President-elect Biden wary of Trump-focused investigations, sources say

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has privately told advisers that he doesn't want his presidency to be consumed by investigations of his predecessor, according to five people familiar with the discussions, despite pressure from some Democrats who want inquiries into President Donald Trump, his policies and members of his administration.

Biden has raised concerns that investigations would further divide a country he is trying to unite and risk making his presidency about Trump, said the sources, who spoke on background to offer details of private conversations. They said he has specifically told advisers that he is wary of federal tax investigations of Trump or of challenging any orders Trump may issue granting immunity to members of his staff before he leaves office. One adviser said Biden has made it clear that he "just wants to move on."

Another Biden adviser said, "He's going to be more oriented toward fixing the problems and moving forward than prosecuting them."

Any approach by Biden's Justice Department to Trump, his staff, his associates, his business or his policies wouldn't affect investigations by state officials, including Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., who has fought to obtain Trump's tax returns.

As Biden tries to balance his own inclinations and pressures from within his party, his advisers stressed that he is seeking to reset the dynamic between the White House and the Justice Department from what it has been under Trump.

Biden wants his Justice Department to function independently from the White House, aides said, and Biden isn't going to tell federal law enforcement officials whom or what to investigate or not to investigate.

"His overarching view is that we need to move the country forward," an adviser said. "But the most important thing on this is that he will not politicize his Justice Department."

“Why Your Vote Will Never Matter Again As Long As You Live.”

BY HERSCHEL SMITH / CAPTAIN’S JOURNAL

I’ve done calculations and data analysis my entire working career as a registered professional engineer. So let me break this down for you in a method I think you’ll understand and add a few points.

In four important counties in Michigan, those areas that strongly lean republican voted for Biden when examining non-straight ticket voting. In other words, republicans didn’t like Trump, even more so than democrats didn’t like Trump (or at least, you have to believe this in order to accept the data, an absurd proposition). But wait! The fun is just beginning, and there’s more.

This held true in the superlative for more heavily leaning republican precincts. In other words, the more heavily leaning republicans didn’t like Trump even more than less heavily leaning republican precincts! But wait, there’s more!

This trend held true monotonically. The line graph depicting this behavior could be curve fitted with a fairly confident correlation coefficient! But wait, there’s more.

These trend lines in various counties were virtually the same slope! That’s right. Virtually every republican leaning precinct had automatons who all felt exactly the same way.

This behavior held true in Michigan ONLY for the four important counties, not the other ones in Michigan. In other words, the four counties Biden needed to win, and win big, he did, because of this deeply felt, monotonically increasing hatred of Trump in more heavily republican leaning precincts.

This is why your vote will never matter again as long as you live. Here we are.

https://www.captainsjournal.com/2020/11/16/dr-shiva-ayyadurai-on-the-2020-election-fraud/

This thing reads like the Susan Rice memo.

As the Obama admin was heading out the door, Rice wrote herself a memo emphasizing how proper and non-political, and by-the-book all of the Obama actions had been. It was classic CYA.

Now Biden thinks he is starting up and is loudly stating his intention to be proper and non-political, and by-the-book.

He won’t be. Certainly not Harris.

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