Faith in DOJ plummets as Biden, pardoning Hunter, joins Trump in denouncing the department

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/faith-doj-plummets-biden-pardoning-
hunter-joins-trump-denouncing-department

Let’s face it, trust in most of our government institutions has utterly
collapsed.

Many people don’t have faith in the FDA, the DOD, HUD, Homeland Security,
the health agencies, and the list goes on. And they don’t trust the media
to deliver basic facts about Washington without bias and blunders.

These sentiments have basically been growing for the last 60 years, since
the lies about Vietnam merged with the lies about Watergate and forced
Richard Nixon to resign.

BIDEN, TRUMP BOTH RIP DOJ AFTER PRESIDENT PARDONS HUNTER

But the most sensitive federal agency, everyone would agree, is the
Justice Department, including the FBI. Donald Trump has been attacking
these agencies for years (along with the "fake news"), accusing them of
politically persecuting him. He campaigned outside courthouses by telling
reporters the prosecutors and judges were awful people who were out to get
him solely because he was the leading candidate to win back the White
House.

Joe Biden, by breaking his promise not to pardon his son Hunter, did more
than just lie. He ripped his own DOJ for "selectively and unfairly
prosecuting" his son.

I used to patrol the endless hallways of the J. Edgar Hoover building as
the Justice Department beat reporter. On the criminal side, it is supposed
to be independent, since Justice often winds up investigating the
administration. Back in the day it was filled with fair-minded career
prosecutors who pursued legitimate leads regardless of party.

In saying that Hunter Biden was singled out for harsh treatment, the
outgoing president is making the same argument as the incoming president,
that the department is badly biased. Little wonder that so many people
don’t trust DOJ.

All Biden had to do when repeatedly asked about a pardon or commutation
was "I’m not going to discuss hypotheticals." Then at least he wouldn’t
have the lying part.

There is no question that Pam Bondi, despite some roughing up, will be the
next attorney general, having precisely the experience (Florida AG, career
prosecutor) that Matt Gaetz so blatantly lacked. She is not going to blow
up the department.

But in picking Kash Patel to run the FBI – and ignoring that Chris Wray is
not through with his 10-year term – Trump is sending a very different
message. And this isn’t some dark secret. It’s in the nominee’s own words.

TRUMP HIT FOR HIRING LOYALISTS LIKE PAM BONDI: DOESN’T EVERY PRESIDENT DO
THAT?

Patel has vowed to shut down the bureau’s Washington headquarters. He said
last year on Steve Bannon’s podcast, which we played on "Media Buzz": "We
will go out and find the conspirators…not just in government, but in the
media.… Whether it’s criminally or civilly, we’ll figure that out."

In his 2022 book "Government Gangsters," Patel names 60 people as part of
the deep state, "a cabal of unelected tyrants…the most dangerous threat
to our democracy." The press has dubbed this an enemies list.

It includes the aforementioned Bill Barr (for blocking his appointment),
NSC chairman John Bolton (an "arrogant control freak"), and Defense
Secretary Mark Esper (who tried to fire him).

Also on the list, as recounted by the New Republic:

Joe Biden.

Kamala Harris.

Hillary Clinton.

Merrick Garland.

Samantha Power, who now runs the Agency for International Development.

Former Obama officials James Clapper; John Brennan; Peter Strzok (who
trashed Trump in texts with his FBI girlfriend, Lisa Page), Andrew McCabe
(FBI deputy director), Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch.

A striking number are Donald Trump’s own appointees: Pat Cippolone (his
White House counsel). Gina Haspel (his CIA director). Mark Esper. Charles
Kupperman (his deputy national security adviser).

TRUMP DROPPED MATT GAETZ AFTER COMPLAINING ABOUT HIGH POLITICAL COST OF
DEFENDING HIM

Cassidy Hutchinson (Mark Meadows’ top aide, who criticized Trump in her
testimony before the House Jan. 6 committee).

It’s a pretty big list. And having worked for Trump hardly provides
immunity.

Patel would have his work cut out for him, though he’d have to get a
career prosecutor to submit a wiretap request or search warrant to the
courts.

Meanwhile, many Democratic lawmakers are hitting their party’s president
pretty hard for the Hunter pardon, in interviews with the Times.

Colorado Congressman Jason Crow: He promised he would not do this. I think
it will make it harder for us going forward when we talk about upholding
democracy."

Washington Congresswoman Marie Gluesenkamp Perez: "The president made the
wrong decision. No family should be above the law."

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet said the Biden move "put personal interest
ahead of duty and further erodes Americans’ faith that the justice system
is fair and equal for all." And his late dropout from the race was also
"putting his personal interest ahead of his responsibility to the
country."

Vermont Sen. Peter Welch: "President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter is,
as the action of a loving father, understandable — but as the action of
our nation’s chief executive, unwise."

Michigan Sen. Gary Peters: "Wrong."

Pretty bracing stuff.

Some progressives defended Biden, such as Texas Congresswoman Jasmine
Crockett: "Way to go Joe!" She said a 34-count convicted felon is about to
walk into the White House, perhaps missing the news that Jack Smith has
dropped the charges.

On "Morning Joe" yesterday, Mika Brzezinski, while saying she wished Biden
hadn’t promised no pardon, took on the coverage: "You look at what has
happened on the Trump side, especially if you even parallel pardons that
Trump has done himself, it’s just always so — it seems so hysterically
imbalanced!"

Joe Scarborough spoke of "the frustration that many Democrats are having
on the New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, a lot
of mainstream organizations blowing this up to the size that they believe
is really out of proportion, given everything Donald Trump has done in the
past and what he’s doing right now."

Still, the two presidents have wound up in the same place in their view of
the Justice Department as partisan and politicized.

One fascinating tidbit dug up by the Times: When Biden had Trump to the
White House, according to three sources, and listened to his familiar
grievances about the biased DOJ – the president-elect "surprised his host
by sympathizing with the Biden family’s own troubles with the department."

Conversation

nomdeguerre882
4 December, 2024

Two things are happening now, 1) no one believes Democrats any longer and
2) more people are seeing that President Trump was telling the truth. And
I don’t think Biden’s pardons are going to hold up against a legal
challenge. The Founders never intended the pardons to used to cover up
crimes.
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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

The disease known as Kamala Harris has been effectively treated and
eradicated.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.

Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

[Siri Cruise]

Let’s face it, trust in most of our government institutions has utterly
collapsed.
Many people don’t have faith in the FDA, the DOD, HUD, Homeland Security,
the health agencies, and the list goes on. And they don’t trust the media
to deliver basic facts about Washington without bias and blunders.

Politicians terrify voters to get elected. People do not trust FDA
etc because politicians like Don Fatso have been attacking it with
lies, fear, and loathing.