Should The Bidens Be Prosecuted?

And should other Biden administration members face a jury?

We are less than a month from Trump 2.0 taking the reins. The Biden administration is, by any objective metric, leaving office under “an odor of mendacity” (the memorable phrase the Fani Willis judge used to describe Fani’s testimony) (more on Fani below).

There are, to our eyes, a number of serious cases of malfeasance that leap out re: the Biden regime. The targets of any prosecutions would likely be: (1) The Biden family; (2) Anthony Fauci and those who abetted him; and (3) Alejandro Mayorkas.

Should the Trump administration bother?

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In his weekly column at The New York Post, the excellent Michael Goodwin argues for pursuing an investigation into what is now the demonstrable lie that Joe Biden “never spoke” to his son about Hunter’s business and knew nothing about it. Goodwin posits two options going forward: a congressional inquiry or a criminal prosecution by likely AG Pam Bondi.

With the new release of photos by the National Archives, the question of whether Joe Biden lied about his involvement in his son’s business affairs is academic (really, it always was). Joe lied, his son did receive millions from Ukrainian oil company Burisma despite knowing nothing about oil, and the family did receive large sums from Chinese leaders — many of whom are pictured with Joe and Hunter in the new images.

Perhaps more salient now, however, is who else was caught up in this blatant coverup. Congressman Jamie Raskin, for instance, has a continuing role in government — and almost certainly had a role in covering for the Bidens.

So should Trump pursue this?

(“Chairman Xi, we just want to wet our beaks”)

This writer comes out on the side of a non-criminal investigation (unless something even more egregious turns up, which is possible). Joe Biden is likely to pardon his brother Jim before 20 January anyway, limiting the family’s exposure.

But as we’ve already seen, the Republican majority in the House is shaky at best, at least for now. Trump will likely face headwinds there. An inquiry in Congress could shed sunlight on the Biden family’s cheap, venal escapades, while simultaneously putting congressional Dems in defensive mode. Raskin won’t be the only one caught up in this.

(a similar view from a friend of The Ops Desk, Congressman Pete King)

Furthermore: the country wants to move on. As I mentioned the other night on the Gutfeld! show, we haven’t had a functioning executive in at least two years and likely longer (ask yourself: could a functioning executive not only allow the Afghanistan pullout to happen — but for nobody to be fired for it?).

That the nation was lied to about Joe Biden’s mental capacity is at this point irrefutable. Equally irrefutable is that the Biden family used “The Big Guy” to enrich themselves, putting American security at risk and compromising our foreign policy in ways we can only guess at. (And recall, the Big Guy was in for a percentage). This much needs to be investigated.

But enough lawfare. Expose the Bidens and their conspirators — but don’t make them martyrs.

Oh, and while we’re at it: subpoena whatever government functionary at the National Archives was sitting on these photos until the election was over.

(“Meet my son Hunter. You’ve heard the term, ‘useful idiot?’”)

You know — the National Archives that kick-started the federal investigation into classified documents being housed at Mar-a-Lago.

How is it possible that the Biden and Obama lawyers managed to bottle these photos up? On what basis? This person, and the judge that allowed it, both need to be famous.

(We’ll cover Fauci and Mayorkas in future dispatches. But let’s just say: these two worthies are far from forgotten…).

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Burned Alive In NYC

So right now the story of the unidentified woman allegedly burned alive by an illegal migrant remains a source of disbelief nationwide. The case imports all of New York’s pathologies — unchecked migration, an increasingly dangerous subway system that we’re assured is just fine, and the so-called “Daniel Penny Effect” — in which third parties simply don’t want to get involved.

But should the case be federal?

(New York’s subway/rolling psych ward)

That’s the cause NYC Mayor Eric Adams has taken up, to the bewilderment of many. Adams’s reasoning isn’t entirely clear; a charitable read is that he wants the case to move faster (as federal cases generally do), and he wants a safeguard if the accused, Sebastian Zapeta, somehow beats the case.

Readers, ignore all this — it’s noise. The state charge of Murder 1 carries a heavier sentence than a federal arson charge. Furthermore, under NY State law, if the feds were to charge Zapeta, the state wouldn’t be able to then bring their own case (New York State has a double jeopardy law that would prevent that).

So what, then, is the point?

Simply this: Adams wants to highlight New York’s continued resistance to complying with any detainer request from ICE. And he wants that in order to show Donald Trump — the source of Adams’s potential pardon for multiple corruption charges — that he is on-board with Trump’s mass deportation plans.

Of course, if he is really opposed to NYC’s sanctuary status, what Adams should do is publicly challenge the New York City Council to change that law. To date, Adams has never done that.

As usual, Adams wants it both ways. He has no stomach for a battle with the city’s progressives, while at the same time casting himself in the role of a moderate.

By trying to be all things to all people — he ends up being nothing to anybody. Other than a target for DOJ.

And a mayor hoping for a longshot pardon.

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Speaking of The Feds….

The recent complaint filed by SDNY in the murder allegedly committed by arrestee Luigi Mangione was another case we don’t need.

Now, any reader of this space knows that we have been consistently critical of Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for his virtue-signaling pantomime of a prosecutor’s office. But in this case — Big Al got it right.

Mangione does indeed qualify for the Murder 1 charge, using the terrorism subdivision. New York defines terrorism as a designated crime that is :

• Intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, OR

• Is intended to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion.

Mangione’s manifesto more than satisfies this requirement.

(Mangione mugshot. What was he doing for six months in San Francisco?)

Now, the federal case could have some usefulness in Mangione’s case, as the federal murder complaint could carry the death penalty. That lever could allow the feds to pressure Mangione to give answers to things like: (a) How did you know Thompson would be at the murder site over an hour early? (b) Where did you get the gun? (c) What were you doing in San Francisco during the period you went off the grid? (d) Who were you on the phone with on your way to the shooting? etc.

Instead, the feds file the case… and then back off and let Bragg take it?

Huh?

Readers, trust us when we tell you: this is NOT how this works. When the feds truly want a case over which they have jurisdiction, they take it. And they certainly don’t surprise everyone with an unannounced complaint and arraignment — and then hand things back to the local prosecutor.

And this idea of “parallel cases”? I don’t even know what that means. That simply can’t work. The investigators will be stepping all over each other, you could have contradictory paperwork between the cases, the procedures are different, etc.

What is the theory of that, should both cases go to trial? That Mangione will be in state court in the morning, then go over to federal court in the afternoon? Of course that won’t happen. No. If there are two criminal cases — which is extremely rare — one goes first, then the other. And bizarrely, the feds have decided Bragg will go first.

So why’d they do it?

Potentially, it was just to respond to pressure from the healthcare industry. But in this writer’s opinion, equally likely is that the feds just wanted to be in on a high profile case that went across state lines — and that they ultimately could not take the credit for.

And before you consider that to be a silly, immature motive for that the nation’s premier federal law enforcement agency would never stoop to:

Did you see how many of them showed up for that perp walk?

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However: The Federal Case Is STILL Bad News For Mangione

As widely reported, somebody in the Biden White House commuted the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal prisoners on death row last week.

That the entire thing was a pander to the Dems’ far left was evident in whose sentences were not commuted — that is, three high-profile cases that would have interfered with the White House casting the death penalty as “racist” (as per Squad member Ayanna Pressley).

Apparently, certain cases — like the one in which the entire Escobedo family was wholesale wiped out — were just not bad enough to keep the killers on death row.

Now, we doubt Biden himself signed these commutations — frankly, he doesn’t seem capable of it. So whatever unnamed entity is running America these days would not have the power to issue these orders, calling them all into legal question.

But here’s the rub: in response, president-elect Trump vowed to “vigorously pursue” the use of the federal death penalty.

Meaning: Trump’s DOJ will inherit a federal death penalty case on Mangione — one in which Trump’s DOJ is expected to play second-fiddle to Trump’s arch-nemesis, Alvin Bragg. Right.

Keep smiling while you can, Luigi. I don’t see you getting the last laugh here.

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Fani Takes A Fall

This space has been unreserved in our criticism of Fani Willis, the south’s answer to Alvin Bragg. We, along with many others, came out of the box hard on her idiotic case against Donald Trump immediately. The vindication process is now in full swing.

At this writing, Willis’s entire office has been thrown off the case, making it an “orphan” indictment; and perhaps most significant, a judge just allowed Georgia’s legislature to subpoena Fani’s records in relation to the case.

(Fulton County Prosecutor Fani Willis. Hope she has a skill to fall back on….)

As we have advocated all along, this is what needed to happen (Georgia AG Chris Carr still has not pursued such a case — likely for political reasons) (we believe he wants to run for Governor and needs the Fulton County vote). Phone, email, and text messages will destroy Willis and Wade — an could lead to further embarrassment to the $1.5 billion dollar woman, Kamala Harris.

Recall, it was reportedly Kamala that either Wade, Willis, or both met with at the White House before the Georgia RICO on Donald Trump came down. Why? What did they need from the Biden White House?

Further: texts and emails will almost certainly demonstrate that Willis and Wade had an ongoing relationship — opening them up to multiple charges of perjury and even public corruption charges.

These two legal geniuses will be lucky to keep their law licenses. But that said, however, the question remains: Will anyone prosecute these two, however clear the evidence?

Governor Kemp? AG Carr?

Hello?

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The Unraveling NYPD

On this week’s podcast, Chris and I take a look at the burgeoning scandal at the NYPD, which currently threatens to take down the entire ruling hierarchy of the Department and the City — because it appears to reach all the way to New York’s City Hall. And beyond:

(click the above for a preview)

The media still doesn’t seem to understand the scope of the scandal. Given the scale, and the stature of those involved, it is shaping up to be the worst of our lifetimes.

Click HERE for the full thing.

And in the meantime: Look for Chris’s full round-up of the cast of miscreants currently running the west’s most important city.

You won’t believe it. Put delicately: here in New York, we’re sort of screwed.

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And finally….

Cops are cops everywhere. Hats off to this one.

Buen trabajo, senor!

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