Biden Justice Department
October 30, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine has written the column of the day. In it she provides a valuable narrative account that updates what we have learned so far about the Biden family business — the business of corruption — and the suppression of the related investigation. Devine’s column is headlined “Anatomy of a Biden family ‘coverup’ executed by our own FBI and DOJ.” Here is the heart of the column: Closed door testimony
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October 17, 2023 — Lloyd Billingsley
“Donald Trump Followers Targeted by FBI as 2024 Election Nears” headlined the October 4 report in Newsweek. “The federal government believes that the threat of violence and major civil disturbances around the 2024 U.S. presidential election is so great that it has quietly created a new category of extremists that it seeks to track and counter: Donald Trump’s army of MAGA followers.” Author William M. Arkin, an “award-winning journalist” and
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September 28, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Yesterday the House Ways and Means Committee posted a press release headed “Bombshell: Ways and Means Releases New Documents Revealing Hunter Biden Selling Access to White House, Investigators Blocked from Pursuing Evidence Related to President Biden.” The newly released documents are accessible online here. The press release includes highlights from the newly released documents. What’s it all about? New York Post columnist Miranda Devine is the go-to journalist on the
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September 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Miranda Devine reviews Attorney General Merrick Garland’s performance before the House Judiciary Committee yesterday in the New York Post column “Ignorant, pathetic Merrick Garland wilts on the hot seat before Congress.” Garland added the twist of a Mafia don to his usual protestations of rectitude. He don’t know nuthin’ about nuthin’. And your question is a personal insult. I would have missed the deconstruction of what has become the stupid
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September 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
The politicizing of the Department of Justice has been underway for quite a while. It reached a sort of apotheosis when Eric Holder declared himself Barack Obama’s “wing man,” and Holder didn’t mind being held in contempt of Congress as he pursued his higher duty to the Democratic Party. Now we have Merrick Garland as Attorney General, if anything a worse political hack than Holder. He testified today before the
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September 10, 2023 — John Hinderaker
On Thursday evening our time, I was on Sky News Australia’s U.S. Report, hosted by James Morrow. We talked about the sentencing of Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio to 22 years in prison, two years longer than the maximum penalty prescribed by law, for participation in an “insurrection” that he missed. We contrasted that with the 10-year sentence, half of the presumptive punishment, for an arsonist/murderer who was engaged in
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September 7, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I sought to draw attention to the Biden Department of Justice’s advocacy of leniency in the case of Montez Lee, the Minnesota citizen sentenced to 10 years in prison for setting a fire that killed a man during the George Floyd riots that devastated Minneapolis. I set forth the underlying facts of the case in “Felony murder in a good cause” (January 18,2022) and several subsequent posts. Byron York now
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August 29, 2023 — Scott Johnson
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has set Donald Trump’s trial date on four counts of election-related misconduct for trial commencing March 4, 2024 — the day before the Super Tuesday slate of Republican election primaries. “The public has a right to a prompt and efficient resolution of this matter,” Judge Chutkan said, according to the New York Times story on the hearing yesterday. The overriding consideration in a criminal case
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August 21, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Tristan Leavitt is president of Empower America and an attorney representing the whistleblowers in the matter of Hunter Biden. He commented on the leaked emails and resulting stories in Politico and the New York Times over the weekend in a long Twitter thread which I have embedded below. The thread is unrolled and posted for easy reading in the Thread Reader app here. Leavitt explains in his first two tweets:
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August 20, 2023 — John Hinderaker
A considerable number of emails and other documents have been leaked to Politico and the New York Times; I take it that these are the same materials, although this may not be entirely clear. And insiders have leaked off the record to both of these organizations. In their articles, the two news organizations highlight different elements of the documents. One of Politico’s most interesting revelations is that the Biden Department
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August 19, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Andrew McCarthy’s weekly NRO column elaborates on “The chicanery of the Hunter Biden plea deal.” I find that McCarthy’s columns provide analysis that is available nowhere else (and he is a natural teacher to boot). Unfortunately, however, NRO keeps his columns behind its paywall. It occurs to me that someone might want to contribute the funds necessary to liberate them. It would be a public service. McCarthy’s column this week
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August 17, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I supported President Trump until January 6, 2021. However, when Trump made it clear that his endgame was urging his supporters to go up to Capitol Hill and “make your voices heard” to urge Vice President Pence to “do[] the right thing” — “[b]ecause if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election” — and reject the certification of the electoral college results, I got off the train.
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August 14, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Holman Jenkins took up the absurdity of David Weiss’s appointment as special counsel in the Hunter Biden case by Attorney General Garland this past Friday. In the conclusion of his Wall Street Journal column Jenkins turned to the 2024 election: The elder Mr. Biden’s avoidance of the press, if that’s his campaign strategy, will be viable against one opponent only: the now thrice-indicted Mr. Trump. The president’s supporters in the
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August 12, 2023 — Scott Johnson
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the appointment of United States Attorney David Weiss as special counsel in the investigation of Hunter Biden yesterday. The Department of Justice has posted Garland’s statement here. Why Weiss? That is a difficult question to answer honestly in public. Indeed, Garland took no questions — ignoring a reporter who asked why Weiss had been elevated to special counsel if he had “ultimate authority” to prosecute,
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August 11, 2023 — John Hinderaker
There were two developments today in the Biden Department of Justice’s faux prosecution of Hunter Biden. The DOJ filed a document suggesting that Hunter is now bound for trial, following the collapse of his plea bargain before Judge Maryellen Noreika: “After the hearing, the parties continued negotiating but reached an impasse. A trial is therefore in order,” prosecutors said in their Friday filing. *** Later Friday, prosecutors suggested they could
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August 8, 2023 — Scott Johnson
There must be a good answer to the challenge raised by Kim Strassel in her weekly Wall Street Journal column this past Friday. Addressing the indictment of President Trump elicited by Krazy-Eyez Killa Jack Smith, Strassel seeks to understand how far the charge of conspiring to defraud the government — the charge brought under 18 U.S.C. § 371 — can be extended (link omitted): A politician can lie to the
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August 6, 2023 — Scott Johnson
I highly doubt that Secretary of State Antony Blinken is cognizant of the art of esoteric writing by the classic practitioners of political philosophy who sought to guard themselves against persecution by the political authorities. Arthur Melzer calls such esoteric writing Philosophy Between the Lines in his brilliant book of that title. We have every reason to believe that Secretary Blinken is on board with the positions of the Biden
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