{"id":1469963,"date":"2024-06-07T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1469963"},"modified":"2024-06-07T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T19:25:00","slug":"the-myth-that-biden-had-nothing-to-do-with-the-prosecutions-of-trump-vdh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-myth-that-biden-had-nothing-to-do-with-the-prosecutions-of-trump-vdh\/1469963\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth That Biden Had Nothing To Do With The Prosecutions Of Trump; VDH"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Myth That Biden Had Nothing To Do With The Prosecutions Of Trump; VDH<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Victor Davis Hanson,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The five criminal and civil prosecutions of former President Donald Trump all prompt heated denials from Democrats that President Joe Biden and Democrat operatives had a role in any of them.<\/p>\n

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But Biden has long let it be known that he was frustrated with his own Department of Justice\u2019s federal prosecutors for their tardiness in indicting Trump. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Biden was upset because any delay might mean that his rival Trump would not be in federal court during the 2024 election cycle. And that would mean he could not be tagged as a \u201cconvicted felon\u201d by the November election while being kept off the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

Politico has long prided itself on its supposed insider knowledge of the workings of the Biden administration. Note that it was reported earlier this February that a frustrated Joe Biden \u201chas grumbled to aides and advisers that had [Attorney General Merrick] Garland moved sooner in his investigation into former President Donald Trump\u2019s election interference, a trial may already be underway or even have concluded\u2026\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

If there was any doubt about the Biden administration\u2019s effort to force Trump into court before November, Politico further dispelled it \u2014 even as it blamed Trump for Biden\u2019s anger at Garland:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat trial still could take place before the election and much of the delay is owed not to Garland but to deliberate resistance put up by the former president and his team.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Note in passing how a presidential candidate\u2019s legal right to oppose a politicized indictment months before an election by his opponent\u2019s federal attorneys is smeared by Politico as \u201cdeliberate resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Given Politico was publicly reporting six months ago about Biden\u2019s anger at the pace of his DOJ\u2019s prosecution of Trump, does anyone believe his special counsel, Jack Smith, was not aware of such presidential displeasure and pressure?<\/p>\n

Note Smith had petitioned and was denied an unusual request to the court to speed up the course of his Trump indictment.<\/p>\n

And why would Biden\u2019s own attorney general, Garland, select such an obvious partisan as Smith? <\/strong>Remember, in his last tenure as special counsel, Smith had previously gone after popular Republican and conservative Virginia governor Bob MacDonnell.<\/p>\n

Yet Smith\u2019s politicized persecution of the innocent McDonnell was reversed by a unanimous verdict of the U.S. Supreme Court. That rare court unanimity normally should have raised a red flag to the Biden DOJ about both Smith\u2019s partiality and his incompetence. <\/strong><\/p>\n

But then again, Smith\u2019s wife had donated to the 2020 Biden campaign fund. And she was previously known for producing a hagiographic 2020 documentary (\u201cBecoming\u201d) about Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n

Selecting a special counsel with a successful record of prior nonpartisan convictions was clearly not why the DOJ appointed Smith.<\/p>\n

The White House\u2019s involvement is not limited to the Smith federal indictments.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis\u2019s paramour and erstwhile lead prosecutor in her indictment of Trump, Nathan Wade, met twice with the White House counsel\u2019s office. On one occasion, Wade met inside the Biden White House.<\/p>\n

Subpoenaed records reveal that the brazen Wade actually billed the federal government for his time spent with the White House counsel\u2019s staff \u2014 although so far no one has disclosed under oath the nature of such meetings. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Of the tens of thousands of local prosecutions each year, in how many instances does a county prosecutor consult with the White House counsel\u2019s office \u2014 and then bill it for his knowledge?<\/p>\n

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg\u2019s just-completed felony convictions of Trump were spearheaded by former prominent federal prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. He is not just a well-known Democratic partisan who served as a political consultant to the Democratic National Committee.<\/p>\n

Colangelo had also just left his prior position in the Biden Justice Department \u2014 reputedly as Garland\u2019s third-ranking prosecutor \u2014 to join the local Bragg team.<\/p>\n

Again, among all the multitudes of annual municipal indictments nationwide, how many local prosecutors manage to enlist one of the nation\u2019s three top federal attorneys to head their case?<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, apparently, it was not enough for the shameless Bragg to campaign flagrantly on promises to go after Trump. In addition, Bragg brashly drafted a top Democratic operative and political appointee from inside Joe Biden\u2019s DOJ to head his prosecution.<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, it took only a few hours after the Colangelo-Bragg conviction of Trump for Biden on spec to start blasting his rival as a \u201cconvicted felon.\u201d<\/strong> Biden is delighted that his own former prosecutor, a left-wing judge, and a Manhattan jury may well keep Trump off the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

So, it is past time for the media and Democrats to drop this ridiculous ruse of the Biden White House\u2019s \u201cneutrality.\u201d <\/strong>Instead, they should admit that they are terrified of the will of the people in November and so are conniving to silence them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nFri, 06\/07\/2024 – 11:25<\/span><\/p>\n

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