The Biden administration informed Donald Trump’s lawyers that a grand jury had indicted the former president and he must surrender to a federal court in Miami on Tuesday. Trump took to Truth Social late Thursday to announce the indictment, proclaiming his innocence and calling it a dark day in America.
The news of the indictment quickly suffocated coverage of a confidential human source’s claim that the Ukrainian founder of Burisma had paid a $5 million bribe to Joe Biden. While the shift in coverage is unfortunate because the legacy media had finally begun to cover the Biden pay-to-pay scandal, the timing provides for the perfect juxtaposition of the federal government’s handling of the two cases and the media’s coverage of both stories. It also proves what Trump said in his social media thread: “We are a country in serious and rapid decline.”
A country cannot survive two standards of justice meted out based on the political preferences of the prosecutors. Yet that is precisely what Americans are witnessing.
On the one hand, we have the former Republican president who became the target of a politicized Department of Justice and FBI even before he set foot in the Oval Office. Special Counsel John Durham’s report revealed that reality. The attempts to destroy Trump continued throughout his time in office and included attacks by both law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
Then, as Trump departed the White House upon Biden’s inauguration, a backbench bureaucrat with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) launched
