Posted on 08/23/2025 5:47:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Friday’s Bolton raid and the rebuke of Trump’s $500M fine show what happens when justice is not impartial.
If you are a liberal alarmed by the Friday raid on the home of former national security adviser John Bolton, well, you should be. It’s possible that if charges come out, we’ll learn that Bolton committed a security breach that would have been prosecuted under any president. But there are reasons to suspect otherwise, given that President Donald Trump and FBI director Kash Patel have endorsed lawfare against their political enemies, including Bolton.
This is a crisis for American democracy, because even if charges bear out in this case, the fact remains that we cannot trust our officials to impartially administer justice. And if we can’t count on that, we are vulnerable to their punitive whims — a motivated prosecutor can usually find something to prosecute, even if they’re unlikely to win a conviction.
Those who believe in the value of neutral institutions must do everything they can now to protect the rule of law — and I’m afraid that doesn’t mean condemning just Trump. It also requires us to condemn Democrats who have violated norms of institutional neutrality in their zeal to get Trump.
By curious coincidence, the day before the Bolton raid, a New York appellate court vacated the fine, totaling nearly half-a-billion dollars, imposed by state Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron last year in a civil suit brought by New York State Attorney General Letitia James. The ruling left in place the lower court’s decision that Trump had committed fraud, though the court disagreed on to what extent, and one judge wanted to throw the verdict out entirely. But the decision, particularly the separate opinion from Judge David Friedman, offers a disturbing account of a justice system that...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
No matter how much you hate these people, you don't hate them enough.
I prefer the El Rush-Bo description / name:
The Washington Compost
The Washington Post discovers lawfare. I wonder how many times they used the term (without scare quotes) in the last four years.
I read that and my brain almost exploded. How could someone type that grotesque statement?
I have to chuckle at their irony, and their underestimation of our mental abilities, for the biggest mistake one can make is to underestimate the enemy..
“””— a motivated prosecutor can usually find something to prosecute, even if they’re unlikely to win a conviction.””
They were talking about Fani Willis, Leticia James, Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg etc, right????
No one is above the law.
Does Wapo really have that ruinously short of a memory?
Or do its readers have ridiculously short memories.
How did they miss the raids on Mar a Lago, Stone, Navarro, Manafort, and that military hero whose wife lost the baby?
I want these liberals arrested and given a one-way ticket to capital punishment for their offenses to this country, under the guise of Law.
Rumors are that Bolton emailed classified docs to a family member so yeah that’s a crime
Bullshit! Hillary Clinton most certainly is.
I’m torn between “unmitigated gall“ and “it takes one to know one“. And you’re right.
She doesn’t have the credentials to make a statement like that. No water degree. Just your typical preppy school and liberal arts background another spoiled little rich girl masquerading as a.”journalist”
Make the WaPo choke on that.
The Post never disappoints in their grasp of crap.
“”””Rumors are that Bolton emailed classified docs to a family member so yeah that’s a crime”””
Since the CIA gave the information to the FBI it seems like he may have been selling things to other countries.
So now they can ask the Magic Mustache if he wants to spill the beans about the whole conspiracy or go to prison for many years.
Pravda on the Potomac....
‘
“What goes around comes around”
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.