Because he’s a Democrat. If everything else were the same, but it was Trump rather than Biden in the crosshairs . . . well . . . you know. . . .
It’s just a rhetorical question, of course. Biden is a Democrat, that’s all you need to know. Indeed, only with a Democrat could you find — immediately after a congressional committee lays out just a portion of its evidence of the Biden family’s peddling of Joe Biden’s political influence to the tune of millions of dollars from corrupt, anti-American regimes — the New York Times running a report under the headline: “House Republican Report Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by President Biden.”
Our politicized, two-tiered justice system evolves seamlessly from our doggedly partisan media, which in the Trump era abandoned even the posture of feigning objectivity.
Some friends of mine are on the opinion-pages side of a new news outlet, The Messenger, and asked me to contribute a column about whether there should be a special counsel on the Biden influence-peddling scandal. I approached it as a “What if . . . ?” proposition, as in: What if this were Trump:
Some people say nothing is certain in this life. I beg to differ, and I defy anyone to show that I have this wrong: If Donald Trump were president, and one of his sons had been under investigation by his Department of Justice (DOJ) for several years with no action, and his attorney general had stubbornly declined to appoint a special counsel — lamely contending that there was no insuperable conflict of interest for the president’s Justice Department to investigate the president’s son — that would be the lead story in nearly every press outlet. The outrage in Washington would be palpable.
The rest is here.