President Joe Biden waves to the guests during a CNN Town Hall with Anderson Cooper Monday, Feb. 16, 2021, at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
UPDATE 6.10.24: Is the Hunter Biden trial a sideshow to protect Joe Biden from greater corruption chargers? Benjamin Weingarten explains in the NY Post:
Don’t see the Hunter Biden gun case as an effort to hold the president’s prodigal son to account, but as a political maneuver aimed at protecting the prosecutors, perhaps the defendant, and certainly his father.
This sideshow diverts the public’s gaze from far larger corruption: Felony gun charges are piddling when weighed against the selling out of our country, not to mention the leverage Hunter’s dubious dealings and debauchery might have provided our enemies in the way of kompromat.
Yes, it features many “shiny objects,” some juicy, and others genuinely newsworthy, from the riveting trainwreck that was Hunter Biden’s life at the time he committed the alleged offenses — lurid details of his drug abuse, relationships and recklessness — to the vindicating-for-The-Post-but-still-unbelievable Justice Department decision to enter the “laptop from hell” into evidence.
Yet, while Special Counsel David Weiss and by extension Attorney General Merrick Garland will play this as the Biden Justice Department’s pursuit of even the president’s son without fear or favor, it’s no such thing.
First, Hunter may well be found not guilty, or at least get a hung jury. His team is tugging at the heartstrings of jurors hailing from a state in which the Bidens are royalty.
The defense is diving deep into the tragedies that have befallen their royal family and Hunter’s harrowing struggles with alcohol and drug abuse — struggles with which many of the jurors are likely to sympathize, based on their own experiences.
Biden-friendly media have reported that Joe Biden is concerned about the case, making this a story about a father’s love for his targeted son as well — turning the Bidens not only into potentially sympathetic characters, but victims.
Even a guilty verdict may lose on appeal, gobsmackingly enough, by using as a defense a pro-Second Amendment Supreme Court ruling that Joe Biden has panned.
Yet this case — involving offenses at a remove from Hunter Biden’s father, heard in the most favorable venue for the Bidens that any case could have been brought — was never supposed to happen.
President Joe Biden holding a microphone, meeting with UAW members during a campaign stop at a phone bank in Union Hall in Warren, Michigan.
It inadvertently serves as an indictment of prosecution and defense alike.
Recall how we got here: For years, key players at the Justice Department and FBI systematically sabotaged the real case against Hunter Biden.
Prosecutors and investigators ignored or declined to pursue evidence of his serious, compromising, and national-security-imperiling misconduct — ranging from alleged violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act to tax evasion connected to the Biden family’s international influence-peddling business.
Most egregiously, prosecutors let the statutes of limitation lapse on material offenses most closely linked to then-Vice President Biden’s policy portfolio.
A pair of IRS agents, appalled at seeing their peers tank the investigation, risked everything and came forward as whistleblowers.
They brought forth reams of evidence — all through proper congressional channels — tracking how federal law enforcement had protected the Bidens.
Their evidence was only compounded by the fact that the same federal forces were simultaneously engaging in an ever-intensifying jihad against Donald Trump.
Originally posted on September 7, 2021.
Americans, says Dr. Ron Paul, former congressman and presidential candidate, must resist “all forms of government infringements on liberty.” That resistance should begin by getting rid of the Biden administration. Paul writes in LewRockwell.com (abridged):
Corporations are imposing requirements, including that employees show proof of vaccination, pay more for health insurance if they have not had a covid vaccine, and undergo regular (in some cases weekly) covid tests. An increasing number of state and local governments are requiring their employees and even people working in some private jobs to take covid vaccines, as well as imposing vaccine passport requirements on people generally.
President Biden has urged employers to implement vaccine mandates, and government is working with its big tech allies to develop “model” vaccine passports.
Government approved model vaccine requirements combined with government officials encouraging their adoption send the message to businesses that imposing vaccine requirements on their employees, and maybe their customers as well, is a good way to stay in the politicians and bureaucrats’ good graces.
An effective way for the US government to “encourage” adoption of vaccine mandates and vaccine passports is denying federal funds to businesses, states, local governments, and other institutions that refuse to require employees, customers, or other people to prove they are vaccinated. This will result in vaccine requirements while enabling government to claim it is not forcing vaccines on anyone.
President Biden is already planning for the US government denying Medicare and Medicaid funding to nursing homes that do not require their employees to prove they are vaccinated.
It is imperative that we support the growing resistance to vaccine mandates and vaccine passports. We must also expand the resistance to covid authoritarianism to resistance to all forms of government infringements on liberty.
By Ron Paul, MD
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