BILLY CARTER WAS NO HUNTER BIDEN
What A Difference Four Decades Make: Deep State Pursued Billy, Covers For Hunter
This American has a vague memory of Billy Carter, Jimmy’s much younger brother; but I did not recall that he was under federal investigations while Jimmy was in the White House until I began my research. The investigations centered around “peanuts” compared to Hunter Biden’s millions of dollars of grift money from foreign entities, money laundering, illegal purchase of a handgun, repeated use of prostitutes, years of illegal drug consumption, to name just a few. The Deep State was smaller & had less power in the 1970s because the massive transfer of wealth from workers & earners to Washington DC had only begun in 1969 with LBJ’s massive tax increases. The Deep State during Jimmy’s tenure was a babe compared to the present Deep State.
WILLIAM ALTON CARTER, III (1937-1988)*
President James E. Carter, Jr’s brother embarrassed him from time to time during this presidency; but, he wasn’t the bag man for his brother. Billy prided himself on “being his own man.” William Alton Carter, III was a unique individual. He was well-informed, a reader and had a more sophisticated intellect than he usually showed to the public. His mother, Lillian, said he was ''the smartest'' of her seven children.
Known as “Billy,” he was the gregarious gas station proprietor and farmer who vaulted to national celebrity when his older brother ran for and became president (1/20/1977 to 1/20/81). Back in the “good ole days” when the Rule of Law meant that even relatives of a president could not break the law with impunity, he became the subject of repeated investigations by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal government agencies.
The most highly publicized investigation was a federal inquiry into his ties to Libya, who provided what Billy called a $220,000 loan. Billy, who visited Libya in 1978 and 1979, had a brokerage arrangement with an American company that was seeking an allotment of Libyan oil. At the time, Libya was trying to obtain American transport planes. Billy was a registered agent for the Libyan government, but he insisted that he never sought to intercede on its behalf with his brother nor with anyone else in Washington DC.
Billy visited Libya twice, and the American taxpayers did not pay for his trips. How many times did Hunter fly on Air Force Two to Ukraine, China, Romania, Russia? How much grift money did he bring back for the Biden Crime Family? Poor Billy: A mere $220,000 loan netted him a Senate investigation. The FBI & IRS have known about Hunter’s millions & millions for at least four years and they have not yet investigated.
PRESIDENT CARTER WAS “NEGLIGENT”
A Senate committee ultimately found no evidence that Billy had influenced American policy. But it said in its report, a month before the 1980 Presidential election, that President Carter had been “negligent” in not dissociating himself from Billy's unorthodox activities.
''I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it,'' Billy Carter told the Senate investigators earlier. ''I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a President's brother should adopt. I considered myself to be a private individual who had not been elected to public office and resented the attention of different government agencies that I began to hear from almost as soon as Jimmy was sworn in.''
NOTE: Billy Carter was INVESTIGATED. Hunter Biden is immune from investigation despite massive evidence that he has broken many and varied state and federal laws. Joe Biden is not “negligent.” He openly cheers on his son. What a difference four decades make, after all, both Jimmy & Joe are Democrats.
“I AM MY OWN MAN”
Billy’s more conventional business ventures were mostly unsuccessful, including the short-lived Billy Beer that he had no hand in brewing but that he promoted with gusto. These businesses could not be managed properly while in a blind trust, Billy later maintained, and his hometown of Plains, Georgia was so besieged by tourists that ''it became impossible to carry on normal business in the office.''
Billy, who often drank beer for breakfast, frequently joked about his reputation for enjoying alcoholic beverages and about his offbeat personality. With a sister who was a faith healer and a brother who thought he could become President, Billy once observed, he must be the only ''sane'' member of the family.
The IRS claimed that Billy had not properly reported his income from speaking engagements and personal appearances, which reportedly brought him more than $100,000 a year. The agency refused to accept his complaint that his records had been seized for use in various federal investigations and were therefore unavailable to him. Has Hunter declared and paid taxes on the millions he received from oversea? Has Joe?
In 1981, financially beleaguered, Billy was forced to sell much of his Plains property, including his gas station. The money went to pay off $70,000 in federal tax arrears and about $30,000 due to local bankers who had threatened to foreclose on his home.
''They tried to make an example of me, to embarrass me,'' Billy said of the IRS. ''But nothing embarrasses me.'' Asked later if Billy embarrassed him, Jimmy Carter said quietly, ''I love him.'' Billy, who was a dozen years younger than Jimmy, once said, ''I love my brother, I love my country, and I am my own man.'' The IRS covers for Hunter to protect Joe. Billy didn’t enjoy such nepotism.
Hunter probably identifies with Billy. Nothing embarrasses Hunter, either.
*Billy Carter, his sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton (1929-1983), his sister, Gloria Carter Spann (1926-1990) and his father, James Earl Carter, Sr (1894 -1953), all died of pancreatic cancer.