Anyone with any sense knew that Biden or his puppetmasters have been in charge of getting all these cases up and running. One of the DoJs top lawyers was transferred to Alvin Bragg’s office, there’s also evidence that Smith or someone in his office called Willis before the GA case was filed. All these cases were brought to try to eliminate Trump and to take attention away from the Biden Crime Family corruption.
The biggest problem with Hunter Biden’s access-peddling business
may have been that his father, the president, thought it was fine.
theatlantic.com
By Sarah Chayes
AUGUST 23, 2023
pic——A photograph of Hunter Biden embraced by his father.
Kenny Holston / The New York Times / Redux
Attorney General Merrick Garland’s decision to convert the federal prosecutor investigating Hunter Biden into a special counsel ensures that Democrats will be fielding uncomfortable questions throughout the 2024 presidential campaign.
They would do well to think before they speak. Asked one such question in a television interview in May, President Joe Biden insisted, “My son’s done nothing wrong.”
But is that true?
It now seems quite likely that Hunter Biden has violated one or more U.S. laws. And that’s not all the wrong he has done. There is a difference between what is technically illegal and what is wrong.
Some context may help explain the chasm that has opened up between the two—the gulf between what most ordinary Americans understand as corruption and the mincing definition that reigns in the professional spheres of politics, the law, and big business.
Since 1987, and most recently in May of this year, a series of Supreme Court cases has relentlessly narrowed the legal definition of corruption. This is the body whose cavalier attitude toward its own ethics has disenchanted many Americans. The Court has whittled down what was once our right to the “honest services” of our public servants to a rule outlawing only the trade of “official acts” performed as part of government duties for money or material gifts. Then the Court chipped away at what counts as an “official act.”
Pressuring subordinates or hosting an official lunch? Closing traffic lanes on the busiest bridge in the United States to pursue a political vendetta? In decision after decision, each of these was disqualified.
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Sarah Chayes is the author of On Corruption in America: And What Is at Stake.