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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
How do you tell Hunter Biden’s lawyers apart from his prosecutors?
That was the confusing question that Judge Maryellen Noreika had to grapple with while unpacking a plea deal in which prosecutors buried an agreement that gave Hunter immunity from prosecution that had been written to avoid judicial scrutiny. Why would prosecutors write a plea deal for Hunter that one of them admitted to Judge Noreika had no precedent?
The rejected plea deal was unprecedented because prosecutors and defense attorneys were unprecedentedly working for the same team. But that’s what happens when the Justice Department pretends to be investigating the president’s son with his dad’s reelection on the line.
The Hunter Biden plea deal was part of a package in which the DOJ and the FBI stonewalled Congress and are trying to send Devon Archer, Hunter’s closest pal, to prison ahead of his congressional testimony in which he was scheduled to accuse Joe Biden of taking part in conversations with Hunter’s business partners while serving as vice president.
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer called this “obstruction of justice” and denounced “the lengths to which the Biden legal team has gone to try to intimidate our witnesses, to coordinate with the DOJ and certainly to coordinate with the Democrats on the House Oversight Committee to encourage people not to cooperate with our investigation.”
United States v. Biden is a farce because they’re one and the same. The United States of America is currently run by Biden’s dad. The relationship isn’t antagonistic. Beyond ideological allegiances, a whole echelon of Justice Department personnel have bet their careers on the ascension of Democrat political candidates who then appoint transition team members whose pals are their former bosses. When a Hillary or a Joe Biden enters the White House, they all move up a few steps closer to a lucrative position they can use as a springboard to partner in a prestigious D.C. law firm, score a top security consulting position or run for public office.
If Biden loses in 2024, a bunch of DOJ people will have to hold off on that lake house, the extended trip to Europe and the move to a D.C. bedroom community. That’s why the Hunter Biden investigation was never anything more than performative. Everyone wanted to be seen going through the motion, but no one wanted to risk actually winning. Performative bureaucracy is a pantomime in which everyone appears to have done their job but nothing has gotten done. This routine infuriates ordinary citizens who watch it happen when they spend two years waiting for a construction permit, an appointment at the DMV or the outcome of a federal investigation.
The IRS whistleblowers were sidelined because they almost ruined the show by trying to do things even after they were told repeatedly that their job was to run out the clock. The FBI, which was moving full speed ahead in going after Trump or non-violent pro-life protesters, ran out the clock on the Hunter Biden investigation. Armed with evidence of a host of crimes that would have sent any ordinary person away long enough to become a grandfather, the combined defense team and prosecution teamed up to write up an extensive blank check for Hunter.
Judge Noreika’s objection, much like Durham’s, is procedural, but the problem isn’t just that the DOJ violated proper protocol in going after Trump or that it violated the correct procedures in cover up for Hunter Biden, it’s that the Department of Justice has become a political entity.
The procedural violations are symptoms of systemic political corruption.
Critics suspect that figures like Devon Archer or Gal Luft are targeted because they have damaging information about Hunter Biden. And Hunter Biden is protected because he’s the president’s son and anything he says has the potential to bring down his father and his party.
Hunter Biden has become too big to fall because his father, a formerly small-time hack, now carries a party and an ideology on his shaking shoulders. Anyone who threatens Hunter also threatens the ideological project of the leftists who placed their bets on Biden for a second term. And beyond them lies a vast career bureaucracy that also depends on Hunter staying free.
Parties and regimes often crack up over such petty corruption, but what’s cracking up here is the DOJ. The Justice Department has become a corrupt institution in which it alternately ignores and pursues charges of mishandling classified documents based on the party of the presidential candidate, in which it subjects everything from obstruction of justice and FARA violations to gun charges and prostitution to the same political test. While enemies of the party can be tried for anything, members of their party and their kin can commit any crime in the world and walk away.
Hunter Biden is personally insignificant, yet he has become a powerful symbol of a corrupt system. What began with the DOJ acting to protect Hillary Clinton and her aides has now escalated to covering for the entire Biden family. How far is that going to go? Is the DOJ going to become a family law firm for Joe Biden’s brother or for every Biden family member receiving money from the complex web of shell companies surrounding the family’s foreign enterprises?
How many bananas are there in the Biden banana republic? How many plantations? How many acres? If Hunter Biden had run over someone while going 170 mph through a residential neighborhood in Arlington, as he photographed himself doing, would the local cops have busted him or carefully bagged up his crack pipe for the FBI to take away as material evidence in some unrelated case that never sees the light of day? What if he had hit someone important?
Questions like these would have once seemed absurd but are now highly relevant. In a corrupt justice system all we can do is explore the limits of the corruption. How much Hunter could get away with is a stress test of how much corruption his father and the whole clan can do. The Lewinsky case was insignificant but it was a test of whether the rules applied. (They did not.) It’s hard to think of a case where the rules, large or small, have since applied to Clinton associates, accomplices, successors and members of his party.
What began as selective neglect has escalated into affirmative cover-ups. The son of a president doesn’t just expect to get a pass, but for prosecutors to come out and lie to a judge.
At the end of George Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm’ describing the descent into Communism, “the creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” At Hunter Biden’s plea deal, the judge looked around but was unable to say which of the pigs covering for a presidential crackhead were his lawyers and which were the government prosecutors assigned to bring him to justice.
Farce is the word.
I was thinking earlier, Hunter’s behavior is so outrageous that maybe he wants to be caught. I don’t know much about that syndrome but I’ve heard that for some addicts, it’s a cry for help.
I don’t think it’s a cry for help. He doesn’t want help. He’s a sick, evil little pervert junkie and he’s having a good time.
He behaves the way he does because he believes he’s untouchable. He knows the entire system will pull together to keep him out of the slam.
He’s giving two fingers to every decent, hardworking, moral person out there and he loves it.
There’s enough evidence out there to hang this sick twist just on general principles, I say just do it, and the old pervert alongside him.
They will not be missed.
Many cover ups are worse than the actual crime but in Bidengate the acceptance of bribes is glaring
We’ve become a banana republic. DOJ is horrible and corrupt, alright, but it is just a symptom of the Democrats’ “fundamental transformation” of the U.S.
True. America is no longer a constitutional republic because of the doj/fbi being politicized and, in effect, destroyed by Obama and Biden. Yes, they did it.
Yes, Obama – who should not have even been allowed to run after he confessed here he was NOT born in America:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcd41RO25k
As an aside to the topic at hand, there are a few attempting to make the claim “you must be born in America, one American citizen parent is not enough”.
The majority of the country wants nothing to do with that.
In particular, the citizens of this country who signed to put their lives on the line wearing a military uniform. And whose children were born in foreign countries because that’s where our country sent them to serve, and that’s why they were born there.
After 30 years in a military uniform, including time posted outside of the country on foreign US military bases, I can’t help but notice most of the people claiming the children of Americans born to American parents abroad can’t run for president have successfully avoided wearing the uniform of this country at ANY time in their lives.
Apparently, they believe they’re more qualified than the children of American serviceman born while their parents were posted abroad.
The DOJ has become the Department of Biden. There’s no longer any Justice involved in their behavior. They are beyond contempt and worthy of endless ridicule.
I would agree except the Biden’s have no shame or conscience and therefore can not be ridiculed. The whole lit are nothing more than soulless, corrupt pompous aholes, who think nothing of selling this country out. They are below contempt and should be social pariahs.
He presents as a full blown sociopath.
Hey, if we don’t take back the White House in 2024 (and it will be because of ANOTHER stolen election) we will have to go to civil war. This is what the communist goons in the Obama administration are itching for. Best strategy? A Night of the Long Knives in D.C. and Martha’s Vineyard. Thank heavens America is well armed.
And a Trip To THE GALLOWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The system has always been corrupt. Recently, beginning with Joe Kennedy saying he did not want to pay for a landslide. The big cities have always been corrupt. The last two times we stood up were the veterans in DC in the 30’s and Athens, Tennessee in ’46. Until we tire of living under bureaucrat type rules , no representation in Congress, and no official recognizing the Bill of Rights in our situation we will continue to deteriorate.
Yankees in Western Mass still comment upon Shay’s Rebellion.
Don’t Iranians complain about Alexander the Great?
Hence Faulkner’s observation that the past is never dead, it’s not even past.
But Alexander married Roxan and ordered his men to take Persian mistresses.! 🙂
But those Iranians are still pissed off, I bet. Nobody likes being conquered.
I wouldn’t know first hand because America has never been conquered and hopefully never will in my lifetime. You never know with all these lefties creeping around, though.
When Judge Maryellen read”The Plea-Deal”,she looked down at the Two Tables and asked herself;”Where Is The PROSECUTION”????????????
Hunter is a psychopathic psychophant !! There’s a difference but a combination of the two results in ONE SICK PUPPY! I’m surprised he hasn’t od’d yet, but if the walls get TOO CLOSE to “the big buy” he just might! IF the DEMOcrats think for one second that Hunter might be cornered and FLIP then he’s toast!!