{"id":57185,"date":"2024-06-12T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57185"},"modified":"2024-06-12T00:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T00:00:09","slug":"doj-isnt-anti-gop-got-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57185","title":{"rendered":"DOJ isn&#8217;t anti-GOP &#8230; got it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Let us all just take a deep breath while pondering a key jury verdict &#8230; and then dispel this fu**ed-up notion that the US Department of Justice is being &#8220;weaponized&#8221; for use against Republican politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter Biden, the surviving son of Democratic President Joe Biden, has been convicted by a jury of three felony counts related to his purchase of a firearm while he was abusing drugs.<\/p>\n<p>It was a federal case, meaning that DOJ prosecuted it. It&#8217;s the same DOJ run by Attorney General Merrick Garland, who this past week mounted a stern and forceful defense of his agency&#8217;s conduct.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No one is above the law,&#8221; became the mantra of the DOJ as it prosecuted Hunter Biden. It was the same mantra followed by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office achieved a conviction of Donald J. Trump on a hush money charge.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Biden conviction silence DOJ&#8217;s critics? Will they ever acknowledge publicly what most of the rest of us know, that the AG takes seriously the oath he pledged to defend the Constitution?<\/p>\n<p>I shall add that President Biden has declared that a pardon for his son <em>will not occur.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I should point out, too, that two more Democratic politicians &#8212; U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas &#8212; both have trials pending; they, too, are being prosecuted by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>This idea that jury verdicts are &#8220;rigged&#8221; and that the system is &#8220;corrupt&#8221; and &#8220;broken&#8221; just does not wash.<\/p>\n<p>The only &#8220;rigging&#8221; that has occurred within the federal system has been done by the 45th POTUS, the purveyor of the Big Lie and the man who now stands before us as a <em>convicted felon.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let us all just take a deep breath while pondering a key jury verdict &#8230; and then dispel this fu**ed-up notion that the US Department of Justice is being &#8220;weaponized&#8221; for use against Republican politicians. Hunter Biden, the surviving son of Democratic President Joe Biden, has been convicted by a jury of three felony counts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57185\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">DOJ isn&#8217;t anti-GOP &#8230; got it?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8688],"tags":[1414,8937,2505,6063],"class_list":["post-57185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-news","tag-doj","tag-hunter-biden","tag-joe-biden","tag-merrick-garland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57187,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57185\/revisions\/57187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}