Remember when Trump was first elected and our government, the FBI and the like told us that Trump was essentially a “Russian agent” — a stooge of Putin and the Kremlin, etc.? Remember? Good times.
Then we paid John Durham millions to investigate his own department. He said the FBI did not act honorably at high levels and that, as many of us knew, the Hillary Clinton campaign essentially paid for the phony Steele dossier that it used to frame Trump. Our “deep state” FBI, in cahoots with the Clinton campaign and the DNC, fabricated it, and lying shills in Congress such as Adam Schiff pushed it.
It has become apparent to anyone paying attention that the entrenched Democrat lifers in the unaccountable “deep state” in D.C want to get Trump. We have so many laws in America, layered upon older laws, that they can get any one of us if they want.
In fact, Harvard University professor Harvey Silverglate estimates that daily life in the United States is so overcriminalized that the average American professional commits about three felonies a day. Moreover, if you count local laws, onepoll.com concluded that we all commit seven crimes a week.
I read where a man was charged with offering three women food in exchange for sex. I guess he was charged with three counts of dating.
That allows a capricious government with all the power over us it wants to make us comply or be targeted. And this is what is happening. Forget Trump and his likely mishandling of classified documents. This is about a government that has grown too large, too expensive and too unaccountable.
Your garden variety criminals are much less of a danger to us than an entrenched, politically coordinated, unaccountable federal government.
Fundamental to every crime pursued in America, there should be a victim. Not a victim like a soccer player laying out pretending to get hurt to draw a foul, but a real victim. We are in a place in America where we hardly incarcerate real criminals in favor of chasing political opponents and ruining their lives. The process is the punishment, it is often said, of being the target of dubious crimes.
So will our DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland go after Joe Biden, who also had classified documents for years, including at the Chinese-funded Penn Center? Say what you will about Biden’s lack of economic understanding; Biden family members are the only ones who have a trade surplus with China. With family grift and corruption, Biden’s baggage makes Trump’s look like a small carry-on bag.
After the pre-dawn raid by 30-plus federales on Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago, Biden had plenty of time to purge his garage and beachfront homes of classified documents. These homes were bought on his government salary.
Biden, like Trump and Mike Pence, had highly important classified documents. Will the feds indict them? Of course not. Same crime, different people. Since Pence will not be running with Trump again, he is probably as safe as Biden.
And how about Hillary Clinton, the OG of dodging felonies? She destroyed more than 30,000 emails under federal subpoena. And to make sure they were gone, she also “bleach-bit” her old cellphones and smashed the SIM cards. Yet she still had classified documents on her personal server. Apparently, this was “no problem,” per Comey and the FBI. I bet if they raided Hillary’s home, they would find boxes and boxes of classified suicide notes.
Hillary is just watching Biden and Trump implode but won’t say if she is running. It’s just like Hillary to leave folks hanging.
Contact Ron Hart, a syndicated op-ed satirist, author and TV/radio commentator, at Ron@RonaldHart.com or @RonaldHart on Twitter.