Conservatives call for charges against Biden after Trump indictment
Steven Nelsont March 31, 2023
WASHINGTON — Thursday’s indictment of former President Donald Trump has set a precedentenabling Republican prosecutorsto seek criminal charges against President Biden, conservative legal experts told The Post Friday.
“All bets are off. You can expect grand jury indictments of leftist politicians like Biden,[former House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and [Senate Majority Leader Chuck] Schumer as surely as night follows day,” said Tom Fitton, president of the conservative legal group Judicial Watch.
“You can be sure that there areprosecutors across Florida and Texas right nowwho are looking for a state law hook into the Biden family,” he added. “And if they’re not, they’re not doing their jobs.”
Trump, 76, is the first former president to face criminal charges as he seeks a 2024 rematch against Biden. The sealed indictment reportedly stems from a novel document-falsification theory pushed by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg regarding Trump’s 2016 hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
“Republicans need to learn how to take off the glovesand put on the brass knuckles and break glass jaws — politically and legally, not physically,” Mike Davis, a former chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee and president of the Article III Project, told The Post.
“If New York can turn a routine settlement of a business dispute seven years ago into a felony, I thinkour Republican AGs and DAs should get creative,” added Davis, who briefly worked as a federal prosecutor before clerking for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. “Two wrongs don’t make it right,but it makes it even.
“You just need probable cause. A grand jury can indict a ham sandwich. We just saw that in New York. And the Bidens actually committed real crimes. These are real crimes that the Bidens committed. There is smoking gun evidence that the Bidens were corruptly and illegally on Chinese and Ukrainian oligarchs’ payrolls.”
The recognition of the likely fallout from the Trump charges — and the sea change to US legal norms — spanned the political spectrum.
“The Republicans will be furiouslyseeking revengeand may try to pin Biden with something,” predicted left-wing social commentatorNoam Chomsky, a professor emeritus at MIT, though the 94-year-old added that some cases — such as war crimes charges — would still be considered off-limits to partisans. (Why did he mention war crimes when speaking about Bidan?)
Trump ally Joe Arpaio, the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., said he believes the legal system has a “double standard” against Republicans such as Trump, who in 2017 gave his first pardon to the controversial lawman in a criminal contempt case.
“The criminal justice system is not always fair, believe me, and this is an example,” Arpaio said.
“This sets a little precedent,” said the ex-sheriff of America’s fourth-most-populous county. “Now the word is out that you can go and indict an ex-president and a current president andtheyopened another door. But now everybody’s going to flex their muscles and use this case.So now we’re gonna threaten all presidents or ex presidents.”
(These warnings are biblical:Hosea 8:7“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.”)
https://nypost.com/2023/03/31/gop-calls-for-biden-charges-after-trump-indictment/