Posted on 02/20/2024 8:26:21 AM PST by MtnClimber
As Democrats rush to defend President Joe Biden from damning revelations about just how poor his memory and mental state are, they should remember that they themselves sowed the seeds of this crisis by weaponizing special counsels to target Donald Trump.
In the February 8 release of the final report from special counsel Robert Hur – who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate President Joe Biden’s mishandling of classified documents – Hur concluded by recommended against criminal charges for the president on account of his “significantly limited” memory. In the hours and days that followed, Democrat operatives and left-wing prosecutors predictably and frantically rushed to Biden’s defense.
The damage control campaign began with Vice President Kamala Harris, who called the report “clearly politically motivated” and “inaccurate and inappropriate.” (Harris’s claim that the report is “inaccurate” holds especially little weight given that she was not present for Hur’s interviews with Biden.)
Democrat Congressman Daniel Goldman (D-NY), who served as the head Democrat counsel in Donald Trump’s 2020 impeachment, also criticized the report’s details surrounding Biden’s memory as “irrelevant.”
In a frenzied op-ed, former Obama FBI official Andrew Weissman lamented what he described as a gross mischaracterization of the report by the press—and went on to characterize the report’s details as “entirely inappropriate” and “gratuitous,” noting the dangers of “putting your thumb on the scale” in a way “that could have political repercussions.”
The great irony of the left’s hysteria, of course, is that it was the Democrat Party and the progressive ruling class in the first place that instituted the norm of appointing weaponized special counsels to investigate their political opponents. Today, that precedent is finally coming back to haunt them.
In the last 149 years, the Department of Justice has appointed 50 special counsels to investigate sensitive political matters. Five of those investigations—or 10 percent of all investigations dating back to 1875—have occurred since Trump’s inauguration in 2017, perhaps the most notable of which was Robert Mueller’s investigation into the now-thoroughly debunked Russian collusion hoax.
Other special counsel investigations include John Durham’s investigation into the origins of Russiagate, Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump, and David Weiss’s ongoing investigation into Hunter Biden.
Recent special counsels primarily have been used as a weapon by the left to pursue political witch hunts and investigate unsubstantiated allegations surrounding Trump and other conservatives.
But with nothing more than a few comments on the state of Biden’s memory, Special Counsel Robert Hur—appointed by Biden’s own Attorney General—may have single-handedly destroyed Biden’s presidency and tanked his reelection chances.
Of course, unlike the investigations into Trump, the Hur investigation was indeed warranted by the facts: Biden had willfully retained classified documents in his garage and at the Penn Biden Center, and unlike Trump did not have the authority to declassify them. Moreover, Hur is only detailing the facts from his interviews with Biden, rather than fabricating a narrative out of whole cloth as has been the case with the investigations into Trump.
The onslaught of outrage from the left in response to the revelations of the Hur report—much of which is coming from precisely the same people who led or advocated for a series of politically motivated investigations into Trump and other Republicans—is quite telling.
For years, Democrats have had no problem using special counsels and other elements of the U.S. justice and political systems to baselessly target and smear their political enemies without any regard for the rule of law, judicial independence, or the American constitutional framework.
But now that a special counsel investigation is yielding results that the left finds politically unpalatable, they are crying foul. The reaction of figures like Harris, Goldman, Weissman, and others—who gleefully cheered the flagrant persecution of Trump and the abuse of our legal system for the advancement of left-wing political goals—is illustrative.
Just a few years ago, Weissman, who criticized Hur for putting his “thumb on the scale” against Biden, suggested that Robert Mueller was too timid in his investigation of Trump’s Russia ties, stating regretfully, “We could have done more.” And in his opening statement in Trump’s impeachment hearings in December of 2019, Goldman framed Trump as a threat to “the very foundation of our democracy,” despite the lack of anything remotely resembling criminal wrongdoing (not to mention the fact that Trump has since been entirely vindicated in his concerns about Biden’s corruption).
The fact that the same people who spent years parroting baseless theories that Donald Trump was a Russian asset, among other partisan fantasies, are now berating Robert Hur for some brief commentary on Biden’s memory reveals that partisan lawfare is their highest priority.
Moroever, it confirms that leftist prosecutors and Democrat operatives regard our nation’s legal procedures and constitutional mechanisms as nothing more than weapons in the liberal arsenal with which to target and destroy their political opponents.
If Democrats are so upset with what they say is Hur’s false conclusion, they can easily prove him wrong: all they have to do is release the tape of the Biden interview. Don’t hold your breath.
Leftists seem to forget that regardless of their success with Stalinist show trials, they will have a judgement day that they cannot corrupt.
Pastor Jack Hibbs Prayer Before Congress
Guest Chaplain, Pastor Jack Hibbs, opening prayer to begin the United States House of Representatives proceedings on January 30, 2024.
The Chaplain: Let’s pray. All Mighty God and Father, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, together we come before you in humility, as the people in need of your forgiveness, your mercy, your goodness, and your grace. For these 250 so years, our fathers in this congress have prayed for your guidance and protection.
And so we stand here in humble petition that you, today, might do the same, that this nation and its unparalleled Constitution, your great gift to all freedom-loving people, might be renewed here and across this land as a beacon of hope to all who seek peace. I ask you today, Father, to bring to us a great awakens of righteousness and confidence in You, who alone is mighty to save. Hear my cry in this hour of great need that we might be humbly blessed before you in the repentance of our national sins.
You, all mighty God, are the source of all wisdom, and there is no wisdom but that which comes from you. So please come upon those here who are the stewards over the business of our nation with your wisdom which comes from above. And with your Holy fear, knowing that your coming day of judgment draws near, when all who have been, and are now in the authority, will answer to you, the Great Judge of heaven and of earth, for the decisions that they make here in this place. I offer this prayer, to you Father, in the name of Jesus Christ our Son, your Son, and our crucified savior and resurrected Lord. In Jesus name. Amen.
“may have single-handedly destroyed Biden’s presidency and tanked his reelection chances.”
Nope. Too many voters already know Biden’s incapacity to continue serving as President.
They also know that, independently of Biden the individual, the country is heading in bad directions.
The right will never hold the left accountable. No one on the left will go to jail or be bankrupted.
Quoting Ann Archy: Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball less.
Daniel Goldman. Andrew Weissmann.
Oh boy!
Hur has stated what everyone else knows. Biden is a corrupt, mentally unstable crook.
Thanks for remembering my quote!
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