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This week's look into conservative movement cornersvisits an alternate universe wherethe politicized FBI and the Justice Department have become unfairly frenzied. It was like persecuting former President Donald Trump after turning a blind eye to Hunter Biden's laptop and Hillary Clinton's missing emails.
Monday On , federal officials executed a search warrant against Trump's home in Florida. This was approved by theDepartment of Justice, and based on probable cause, a judge parked the crime in Mar-a-Lago. The investigation appears to be related to Trump's handling of classified material. According to Trump's lawyers,late Monday hebrought home about a dozen boxes from a members-only club in West Palm Beach.. Rather than discuss themerits of thiscase, some Trump supportersraiseda very unusual butnot unprecedented case. was.— The nature of presidential administrations investigating the actions of former commanders-in-chief. Immediately, many, consider how the FBI investigated andcleared, a scathing double standard at work. Decided to be. The investigation facing the Secretary of State, son of the President and potential target of a tax suit, Hunter Biden, appears to be progressing at a glacial pace.
2024 Even Trump's potential challengers over the 2020 Trump presidential nomination have made him a victim, making his supporters outraged, and the Biden administration holding to one standard to protect its friends and threats. joined efforts to hold separate standards to eliminate To Joe Biden's early re-election bid. “The MAL raid is a further escalation of federal weaponization against the administration’s political opponents, with people like Hunter Biden being treated with child gloves,” said Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. Tweeted about the federal government's visit. Mar-a-Lago. Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo added:
The Trump trajectory did not invent this kind of misdirection, but honed it in important ways. The power of Hoabautismwas fully demonstrated during the Cold War.The Soviets invoked irrelevant American sins to answer the brutal policies imposed from Moscow.Whataboutism Note Line The State Department archives of the period contain perhaps the most famous and accurate returnee from a Russian diplomat. To this day, Putin deploys his own variation, claiming that his country's conduct is on par with Washington's.
Rhetorically speaking, it's hard to come up with an honest answer. Becausehorebautismturns the conversation away from the essence and toward talent. Due to our limited knowledge of the facts and applicable law, there is no real way to determine the criminality of someone like Trump or Hunter Biden, who are both unindicted. Meanwhile, Clinton has been acquitted by some of her harshest critics. They're just trying to get you wrong.
This might work. Facts represent potential problems for Trump as they are understood so far. If he fled with classified material on his last day at the White House, it would clearly be against the law. It could have been claimed to have been, but lost its authority at noon on January 20, 2021. Even as he begins his 2024 comeback, he is still not above the law.For years, the hallmark of Trump's rallies was the chant of "Rock". over Clinton's email system in line with the practices of her predecessor and State Department regulations. Suddenly, the profession of law and order supremacy is a forgotten footnote, a reminder of how brief Republican memory is when new facts inconvenience old ones.
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