug abuse, his use of his father’s position to enrich himself, his selfishness, his pay out of prostitutes, his sexual liaisons with his deceased brother’s wife, are just a few of the stomach churning acts that he has committed.
The fact that he survived the car accident that two of his siblings and his mother lost their lives, is no excuse. Plenty of people go through trauma and still turn out useful members of society. His is anything but. He is a parasite, indulged by a father who had the means of helping him. much more than parents of very little means can help their wayward sons. And he took advantage of his father’s position. For that fact alone, he belongs behind bars.
Joe Biden hopes that Americans would understand a father’s pardon to his son, who reportedly has been sober for almost 6 years. The fact that he has been sober, while good for him, should not have gotten him a reprieve from the law.
The rumors that Joe might have been involved in his son’s “employment” at a Ukrainian company at a salary of millions of dollars. might have some merit, even though not proven. Jow probably thought that after Obama chose Hillary as his successor, he had no chance of becoming president, so he would escape the spotlight of a campaign. Of course, things turn out differentrly and Joe became president.
I would bet that Joe would have pardoned his son, even if he had ran for president and won, or if Harris had prevailed against Trump. He waited till after the elction.
Pardons by presidents is an American institution, wielded by every president. Even to convicted family members. Clinton pardoned his half brother. Obama pardoned over a thousand convicts in 8 years. Trump pardoned his son’s father, whom he appointed as ambassador to France. Plus other convicted criminals.
Biden is not the only one to make sure a family member benefits from access to the powerful position of president or vice president of America. Jared Kushner benefited by his association with Saudi Arabia’s crown Prince to the tune of $2 billion. Ivanka sold her fashion line to China during Trump’s first term.
What Joe and Trump forget, when they say that they were victims of lawfare, that focused on them because of their political position, which would not have happened if they were noral citizens. is that Hunter and Trump personally, also benefgited from their position, which normal citizens do not benefit from. So, their crying of “unfair” is bunk.
You cannot put Biden and Trump on the same level. Trump was one of only four American Presidents that donated his salary to charity. Also Jared and Ivanka did not do anything illegal. She sold a clothes line… Hunter peddled influence and the whole Biden crime family was on the take… Why don’t you mention the “sacred cow”, Obama? Who entered politics with ZERO MONEY and ended up multimillionaire… And then you ask me why I do not post some of your comments… We are trying to be fair here.
Wow…just wow….I mean we knew it was coming, and here we are. What sickens me even more are the rich dem Greeks who parade about the White House and go along with the criminal narrative.
Evil has no forgiveness nor awakening to empathy or regret….
Bunch of slime bags. The say Joe was not the real President. Therefore, how could a fake President pardon his son?
How many died suffering due to the Maidan?
No one with eyes, ears and a functioning brain feels one iota of surprise. The bidens’ lives have been a consistent display of disgusting depravity. No one can honestly say they are surprised now.
As for the self-annointed “CEO of Religion”, he should know full well that a Presidential Pardon from PotatoheadJoe is an easy acquisition, but will have no meaning at his inevitable Judgement Day.