by Paul Craig Roberts, Paul Craig Roberts:
Remember the influence-peddling accusations against Biden’s brother James that could go nowhere because of the Garland Justice (sic) Department’s non-interest? Well, James is at the head of the line in the blanket Biden family pardon:
“I am exercising my power under the Constitution to pardon James B. Biden, [his wife] Sara Jones Biden, [first sister] Valerie Biden Owens, [her husband] John T. Owens, and [first brother] Francis W. Biden,” the outgoing president said, adding that the “pardons should not be mistaken as an acknowledgment that they engaged in any wrongdoing.” https://www.rt.com/news/611335-biden-family-pardon/
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Biden’s excuse is that he has to protect his family from Trump. He accuses Trump of doing to him what he has been doing to Trump, Trump’s attorneys, and Trump’s supporters:
“My family has been subjected to unrelenting attacks and threats, motivated solely by a desire to hurt me – the worst kind of partisan politics. Unfortunately, I have no reason to believe these attacks will end.” What Biden is describing is what the corrupt Biden regime did to Trump and his supporters.
I bet Merrick Garland and his criminal gang at the DOJ and especially the gang of crooks that comprise the FBI, and, of course, the war criminal Blinken are pissed the pardon didn’t include them. Biden pardoned convicted murderers on death row, but not the criminals that murdered the rule of law and violated international law.
The Establishment and the Establishment’s RINO Republican allies will try to convince Trump to be magnanimous and to “stand tall” unlike the Democrats. At the inauguration the Establishment quoted Lincoln to him “with malice toward none.” In other words, don’t hold government officials accountable for weaponizing law.
Let’s be sure we understand what it means to be magnanimous to criminals who weaponized law in order to destroy political opponents. It means that US government officials sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States failed to do so and violated their oath of office. These officials weaponized law and used it as a weapon against Trump and his supporters. And now Trump is supposed to let them walk free. What this means is that Trump will have created an American Aristocracy that has immunity from accountability to law. A precedent for the unaccountability of government officials will be established.
We have no guarantee that the members of the Trump administration are different from members of other administrations, and are not out for their careers, not to make America great again. The kind of people Washington produces fight for their benefit, not for the benefit of others. This was certainly the case in his first term. His supporters hope that this time he has found people who share his commitment to America.
If the Establishment makes inroads into Trump’s second term, Trump’s supporters will be maneuvered into supporting Trump “at all cost,” because “we have to support the President.” What this would mean is that Trump will not be held accountable if his administration folds itself into the Establishment. The trouble with Capitalism is that it breeds a culture, the guiding light of which is money uber alles. The temptation is there to meld with the Establishment that can make you rich.
There are endless numbers of government officials all over the world who sell out their country and their fellow citizens for money.
Trump’s inaugural speech was reassuring in many respects. But there were discordant elements. Getting the government under control is conflated with creating two new government bureaucracies, and the restoration of economic growth is conflated with expanding US territory. The main agenda of bureaucracies is to expand. If Trump wants Greenland and Panama, how can he object to Greater Israel’s expansion into Syria and Russia’s possession of Donbas?
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