Joe Biden Openly Pushing for the DOJ to Prosecute Donald Trump – Opinion

Do you recall the entire impeachment of the president because the former one tried to use his official power to force a probe into Biden’s family corruption using the office? The current president is Joe Biden and he has gone one step further. He used the official power of his office in order to press for the investigation into the family corruption. prosecutionDonald Trump

When does the impeachment begin?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course, but there is a new report confirming what I’m sure many suspected: Biden wants the DOJ to criminally charge Trump for something related to January 6th.

Biden has confided to his inner circle that he believes Trump is a threat to democracy and should be prosecuted, per two people familiar with his commentshttps://t.co/NouqjYUG0S

— Thomas Kaplan (@thomaskaplan) April 2, 2022

The attorney general’s deliberative approach has come to frustrate Democratic allies of the White House and, at times, President Biden himself. Two people who were familiar with the comments claim that Mr. Biden confessed to his circle late last year that he thought former President Donald J. Trump was an affront to democracy. While the president did not express his dissatisfaction directly to Mr. Garland at any time, he told two people that he told them privately that he wanted Mr. Garland be less like a pompous judge and more like someone who can take decisive action in the wake of the January 6th events.

I wouldn’t believe for a second that Biden hasn’t actually expressed his frustrations directly to AG Merrick Garland. But even if that’s true, this report was written for a reason. Leaks don’t just occur randomly, especially when they aren’t clearly designed to hurt the person they portend to quote. In this case, Biden and his handlers obviously want this message to get to Garland — otherwise, this never makes it to print. So, while that might not be a “direct” demand of the DOJ, it’s certainly meant to accomplish the same thing, which is to pressure Garland into pulling the trigger on prosecuting Trump.

In that vein, it’s an abuse of power, at least by the standards Democrats and the media breathlessly established during the last administration. Trump was constantly accused of corruptly intervening at the DOJ, but now that it’s Biden doing the pressuring, it’ll be treated as no big deal.

To clarify my view, though, the president does have statutory authority over the DOJ, and there is no actual “independence” involved in the department. That’s a facade the left uses anytime there’s a Republican in the White House in order to try to keep their gravy train of corruption rolling. With that said, despite claims to the contrary (one occurs in the first paragraph of the above Times article), Biden has not made the DOJ “independent.” One look at how the White House coordinated with the DOJ to push for the “domestic terrorism” letter targeting parents at school board meetings shows that. Garland clearly took direction from the Administration in regards to suing Republican state over election security laws.

The question is still open as to what Trump should be charged by the DOJ. To this point, there’s been no actual evidence that the former president planned or directed any of the events of January 6th. His words that day didn’t call for violence, but for peaceful protesting. It seems absurd to suggest that Trump might be charged with not responding quickly enough, as Liz Cheney often suggested. If that’s a criminal action, it opens the door for basically every president to be prosecuted for some decision or another. Besides, Trump did nothing to obstruct any response to January 6th and he wouldn’t have had any involvement with the goings-on of law enforcement that day.

However, it boils down into Biden using his office to pursue his political adversary. I’ve been assured that’s the gravest sin a president can commit. Unfortunately, the rules don’t apply to Democrats. Trump will be stronger if he is pursued, particularly on criminal charges. It’s a stupid play, but this is Joe Biden we are talking about.