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Guest by Post By Bob Unruh
'There is nothing more powerful than the smell of lying'
There have long been allegations that there are two tiers of justice in America: one for leftists and liberals and one for those who are more conservative. For example, the government's failure to charge Hillary Clinton after she posted national secrets on an unsecured web server in her home.
Others have gone to jail for even less time.
Jonathan Turley, the J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University, has historically rejected the idea that the identity of a suspect would determine attacks conducted by the federal government.
But in an online column he pointed out, “It is becoming harder to deny the existence of a two-track system of justice in the country as commentators and even some courts have raised concerns over the role of politics in prosecution.
“For years, conservatives have objected to the fact that there is a two-tier system of justice in this country. I have long resisted such claims, but various recent cases and opinions have made it harder to deny the apparent selective prosecution.
For example, he said, there has been the recent scandal in Georgia where Democrat Fulton County DA Fani Willis was accused of profiting financially from the fact that she organized crime against President Trump, at the expense of taxpayers about $700,000. Hired her boyfriend to make the case. And others, then took exotic holidays with her as part of their relationship.
Above all Nathan Wade has now been removed from the case. But Willis persists.
Citing the “smell of lying” referenced by playwright Tennessee Williams in “Cat on a Hot Tim's Roof,” Turley said, “The smell was especially strong after hearing that Wade had lied in his first divorce case.” May testified, and she credibly accused both Willis and Wade of lying about when their relationship began.
“They are being prosecuted on charges of the same underlying conduct as the defendants in the Trump case, including 19 individual counts of false statements, false filings or perjury.”
But there's more, he said.
That “smell” is coming from many jurisdictions across the country, and is now “becoming intolerable to many Americans as selective prosecution is being raised in a wide range of cases.”
He cited “strong” evidence against President Trump for keeping government documents at Mar-a-Lago.
“However, Special Counsel Robert Hur’s recent decision not to bring criminal charges against President Joe Biden weakens that case as well. Hur described four decades of serial violations by Biden of laws governing classified documents. The evidence includes Biden telling third parties that he had classified material in his home and actually reading from a classified document to his unsanctioned ghostwriter,” he said. “There is evidence of an effort to destroy evidence and a subsequent effort by the White House to alter the report.”
Hur recommended not impeaching Biden due to his “low” abilities.
But special counsel Jack Smith, who is pursuing nearly the same charges against Trump, now says it is “in absurd contradiction with the treatment Biden is receiving.”
And then, in New York, lawmakers changed their own law to prosecute Trump over financial transactions in which no one lost any money, he said.
The AG there, Letitia James, essentially campaigned on a pledge to “selectively” prosecute Trump.
“Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has also come up with an unprecedented way to use state law to effectively prosecute Trump for a federal crime that the Justice Department has already ruled out,” Turley said.
On the other hand, the DOJ proposed a “ridiculous” plea deal for Hunter Biden “that would involve no prison sentence and a broad immunity agreement…”
And, Turley wrote, it's not just Trump.
“In California, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney issued an opinion that found such evidence of selective prosecution against conservative groups. When considering a far-right group, Carney said the Justice Department has completely different views depending on the political views of the defendants.
“Such selective prosecution leaves the troubling impression that the government believes that speech on the left is more worthy of protection than speech on the right,” Carney ruled, adding that the Constitution prohibits it.
He said, “FBI Director James Comey received similar lenient treatment after arranging for FBI material to be removed and information leaked to the media. Meanwhile, defendants such as Trump's national security adviser Michael Flynn have been increasingly prosecuted for making false statements to investigators under Comey's watch.
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