How Do We Get Back to Equal Justice Before the Law?

The liberty principle for this Freedom Friday is the need for equal justice before the law. Former President Donald Trump was arrested and indicted today in Atlanta, Georgia, for challenging the 2020 presidential election.  This is Trump’s fourth indictment in the past five months.

Trump was charged with violations of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO Act), a law made to indict mobsters and gangsters. Charges were made for making telephone calls to legislators, encouraging people to watch television programs, and other such things.

Meanwhile, evidence continues to arise due to the corruption of then-Vice President Joe Biden and his family. It appears that Trump’s first impeachment came for questioning the Biden corruption. Victor Davis Hanson explained the situation this way. 

Despite years of Biden family and media disinformation, we are finally learning that President Joe Biden really did fire Ukrainian prosecutor Victor Shokin for looking into state corruption involving the oil company Burisma and his son Hunter Biden – and ultimately Joe Biden himself.

As vice president, Biden, in his own words, bragged that he had threatened to cancel the deliverance of American foreign aid to Ukraine unless Shokin was dismissed.

So what is Congress to do now – unimpeach and exonerate an innocently impeached Donald Trump, and instead impeach a guilty Biden for essentially the same allegations?

After all, the Left redefined the impeachment bar in 2019 as leveraging foreign aid to Ukraine to benefit one’s political career.

And that is exactly what Joe Biden did to ensure his son could continue to raise millions for the Biden family with foreign governments, while being shielded from political consequences.

An impeached Trump also was accused of using the power of government to go after his likely 2020 presidential rival by suggesting that Joe Biden and his family were corrupt and should be investigated by Ukrainian officials for fraud and bribery.

Despite Joe Biden’s denials, Trump was right: There was plenty of evidence to link unwarranted Ukrainian payoffs going into Biden family coffers.

So Trump in 2019 had good reasons to ensure that none of the Bidens was still burrowed deeply into the Ukrainian payoff machine.

In contrast, Biden had far less grounds to unleash the full powers of government against his probable 2024 rival, Trump.

After explaining several more examples of how Biden is treated much better than is Trump, Hanson concluded his article as follows:

Finally, Joe Biden can no longer work a full day. He mutters. He stumbles. He serially lies.

He hijacks solemn occasions commemorating national tragedies by trying to one-up the grieving with his own self-absorbed stories – most of them irrelevant and narcissistic half-truths.

If a cognitively and criminally challenged Biden cannot finish his term, we will finally learn the full story of 15 years of Biden family corruption.

The Bidens will lose the only impediment – Joe Biden’s political machinations – left in the way of an honest, full-blown felony investigation into what is likely the most corrupt presidential family in American history.

Trump is in a dangerous situation. Not only does he have 91 charges against him – any one of them would put him in prison for years. Even though his charges are nonsense and would most likely be overturned by higher courts, such cases would take years to work through the court system.

In addition, Trump is in danger due to assassination. The secret combinations that are controlling our government will attempt assassination if they cannot win in the courts or in an election. The only course they would have left is to kill him. If he is imprisoned in Georgia, he could be killed there – several people have died there in recent months. Then there are numerous foreign nations that would kill him if given the chance, such as Iran, Russia, or China.