The indictments are piling up, or so they’re prone to point out in the pages of the Washington Post and New York Times.
The question, however, is whether these indictments mean anything in the grand scheme of knocking Trump off a trajectory to win the 2024 Republican nomination.
With each new charge, it appears more and more like a Department of Justice doing the bidding of a sitting President trying to knock down his most lethal political opposition.
The latest charges, brought by Special Counsel Jack Smith, stem from Trump’s efforts to shed light on the fraud and inconsistencies surrounding the 2020 election, as The Federalist reports:
Former President Donald Trump was indicted Tuesday based on four federal charges brought by corrupt Special Counsel Jack Smith’s investigation into Jan. 6. The charges include conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Here is a flashback to Trump on Jan. 6, 2021, when he allegedly incited an insurrection by telling people to “peacefully and patriotically make [their] voices heard.”
“As you know, I did nothing wrong. It’s well-documented that I told Americans to act ‘PEACEFULLY’ and discouraged the use of any violence,” Trump wrote in a statement after the indictment announcement. “This is nothing but an egregious act of Election Interference and a final act of desperation from Crooked Joe as he crashes in the polls.”
Yes, Trump delivered many words imploring everyone to “peacefully” and “patriotically” march to the Capitol building. but never mind all that, he must be charged.
As the article continues, previous reports indicated that President Biden had become frustrated that Trump wasn’t being charged with a variety of crimes. Furthermore, these Trump indictments seem to coincidently happen while damning testimony against the Biden crime family takes place before the House Oversight Committee:
This is the third indictment President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has levied against his primary political opponent, marking an unprecedented abuse of power usually only seen in banana republics. Biden’s actions are a severe departure from the “unity” messaging he ran on ahead of the 2020 election. During a 2020 NPR interview, Biden said that prosecuting Trump, his chief political rival, would “not [be] very… good for democracy…”
Fast forward to this year when The New York Times reported that Biden was “frusterate[d]” with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland for not prosecuting Trump yet. The Times wrote that the president “wanted Mr. Garland to act less like a ponderous judge and more like a prosecutor who is willing to take decisive action over the events of Jan. 6.”
The indictment comes only a day after Hunter Biden’s former business partner, Devon Archer, testified that Biden was on more than 20 calls with his son Hunter and Hunter’s business partners, who were paying for access to the Biden family.
Similarly, Trump was indicted for his alleged “mishandling” of classified documents a day after Congressional Republicans released a declassified FBI document in which a confidential human source alleged that Joe and Hunter Biden took a $10 million bribe from Burisma to fire the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating the energy company.
Yesterday, Trump pointed out that if they wanted to charge him for anything involved with January 6, 2021, why not do so years ago instead of amid a presidential election?
The result is a Justice Department that looks like a tainted agency doing the bidding of the sitting President attacking his political opponent.
If claiming an election was rigged and/or stolen, where are the indictments for these well-known political figures involved in the 2016 insurrection?
Hillary Clinton flat out called Trump an “illegitimate president” and said he’s “pretending” to be president and yet no indictments were handed down for her stirring words of insurrection.
Democrats launched a multi-year effort, using the Russia collusion narrative as their vessel, to undermine and eventually attempt to remove Trump from office. It wasn’t a one-day event like the protest at the Capital on Jan 6, it was a government-wide effort to perform the long con insurrection of overriding the will of the people who elected Trump in 2016.
Writing more forcefully, John Daniel Davidson calls the latest indictment a direct attack on the American voting public:
Simply put, this indictment is nothing more than a declaration of war against American voters and their constitutional right to free speech. As Jonathan Turley noted on Twitter, “If you take a red pen to all of the material presumptively protected by the First Amendment, you can reduce much of the indictment to haiku.”
Think of it this way. If Smith can indict Trump for speaking out about the election, for arguing that it was stolen or rigged, then rest assured the DOJ under Biden could indict every one of the millions of Americans who agree with Trump about 2020 and have said so publicly. Hell, Smith could probably indict me for writing this article (and especially this one).
Forget about Trump for a minute. This indictment sets a terrifying precedent that puts all Americans at risk. If the prosecution of Trump succeeds, it means the First Amendment is a dead letter in America. It means you’re not allowed to have opinions that contradict the Justice Department’s official narrative — and if you do, you’d better not have the temerity to run for high office.
Claiming the 2020 election was stolen or rigged is protected speech in this country, just as it was for Democrats who claimed ad nausea that the 2016 election was stolen by the Russians or that Trump was “installed” by a foreign government. It was nonsense but protect speech nonetheless.
How about the 51 former intelligence officers who, during the height of the 2020 election, signed a letter calling the Hunter Biden laptop “Russian disinformation” when they have never actually seen the material? They were conspiring publically to help Biden and throw cold water on Trump’s now-proven claims that the Biden family is inherently corrupt.
Every single step along the way since Trump rode down the escalator in 2015 has been the government bureaucracy fighting him from within and within the legal system.
The latest indictments, from the Biden administration’s Department of Justice, are another example of the double standard of justice being applied to those who do not conform to the narrative being pushed by the current regime.
Donald Trump didn’t need much assistance securing the 2024 nomination given his poll numbers, but the Biden administration seems intent on helping.
