“Democracy Dies in Darkness.”
That is supposedly the official logo of The Washington Post.
In the interest of accuracy, that logo should perhaps be changed to “Democracy Dies in a Washington Post Fairy Tale.”
That thought occurs when reading this front page headline in The Post from this past week. It read:
With Comey prosecution, Trump fulfills promise of revenge
President Donald Trump’s predecessors sought to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions. Trump openly intervened in the Comey prosecution.
Say what? Trump’s “predecessors sought to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.” And his predecessors had “deference to the agency’s tradition of independence.”
Really? Really???
Let’s take a trip down the memory lane of history.
Here’s a name The Post clearly has forgotten: Webb Hubbell. Let Time remind in this article from 1997, bold print for emphasis supplied:
Whenever the list of Bill Clinton’s Best Friends is put together, Webb Hubbell’s name is always near the top. Clinton installed his golfing buddy and confidant as Associate Attorney General in 1993; at the Justice Department he could serve as the First Family’s eyes and ears. Hubbell resigned in March 1994 amid allegations that he had bilked his clients and partners out of thousands of dollars at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he once worked with Mrs. Clinton. By August 1995, Clinton’s close friend was in jail, serving 21 months for fraud.
Which is to say, the Clinton-run Justice Department was all about installing Clinton pals to run the Department. It was decidedly not about “deference to the agency’s tradition of independence.” It was about filling the Clinton Justice Department with Clinton political pals.
Then there was this from Fox News about the FBI-which was being run by the Biden Department of Justice in 2022:
FBI raids Trump's Mar-a-Lago: 'Unprecedented' for agency to execute search warrant against former president
Former head of the FBI's Minneapolis Field Office Michael Tabman said the FBI's execution of a search warrant on Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida is ‘unprecedented’
A “deference to the agency’s tradition of independence”???? That would be a bad joke.
And maybe let’s not forget this headline from The New York Times in July of 2023:
The Trump Classified Documents Indictment, Annotated
This Times story began by reporting this, bold print for emphasis supplied:
The Justice Department on Thursday released an updated version of an indictment charging former President Donald J. Trump with 40 criminal counts. They relate to Mr. Trump’s hoarding of sensitive government documents after he left office and his refusal to return them, even after being subpoenaed for all remaining records in his possession that were marked as classified. The indictment supersedes one released June 8, adding three criminal charges for Mr. Trump and naming an additional defendant.
Again, back to The Post story reporting that Trump’s “predecessors sought to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.”
Again: Really? Really???
The hard fact is that the Biden-run Department of Justice was anything but displaying “the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.” And not only did the Biden-run Justice Department target Trump, but so too did Biden’s Democrat allies in the New York District Attorney's Office and the office of the Fulton County Georgia’s District Attorney. Both targeted Trump, employing the full weight of their respective prosecutorial offices.
Which is to say, Biden and company staunchly worked against the very idea of a “deference to the agency’s tradition of independence.” Whether it was the federal Department of Justice or local Democrat-run prosecutor offices in New York and Georgia, systems of justice were corrupted outright. To suggest otherwise is a considerable fairy tale.
One could go on. Apparently The Post has forgotten that President Bill Clinton infamously became the very first president to fire all 93 U.S. Attorneys in the country. All, of course, were DOJ employees.
One could go on. But the central fact here is that The Washington Post - in its ongoing anti-Trump vendetta - has deliberately run a seriously wrong story about President Donald Trump’s predecessors having sought “to preserve the Justice Department’s independence in political prosecutions.”
Not so.
Not even close.
