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Let’s admit that every reporter in DC knows but most won’t say for fear of falling out of favor with the bothsides rules of official DC: there is a two-tiered Justice System. One for Democrats, in which the most exacting focus on conflicts of interest are followed, often going …
2/ well beyond not only what the law or established norms require but sometimes even basic logic. Meanwhile for Republicans most of these rules simply don’t apply. Ever. Does anyone think that a newly installed President Trump in 2025 would leave in place US Attorneys …
3/ investigating matters tied to Trump or the Trump family for years into his administration? The very idea is absurd. In fact the Trump campaign is openly running on plans to thoroughly politicize federal law enforcement and target his enemies. Openly. When actual GOP …
4/ crimes are uncovered or in some cases not even uncovered but simply done in public and widely known we’re treated to lengthy debates about whether open and shut criminal cases should even be charged, then whether Republicans should immediately be pardoned.
5/ The entire highprofile political system operates in an open & essentially bottomless world of Republican grievance in which allowing the law to function in its normal manner with respect to high profile Republicans is treated as inherently questionable and sensible people …
6/ agree to pretend that GOP claims of “weaponziation” and a “two tiered Justice system” stacked against them isn’t comical and preposterous on its face. None of this is new. Everybody knows this. Every byline in essentially any publication knows this. I was tempted to say …
7/ unless it’s the daily caller or the free beacon or whatever other publication. But the truth is that they know it too. It’s simply worth saying this in the open because the basically endless lying about it starts to seep in after a while, even for sensible people.
8/ A brief addendum: It basically goes without saying that Hunter Biden wouldn't have gotten in any legal hot water at all had it not been for the scrutiny brought on him by his father's prominence and presidential campaign. But "hey, most people get away with it" has ...
9/ never been a legitimate defense. It seems clear that he broke at least some laws or at least that there was enough evidence to bring charges against him. How serious the violations were and whether they can be proven is what we're going to find other. Is that fair?
10/ Well, the law is pretty clear that it is. And again, most people get away with it is simply not a defense or an excuse that our system recognizes. But note that this is precisely the situation with fmr President Trump and his fraud case in NYC. Clearly Trump got away ...
11/ this kind of stuff forever and I'm sure other people have to. It was the scrutiny brought about by his presidential campaign, the Stormy Daniels story and all the stuff we remember that put this in front of first federal and then state prosecutors. And it's pretty ...
12/ clearly a crime just on its face. Note that the guy who helped Trump do it has already done serious jail time. And yet otherwise sensible people routinely treat this is sort of the criminal justice runt of the Trump indictment litter, as though it's somehow ...
13/ ungentlemanly to charge Trump with a crime guys like him usually get away with. For both of them, that's just how life works. Leona Helmsley didn't get charged with anything before she became tabloid fodder either. But again, it's only part of the story for Trump.
14/ And that's because just the normal law functioning is controversial when it's Republicans.
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