America Becomes Bolivia
I’m guessing there was much high-fiving and champagne popping in the White House Monday night. If Sleepy Joe could stay awake long enough to watch late-night kabuki theater play out in a Fulton County courtroom, that is.
Biden’s nemesis was indicted on RICO charges, just like earlier mob bosses John Gotti, Vincent “Chin” Gigante and Salvatore “Sammy the Bull” Gravano.
If he were smart - and we know Joe Biden isn’t - the latest round of Trump indictments would make him nervous. If ever a family was built for a RICO prosecution it’s the Bidens.
Think about it: Biden’s crackhead son and brothers did the wet work, while The Big Guy just dropped in via seemingly innocuous phone calls during the shake down of foreign businessmen.
It was genius. Lucrative, too. Millions rolled in from grateful foreign sources and Joe stayed above it all. Like a boss.
What exactly did the Biden underlings make or provide to deserve these rich rewards? No one’s ever answered that because the only answer can be access to the vice president of the United States and by extension, the White House.
Whatever you think of the Trump indictments, one thing is for certain: the glass has now been broken over and over again. Political opponents can be targeted by legal enemies. Running for office now carries the legal risk of going to jail -- on all sides.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 15, 2023
Harvard Law grad Ben Shapiro is right. There is no going back now. Whichever political party is in power will henceforth be bent on imprisoning their political opponents.
You know, just like Bolivia.
Even those of us who do not want Trump to be the Republican nominee and who never believed his claims of the election being stolen, can see what’s happening. Democratic prosecutor after Democratic prosecutor is indicting the former president for acts that other politicians engaged in but were never prosecuted. They waited until now to bring charges so the trials would come on the eve of the 2024 election.
Before Trump, the American ruling class did not attempt to imprison their political opponents.
Those days are over.
Shoot, even liberal Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus is finally getting queasy, although she was happy enough with the federal indictment. Writing in yesterday’s Washington Post she questioned the wisdom of Georgia going after Trump on the same alleged crimes that Jack Smith is prosecuting:
Where Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith took pains to acknowledge Trump’s First Amendment rights and appeared to craft the charges to avoid butting up against free speech concerns, the Georgia indictment doesn’t tread so gingerly. The very first overt act it cites in furtherance of the alleged conspiracy is Trump’s speech declaring victory in the early morning hours following Election Day…
..there is a concern about piling on here. Why stop at Georgia? The federal indictment sets out conduct in six other states in which Trump and his co-conspirators allegedly sought to overturn the election results. Will he be prosecuted in those states, too? At some point, it becomes unfair — yes, even to Trump — to go state by state. That’s why the federal approach is preferable.
Underlying my queasiness is a bias in favor of federal prosecutors who, unlike most of their local counterparts, don’t have to run for election.
A concern about piling on? This is the very definition of piling on. These serial indictments are transparently political and even those of us without law degrees can see what’s going on: Democrats loathe Donald Trump. They want him to squander all of his funds on legal bills and they want to sideline his presidential campaign as he prepares for multiple trials.
Trump’s political enemies weren’t content with spreading lies about Russian collusion during the 2016 campaign, with serial impeachments while he was in office and with getting 50 former spooks to help quash news about Hunter’s laptop in the closing days of the 2020 campaign.
Now they want to send Trump to prison. They want to wreck what’s left of his life. They want him to die in disgrace.
It’s ugly and it’s fundamentally unAmerican.
Just wait, Dems. Your turn will come.
