Donald Trump, often referred to as the King, has run in two divisive Republican primaries and has stood as a candidate in three general elections. He’s been elected twice, and recently, the Republican Party secured a Congress.
In a different vein, former President Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign wasn’t conventional. He largely stayed out of the public eye, spending much of his time at home. Instead of leading his campaign, he relied heavily on Democratic insiders, donors, and friendly media.
No states with Republican leadership have attempted to remove Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris from the 2024 ballots. Meanwhile, 25 states led by Democrats sought to take Trump off theirs.
In 2021, Biden’s Justice Department and the FBI conducted a raid on Trump’s residence. Trump faced indictment despite only around 102 documents being retrieved out of roughly 14,000 classified ones taken. Interestingly, Biden’s various holdings of classified documents did not prompt similar actions against him. I mean, all of Biden’s documents were stored in less secure locations compared to Mar-a-Lago, and he had taken them without any significant repercussions for three decades. Unlike Trump, he didn’t have executive privilege at the time to declassify them.
Special Counsel Robert Hur determined that Biden had deleted files but opted not to press charges, citing Biden’s lack of fitness for trial.
In the 2024 cycle, political figures who previously supported Biden’s 2020 candidacy seemed to have orchestrated a covert effort to remove him from the re-election ticket, acting against his wishes. Abruptly, without a delegate vote, they named Harris as the presumptive nominee. Interestingly, Queen Harris didn’t receive even one delegate vote during the troubling 2020 primaries.
During the 2020 election cycle, Trump didn’t publicly criticize the Justice Department in reference to his opponent, Biden. In fact, while he was in office, the Justice Department didn’t indict any political rivals or past presidents.
By contrast, the Biden administration played a role in coordinating 91 indictments against Trump, a rival from both the past and possibly future. Coincidentally, just three days after Trump announced his re-election bid on November 15, 2022, Jack Smith was appointed as special counsel to investigate Trump. Oddly, the same day, Georgia prosecutor Nathan Wade, who is pursuing Trump, consulted with a Biden White House adviser.
On that day, Matthew Colangelo, the leading prosecutor in the case against Trump by Letitia James, unexpectedly resigned from the Justice Department. He will now head Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg’s case against Trump.
During the 2020 election, Biden’s team gathered 51 “intelligence officials” who falsely claimed that Hunter Biden’s damaging laptop was Russian disinformation. Later, the authenticity of that laptop was confirmed, yet it was suppressed by the FBI.
Moreover, the FBI during Biden’s presidency engaged with platforms like Twitter and Facebook to hide reports that could validate the laptop’s existence.
There’s this left-wing perspective that frames President Trump’s constitutional right to pardon as a royal decree. Over his tenure, Trump has issued around 1,700 pardons, which include nearly 1,500 related to the January 6 protests. That’s about 200 fewer than Obama’s records.
Biden, however, has pardoned an estimated 4,245 individuals in just four years, most of which occurred without his direct oversight. Under both the Obama and Biden administrations, those on the left who broke laws alongside White House allies didn’t face felony charges. For example, CIA Director John Brennan confessed to lying to Congress twice, and James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, admitted to lying under oath as well.
Interestingly, FBI Director James Comey claimed he didn’t remember certain events while testifying multiple times before Congress. The former national security adviser John Bolton was even warned by a federal judge for jeopardizing national security by deleting sensitive documents. Yet, none of these officials were indicted by the Obama or Biden administrations.
On the other hand, Trump’s advisors Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were arrested and convicted for ignoring Congressional subpoenas. Leaders like former Attorneys General Eric Holder and Merrick Garland faced no repercussions for doing the same.
It raises questions about the use of executive power. For instance, Obama authorized actions that included drone strikes on American citizens abroad. I wonder—could this be a form of monarchy? On a related note, Biden’s special counsel, Jack Smith, seems to monitor the phone records of his opponents in the Senate.
So, why do some Democrats insist that Trump embodies monarchy? Perhaps it’s because they’ve lost substantial political ground in Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court, leading to frustrations manifesting as protests. It’s all a bit ironic, don’t you think?
