by Victor Davis Hanson
All five criminal and civil cases filed against Donald Trump were quickly and vehemently denied by Democrats that President Biden and Democratic operatives played a role in any of them.
However, Joe Biden has long made clear that he is frustrated with federal prosecutors in his own Justice Department for their delay in indicting Donald Trump.
Biden was nervous because any delay could mean his rival Trump will not be present in federal court during the 2024 election cycle. And that would mean he couldn’t be labeled a “convicted felon” in the November election by staying off the campaign trail.
Policy has long boasted of alleged insider knowledge of the workings of the Biden administration. Notice that this was the case reported in early February, when a frustrated Joe Biden “was complaining about aides and advisers who urged Garland to relocate early as part of the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s election interference, the trial may have already been underway or even ended…”
If there was any doubt about the Biden administration’s efforts to force Trump to appear in court before November, Policy she further dispelled that opinion — even as she blamed Trump for Biden’s anger at Garland: “This trial could still take place before the election, and most of the delays are not Garland’s fault, but deliberate resistance by the former president and his team.”
As an aside, note how a presidential candidate’s right to oppose politicized indictments months before the election brought by his opponent’s federal lawyers is denigrated by Policy as “deliberate resistance”.
Given Policy six months ago publicly reported Biden’s anger over the pace of the Justice Department’s prosecution of Trump, does anyone believe that his special counsel, Jack Smith, was unaware of such dissatisfaction and pressure from the president?
Note Smith filed the petition in connection with an unusual request to the court to expedite the indictment of Trump, which was rejected.
And why would Biden’s attorney general, Merrick Garland, choose such an obvious supporter as Smith? Recall that during his last term as special counsel, Smith went after the popular Republican and conservative governor of Virginia, Bob MacDonald.
However, Smith’s politicized persecution of the innocent McDonnell was reversed by: unanimous judgment of the US Supreme Court. This scarce judicial unanimity under normal circumstances should have raised a red flag to Biden’s Justice Department regarding both Smith’s bias and his incompetence.
But then again, Smith’s wife did donate to Biden’s 2020 campaign fund. She was previously known for producing the hagiographic documentary “Becoming” about Michelle Obama.
The selection of a special counsel with a positive history of prior impartial convictions was obvious NO why the Justice Department appointed Smith.
The White House’s involvement is not constrained to the federal indictments in the Smith case.
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, former lead prosecutor in the Trump indictment Nathan Wade, met twice with the White House counsel’s office. One time Wade met inside Biden’s White House.
Subpoena records show that the brazen Wade actually billed the federal government for time spent with the White House counsel’s staff – although no one has yet revealed under oath the nature of such meetings.
Of the tens of thousands of local prosecutions conducted each year, how many cases does a district attorney consult with the White House Counsel’s office and then bill for his or her expertise?
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has just finished convicting Donald Trump for a crime instigated by former prominent federal prosecutor Matthew Colangelo. He’s not just a notable Democratic supporter who was a political consultant for the Democratic National Committee.
Colangelo had just left his previous position at Biden’s Justice Department – reportedly third-ranking Attorney General Merrick Garland – to join Bragg’s local team.
And again, out of the plethora of annual city-level indictments across the country, how many local prosecutors manage to get one of the top three federal lawyers in the country to handle their case?
Apparently, it was not enough for the shameless Bragg to openly run a campaign based on promises to prosecute Trump. Additionally, Bragg brazenly tapped top Democratic operative and Justice Department political appointee Joe Biden to lead his prosecution.
Not surprisingly, just hours after Colangelo-Bragg convicted Trump over Biden on specs, he began slamming his rival Donald Trump as a “convicted criminal.” Biden is delighted that his former prosecutor, a left-wing judge and a Manhattan jury can keep Trump off the campaign trail.
So it’s time for the media and Democrats to abandon this absurd ruse of Biden White House “neutrality.” Instead, they should admit that they fear the will of the people in November and that is why they are plotting to silence them.
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Victor Davis Hanson is a distinguished fellow at the Center for American Greatness and a Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is an American military historian, columnist, former professor of classical philology and researcher of age-old warfare. Since 2004, he has been a visiting professor at Hillsdale College.
Photo “Donald Trump” by Donald J. Trump. “Joe Biden” photo by President Joe Biden. Cover photo “New York Supreme Court Building” by Except my Ken. CC BY-SA 4.0.
