“Lawyers for Hunter Biden raised the prospect that he is the victim of ‘vindictive’ prosecution Wednesday as they asked a federal judge to issue subpoenas demanding documents from former President Donald Trump, his ex-attorney general Bill Barr, and two other former top Department of Justice officials,” CNBC relayed Wednesday.
“Mr. Biden seeks specific information from three former DOJ officials and the former President that goes to the heart of his defense that this is, possibly, a vindictive or selective prosecution arising from an unrelenting pressure campaign beginning in the last administration, in violation of Mr. Biden’s Fifth Amendment rights under the Constitution,” Biden lawyer Abbe Lowell wrote in the request to United States District Court District of Delaware Judge Maryellen Noreika.
Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue “took handwritten notes of a call with Trump and [former Attorney General Jeffrey] Rosen showing that Trump instructed the Justice Department officials to ‘figure out what to do with H[unter] Biden’ and indicated Trump insisted that ‘people will criticize the DOJ if he’s not investigated for real,’” USA Today quoted from the request.
Not helping is former Attorney General Bill Barr’s book recalling his reply to Donald Trump for asking him about the investigation: “Dammit, Mr. President, I am not going to talk to you about Hunter Biden. Period!”
Why not? There’s a huge difference between keeping apprised of information that can legally be shared so that the administration has a sense of the situation and illegally soliciting privileged information. Likewise, saying “Figure out what to do” presupposes assessing that situation, and Trump’s earlier conversation with Florida officials to “find the votes” was not an instruction to make anything up, but a legitimate plea to look at evidence pointing to voting irregularities.
As for Trump’s observation that “people will criticize the DOJ if he’s not investigated for real,” that’s not only true but invites the question, “Who would be against a real investigation, and why?”
One might also ask, as Ohio Rep. Mike Turner has, why DOJ Special Counsel David Weiss ignored waivers alerting him to expirations and allowed the statute of limitations clock to run out on felony charges against Biden:
“You have foreign individuals that are making payments to the son of the vice president, now son of the president, and obviously they’re buying something. They weren’t buying his business advice, they were buying influence.”
That dovetails with Sen. Chuck Grassley releasing unclassified FBI records on Joe Biden’s “alleged” foreign bribery scheme, making it fair to wonder what classified records are hidden from public scrutiny, and if the reasons for keeping them buried are legal or political. Combine that with the FBI suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story looking an awful lot like election manipulation, and it’s also fair to wonder why Congress and the media aren’t doing a full-court press to demand answers, with the credible suspicion that it’s because Democrats and “Uniparty” Swamp Republicans are all in on it and confident they can get away with it.
You know, what gaslighting “fact checkers” would ridicule as a “baseless conspiracy theory” …
And that brings us to one other dimension of the story that the DSM (Duranty/Streicher Media) doesn’t want to explore too deeply, and that’s the Hunter Biden gun charges, which ironically may turn out to be a boon for gun owners if the Supreme Court’s Bruen opinion helps him beat the rap and derail an agenda. While others reported on the initial incident when Hallie Biden threw the gun away in a market trash bin, find an earlier media account than what appeared on AmmoLand that explained the story was actually significant because it meant he’d committed a felony and lied on the Form 4473 Firearms Transaction Record.
Again, showing how the “real reporters” either deliberately or unknowingly “miss the barn,” neither MSNBC nor USA Today, nor any “mainstream” outlet for that matter, will tell their readers about, much less explore in-depth, the “diversion agreement” supposedly allowing Biden to “consent to a permanent entry in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).”
A complaint filed by this correspondent seeks to determine how the Justice Department presumes to have the statutory authority to essentially invent a new class of “prohibited person” not statutorily authorized.
Another effort awaits the resolution of the plea deal implosion. Once ATF and DOJ can no longer claim “ongoing litigation” as an excuse to avoid providing documentation, a new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request can be filed to go after information that has thus far been withheld, that is for “[C]opies of law enforcement and administrative reports, communications, correspondence, and work papers, including with internal State of Delaware DOJ, the Delaware State Police, any local law enforcement, and all relevant federal agencies. This includes any case handling instructions from overseeing administrative authorities and/or agencies.”
Whenever the government doesn’t want to hand over information and the DSM is either deliberately indifferent or dismissive/antagonistic to independent investigative journalism, it’s not out of line to ask, “Cui bono?”
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
even so called journalists are smart enough to know you don’t bite the hands that feed you. the same people that own biden own all the media outlets.
Biden needs to be impeached and tossed into prison along with the entire Biden crime syndicate and Biden family over the age of 18…. Of course it will never happen because of Democrat corruption.
where was the supportive media with the vindictive prosecution a couple years ago?
“f” the media industrial complex and all their minions. this bastard is a criminal and should spend quite a few years in the grey bar hotel.
Never looked for that.
So the fact that we have video evidence showing that you did illegal things doesn’t make a difference because what matters is that it is all based on President Trump trying to make an example of you out of political revenge? They don’t even realize that they are saying that Hunter has a different set of rules than we do. Would the ATF call the president to see how a case against us should be handled? Hell no, they would fine us, lock us up, make us felons, add us to the NICS list and the president would never hear… Read more »
My wife says YEP! that would be no surprise to her and she called the same thing when he measured the drapes. I am still in fear that the bull dyke/man Michele O’bummer might be in there too and that the blacks would vote for her just because she is black, and the women would vote for her just because she is a woman and they would get her elected just like they did the 2nd worst and first Muslim president in America’s history, her husband. Uncle Joe even beat out him and Jimmy in my book for destroying America.… Read more »