(Deroy Murdock, Headline USA) The Department of Justice should be honest and call itself Biden Campaign Headquarters. As a fearsome whiff of East Germany wafts through its windows, this Cabinet agency persecutes Donald J. Trump, the president’s chief political rival, and keeps the heat off of the Bidens. Regardless, temperatures are hotter than July.
Special Counsel Jack Smith’s four-count indictment du jour, unveiled Tuesday, aims to jail Trump for using First Amendment-protected free speech to challenge the validity of the 2020 election. Never mind that Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Chuck Schumer, and countless other Democrats challenged the validity of the 2016 election. They called Trump illegitimate and, for three years, screamed the knowingly false claim that he won only with Vladimir Putin’s help.
When will Smith indict these Democrats?
Never.
Smith hopes to lock up Trump for a “fake electors scheme,” even though Congressional Democrats opposed GOP Electoral College slates and urged their replacement with alternate Democrat electors from contested states in 1969, 2001, 2005, and 2017. They, like Republicans, had every right to do so. Martin Sheen, Noah Wyle, and other celebrities pressured pro-Trump electors to ignore their states’ voters, defect, and support Hillary.
When will Smith indict these Democrats?
Never.
Smith also is making it criminal to offer and accept legal advice with which the DOJ disagrees. American justice will implode if lawyers cannot counsel clients without fearing federal prosecution if the attorney general dislikes their arguments.
Smith’s charges arrived, most conveniently, one day after Hunter Biden’s business partner, Devon Archer, spoke with the House Oversight Committee. This follows a familiar pattern: When the Bidens feel the heat, DOJ immediately cools those flames with fresh accusations against Trump.
Nonetheless, the Bidens appear to occupy a ring of fire.
• DOJ instructed IRS on May 15 to stop its 13-man probe of Hunter’s taxes. DOJ’s scrutiny of Hunter’s tax shenanigans was so glacial that statutes of limitations lapsed on his apparent tax evasion in 2014 and ’15.
• According to IRS whistleblower Gary Shapley, his agency hoped to search Hunter’s northern Virginia storage unit in December 2020. However, Shapley told House investigators that DOJ prosecutor Lesley Wolf “simply reached out to Hunter Biden’s defense counsel and told him about the storage unit, once again ruining our chance to get to evidence before being destroyed, manipulated, or concealed.”
• Despite Joe Biden’s laughable 2019 lies that he had “never spoken” about and “never discussed” his son’s and other relatives’ “overseas business dealings” and “businesses,” Archer testified that Hunter rang his father and put him on speaker phone during some 20 meetings with clients and prospects.
The point was that Hunter could get the then-Vice President of the United States to answer his calls within three rings. Accessing “the Biden brand” was worth at least $10 million, which clients gladly pumped into the family’s 20-plus shell companies.
• According to House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., six different banks have filed a staggering 170 suspicious-activity reports on the Bidens’ transactions.
• Hunter told Archer to buy a burner phone on April 12, 2014, three days before Archer met then-Veep Biden at the White House.
• Hunter’s Laptop from Hell employed at least 16 different message applications, some highly encrypted and even military grade.
• ‘‘Your question- ‘why does Super Chair love me so much?’ is easily answered,” Hunter e-mailed Archer in 2011 about Chinese tycoon Che Feng. “It has…everything to do with my last name (and I bring along very handsome Aryan godlike men wherever I go).”
Until it imploded last week, DOJ responded to all of this, and more, with a plea agreement for Hunter that resembled a day-spa visit.
As the saying goes, watching Congress make laws is uglier than a sausage factory. But the average kielbasa plant is a Michelin-starred restaurant compared to the Upton Sinclair-grade judicial slaughterhouse that Merrick Garland, Joe Biden’s de facto campaign manager, now operates where the Department of Justice once stood.
Deroy Murdock is a Manhattan-based Fox News contributor.
