Equal Justice, Part One
I ended my last essay (titled “January 6th Revisited,” which was posted on this website on October 14, 2022) with a rhetorical question: “What ever happened to equal justice under the law”? That question was prompted by the vastly different way the January 6th Capitol rioters were treated in comparison to the “George Floyd rioters” that ran amuck and unchecked throughout the summer of 2020, the vastly different way the George Floyd officers were treated in comparison to the way the officer who shot and killed protestor Ashley Babbitt was treated, as well as the different way that the January 6th right wing “conspirators” were treated in comparison to the way that leftist involvement in January 6th (and there WAS some) was ignored. With all of that as a starting point, I’d like to take a look at a plethora of other examples.
Let’s start with the flagrantly unfair treatment of United States President Number 45, Donald Trump. Why start with Mr. Trump? Simply because he has long been a “lightning rod” for the leftist/liberal/progressive cabal, but many of the things that he was accused of, and endlessly “investigated” for, were also done by the other side with impunity. When the leftist/liberal/progressives were involved, they remained unscathed by indictment, accusation or even criticism.
First, consider that in the Democrat Party’s strident efforts to sideline a Trump candidacy in 2024, they have fixated on “mishandling of classified documents” which, until the Democrats started this nonsense, were under Trump’s purview to declassify as he saw fit, and were NOT, at that time, under subpoena or investigation. Compare this to the undisputed fact that during her stint as the Head of State in the Obama Administration, Hillary Clinton constantly carried out classified communications on an unsecured, and ILLEGAL, private computer server, for the obvious purpose of avoiding scrutiny on her many and varied illegal activities. Recall also that, in a bald faced attempt to hide her actions, she deleted 30,000 emails WHILE UNDER SUBPOENA. THIRTY THOUSAND! UNDER SUBPOENA! And, when challenged about this, her response was, incredulously: “I only deleted personal/trivial emails – TAKE MY WORD FOR IT.” TAKE MY WORD FOR IT! Since when does that constitute an adequate legal defense? By the way, while writing this, I’ve just learned that the DOJ, under instruction from the appointed “special master,” has quietly CONCLUDED THE “INVESTIGATION” AND DROPPED ALL POTENTIAL CHARGES.
Next, consider the ridiculous allegations regarding Trump’s 2016 phone call to the Ukrainian President as “meddling” in a political opponent’s campaign. Digging up dirt on political rivals is NOT “meddling.” It is known as “opposition research” and is used by both sides of the political spectrum time and time again, when ever damning information becomes available. It may be distasteful, but it is a fact of American political life, and is accepted and used by both sides. What is NOT acceptable, however, is what the Democrats did when they used a fabricated and false “dossier” to justify prying into the Trump campaign. And the so-called “Steel Dossier” was PROVEN to have been financed BY THE DEMOCRAT PARTY via the DNC law firm Perkins Coie. Where is the investigation of this?
Next, there’s the allegations that Trump attempted to “obstruct justice” by not cooperating with the myriad of investigations of him. Last I looked, the Constitution protects an individual’s right to avoid self incrimination. On the other hand, the completely illegal “tarmac meeting” between Bill Clinton and Attorney General Loretta Lynch during the private server investigation, was glossed over. During that meeting, Bill Clinton was briefed on what Hillary would need to say to investigators to avoid indictment or even censure. Amazingly, the most critical comment I’ve read concerning the “tarmac meeting” in the New York Times, was that it was “bad optics.”… BAD OPTICS?… BAD OPTICS MY BEHIND!… IT WAS A CRIME.
Next consider the imagined Russian “collusion” of Donald Trump narrative. Recall, that NO EVIDENCE supporting this allegation was EVER presented. That narrative was front and center in our media for much of campaign 2016. On the other hand, the actual collusion of Vice President Biden with China, amply documented, was completely ignored: Millions of dollars went to Hunter Biden from China, while Dad was Vice President, in order to encourage a lais·sez-faire US policy toward China, in which our government overlooked China’s massive theft of intellectual property.
Then, consider the accusations thrown at Trump for questioning the results of the 2020 election. His suspicions, not completely without basis (Google Bedford’s Law and view Dinesh D’Souza’s “2000 Mules” documentary), of election fraud, raised howls of outrage from Democrats. Completely forgotten by the Democrats AND the media, is the fact that Hillary Clinton did exactly that in the early aftermath of her failed 2016 campaign. Hillary and the DNC immediately filed a number of law suits and the outcome was challenged in numerous jurisdictions. It seems to have been forgotten, but Ms. Clinton did not concede the election for seven days.
In Part Two, we’ll look at a number of other miscarriages of justice that do not involve President Trump.