Impeachment Time for the ‘Big Guy.’
If House investigators follow the evidence, they’ll have no choice.
You can look at the appointment of a special counsel to investigate Joe Biden a couple of ways. The then Vice-President’s careless incompetence (if not illegality) in storing classified documents in his garage or academic ‘office’ is obvious for its hypocrisy.
That alone painted the partisan Attorney General, Merrick Garland, into the proverbial corner in which he had no choice after siccing the FBI and CNN on Donald Trump’s papers at the former President’s personal residence.1
Believe it or not, there was a time when we didn’t have to pretend an AG was independent of an executive branch headed up by the man who appointed him. That was when special counsels were rare because the Justice Department wasn’t weaponized to prosecute political enemies. It actually went after real transgressions instead of criminalizing politics.
Biden’s comeuppance, however, is more than necessary for a few reasons, none of which, by the way, include disputes with the National Archives. First, the politicization of special counsels—like their more potent predecessors under the now defunct, Independent Counsel Statute (OIC)—won’t end until their investigations are turned on Democrats.
Second, and more serious, is what Biden was using his exclusive access to the documents for. There is no indication the Mar-a-Lago docs were connected to enriching Trump. Quite to the contrary, his tax returns show his net worth shrank while in office.2