Does the Left Really Want a Land of Lawfare?
Republicans are debating whether for the sake of the country to play the adult role, and take the high road, eschewing tit-for-tat lawfare. Or should they
reciprocate in kind to restore deterrence and remind the Left to stop it, given what they do to others even more seriously could be done to them?
If the latter choice, what might be the areas of such pushback should the Republican capture the White House and Congress in 2025?
Election Interference. Biden’s two top national security officials Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan both acted either unethically or illegally in the respective 2016 and 2020 campaigns. Sullivan, Hillary Clinton’s chief foreign policy advisor, helped to push in conspiratorial fashion the false story within government circles and the media that a Russian Alfa bank was covertly “communicating” with the Trump campaign—a lie that helped fuel the entire “Russian collusion” election interference caper.
Blinken, a 2020 Biden campaign official, cooked up the plan to round up 51 “former intelligence officials” to falsely discredit recent accounts about Hunter Biden’s incriminating laptop by preposterously claiming it was likely “Russian disinformation.”
Blinken called up former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell to hatch the farce, with the intent of providing candidate Biden with some cover in his planned denials of the truth in the upcoming debate with Trump and during the last weeks of the campaign. To paraphrase Alvin Bragg, such deception by intent prevented American voters from making a fully informed decision in the 2020 Election.
Phone-call Impeachment. Donald Trump was impeached over a phone call to Ukrainian President Zelensky on grounds he temporarily put a hold on congressionally designated military aid to Kyiv, until the Ukrainians could confirm they were no longer supplying funds to the Biden family. In that regard, Joe Biden as Vice President had bragged publicly that he had ensured the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor— on the trail of the Biden family’s corrupt profiteering with Burisma—by threatening to cancel congressionally approved military aid to Ukraine.
But recently Joe Biden “paused” 3,500 bomb deliveries to Israel,as well as other munitions. The aid was congressionally approved. And Biden acted largely because in this 2024 election year, Arab- and Muslim-voters in the key swing state of Michigan had threatened to sit out the election unless Biden stopped the Israel military response to Hamas’s mass murdering.
Biden’s political leveraging was a much more flagrant prompt for impeachment, under the new Democrat rules. Israel was a far closer ally than was Ukraine, and, unlike Biden, Trump had legitimate national concerns to want the Bidens to stop their profiteering and grifting with Ukraine.
"Insurrection". Donald Trump is being investigated by prosecutor Smith for supposedly stirring up violence on January 6 in insurrectionary fashion to upend the prior election, even though he had advised demonstrators: “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Contrast the calls of Kamala Harris in June 2020, after violent protestors in the nation’s capital had sought to storm the White House grounds and had torched an iconic Washington church. Some 400 were arrested for their violent acts.
The soon-to-be nominated Vice-Presidential candidate Harris not long after issued a ringing endorsement of the ongoing protests, which could only by any fair measure be termed violent and dangerous.
Fact checkers, of course, scurried to contextualize Harris’s incendiary calls for more of the same June sort of protesting. But she made no distinction in her threats between peaceful and what was then normalized violent demonstrations in Washington DC. Indeed, on June 17, 2020, Harris foolishly appeared on CBS and cheered on the civil unrest:
“But they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop. They’re not. This is a movement. I’m telling you. They’re not going to stop, and everyone, beware. Because they’re not going to stop. They’re not going to stop before election day in November, and they are not going to stop after election day. And everyone should take note of that on both levels. That they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.” (emphases added)
“Beware”? What did she mean by “They’re not going to stop before election day in November”? Election-day interference?
Collate Harris’s threats with Trump’s advice to march over to the Capitol and then decide whether charges of promoting insurrectionary violence to influence an election were equally leveled—especially when comparing the 35 or so killed, 14,000 arrested, $2 billion in damage, and some 1,500 police officers during the summer 2020 rioting.
In March 2020, two Supreme Court justices were threatened by name by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY). He screamed at them at the very door of the court while in session, and at the head of a shouting mob of protestors:
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
“Hit you”? “Pay the price”? Physical threats for “awful decisions”?
Note in the months following Schumer’s threats, mobs showed up at the homes of the justices, including a would-be assassin. Should not Jack Smith also be investigating past threats made by the now current Vice President and Senate Majority Leader that respectively helped incite violence, and later actionable threats to Supreme Court justices? A final reminder that in 2017-20 a number of prominent former Obama officials, retired military officers, and celebrities published articles and op-eds either calling for a military coup, or the premature, pre-election removal of a president, or slandered their commander in chief, or in the case of celebrities, talked openly of blowing Trump up, shooting him, beheading him, or stabbing him.
All were legally actionable.
Campaign finance violations: Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign along with the Democratic National Committee paid out $113,000 in fines after a Federal Election Commission investigation found her guilty of trying to hide expenditures that birthed the Steele dossier hit piece that had a profound effect on the 2016 election. In addition, Clinton violated national security statutes by using a private server to transmit classified information, and subsequently destroyed emails and devices under government subpoena. She illegally hired a foreign national to work on a presidential campaign.
Note as well that President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign paid out a $375,000 fine—but mysteriously only five years later in 2013—after a slow-coach Federal Election Commission finally found Obama had serially violated campaign laws. Obama’s improper funding-raising totals far exceeded the dollar amounts that Donald Trump was tried and convicted for.
Sexual Assault. One purpose of Alvin Bragg’s many political agendas was to put Stormy Daniels on the stand to offer lurid sexual testimony to damage the Trump candidacy.
But unlike Daniels’ admissions that her supposed tryst was consensual, Tara Reade, a Biden former staffer, claimed repeatedly that she was sexually assaulted in 1993, with a more specific time reference than the amnesiac assertions of E. Jean Carroll.
But whereas Carroll received a waiver by an act of the liberal New York legislature from the statute of limitations and was canonized by the media, Reade was demonized as unhinged.
Note that in 2020-1 a series of stories, most of them suppressed, seem to substantiate Reade’s description of a characteristically and habitually sexually inappropriate Joe Biden.
Biden, for example, was forced to apologize for inappropriate behavior after two women came forward and said that Biden had improperly touched them. Others noted the same pattern of Biden behavior.
Note that in 2014 a book on the Secret Service’s work with first families had described how and why female Secret Service agents found Biden “offensive” for purportedly swimming nude while they were assigned to guard him.
Note as well, the media suppressed any news about the Ashley Biden diary, in which Joe Biden’s daughter had claimed that her youth had been damaged by sexual traumatization, in part apparently because she had become “at a young age” “hyper-sexualized.” And in that context, she added that she had “taken showers with my dad” at a young age, something she felt “was probably not appropriate”.
All of these allegedly tawdry episodes—sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exposure, and sexual abuse of a child— had a common denominator: the media either suppressed news accounts, attacked the accusers, or claimed Joe’s hugs and old-style affections reflected that good ‘ole Joe was a holdover from a different age of manners.
But from the now new post-Trump laws, we have learned there are now no such things as statutes of limitations, especially in the long-ago Carroll and Daniels accusations. Indeed, prosecutors and justices have no hesitation in welcoming such salacious testimony despite any lack of corroborating evidence or relevance to a particular case.
Classified files. Jack Smith is alleging that Donald Trump improperly took out classified presidential files and therefore should be tried on felony offenses. But special counsel Robert Hur’s investigations found that Biden had done the same, but for far longer, dating back at least to 2017, and had stored them in multiple and more insecure cases, and without a presidential prerogative of declassifying them. And Hur also found Biden had admittedly disclosed the classified material to his own ghost writer, who had no security clearance, but who did destroy incriminating tapes of such illegal use of the files once Hur sought to subpoena them.
Unlike Smith, Hur claimed the reason Biden was not indicted was not because of lack of evidence of wrongdoing, but because Biden’s memory and cognition were so debilitated he felt that a sympathetic jury would not convince such an impaired president.
The list of such asymmetries—especially surrounding the Biden family’s income tax exposures and foreign money leveraging—could be expanded almost endlessly. If in all these cases and others, Democrats had been treated in the courts like Trump, the ensuing scandals would have paralyzed the nation and destroyed lots of prominent Democrats and their supporters.
@BillMelugin_ Biden’s executive order is pure political theater.
It allows 2,500 illegals a day which is almost 1 million a year.
It does nothing to deport the 10 million illegals Biden has already let in.
It does nothing to stop illegals who get in undetected.
It’s still an open border.
"These attacks are ridiculous" -- Rep. Robert Garcia responds to Marge Greene's theatrics by saying "this might be the most insane hearing I've attended"
- Use taxpayer money to create COVID overseas
- When it leaks, make up rules to "slow the spread"
- Blame noncompliance when your rules are useless
- Censor anyone who questions how it was created
This man should be in prison for the rest of his life.