Campaigns are changing, thanks to a tactic called “law.” The Biden administration is using federal resources and taxpayer dollars to carry out the same kind of mudslinging that has traditionally been carried out by political campaigns.
That’s the focus of the latest episode Drill downhosts Peter Schweitzer and Eric Eggers get into the weeds and discuss how the Biden administration is coordinating all four legal charges against former President Donald Trump, Biden’s opponent in the November presidential election. I showed you what I was doing.
The Government Accountability Institute (GAI) has created a chronology of events that Eric shares on his podcast, which perhaps indicates the extent of the White House’s involvement in these “independent” prosecutions. As we discussed in a previous podcast about how Biden acted; weaponized federal agency For Democrats’ turnout efforts, spending taxpayer money on political prosecutions is a blatant effort to undermine political opponents.
Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis, who is prosecuting Trump on election interference charges in Georgia, also appeared at last week’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. She fraudulently hired her boyfriend Nathan Wade (at a cost of $625,000) to handle the day-to-day operations of the case. Wade visited the White House twice, in May 2022 and November 2022, and met with staff from the White House Office of Counsel, not Justice Department officials. Wade was later forced to resign from his position by a judge.
In April 2022, the Biden White House leaked a story to the United States. new york times It’s showing Biden.”I confided in my inner circleIt’s a complaint about Attorney General Merrick Garland who didn’t throw the book at Trump. Four months later, President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago mansion was raided by the FBI at Garland’s direction.
Schweitzer said another interesting coincidence occurred in December 2022. Matthew Colangeloannounced that he was leaving the Justice Department to take a job with the Manhattan Prosecutor’s Office.
As Schweitzer points out, while the Manhattan prosecutor’s office is important, this would be a “major departure” for the Justice Department’s third-highest-ranking official. “Why would Joe Biden make such a move, other than that he wanted direct input into New York prosecutors?” Schweitzer asks.
Two other members of the New York prosecution team, Susan Hoffinger and Joshua Steinglass, were reportedly involved in a previous trial on charges of conspiracy, tax evasion, and falsification of business records by the Trump Organization. ing. times.
Mr. Colangelo would later give opening statements for the prosecution at Mr. Trump’s trial in Manhattan.
All of this “has the imprint of the White House,” Schweitzer added.
The weight of all these prosecutions, especially the order in New York that stopped Trump from leaving the state while the case was ongoing, is that Trump has campaigned for president and amassed a huge amount of “earned media” among the wealthy. This directly impedes the ability to He participated in rallies all over the country.
“It’s a wicked but brilliant strategy,” Schweizer said. Because even if Mr. Trump were to win all the lawsuits, he would still have to spend tens of millions of dollars to fight them all. This is the classic purpose of law.
And it’s being done with taxpayer money, Eggers said, and the Biden administration is also using federal agencies to boost turnout among targeted Democratic voters.
Schweitzer and Eggers note that when Trump was president, he did not launch politically motivated prosecutions against his 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton.
“How far are we from the government’s standards?” Schweitzer said.
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