Bidengate is multiple times more serious than was Watergate.
The evidence of Biden wrongdoing is worse than what was disclosed at this point against Richard Nixon.
“I am not a crook.”
The vise is tightening on Hunter for charges that he sold his father’s influence. No need here to review all the circumstantial evidence that points to payments of millions of dollars in bribes to the Trumps. Just review the testimony of the IRS whistleblowers and the confidential informant report revealed by the FBI. (Read the full report here.)
More interesting is the comparisons that Democrats have been made to the Watergate scandal that eventually for Republican Richard Nixon to resign the presidency.
I was a young reporter for the Chicago Daily News at the time and every morning as I read the papers on the commuter train I anxiously looked for the next startling revelation. I can confidently say that Democrats are right that Biden scandal is nothing like Watergate. It is much, much worse. Here are some differences:
Bidengate is a lot, lot more serious. Yes, Watergate was serious enough to convict Nixon of high crimes. It involved a break-in of a Democratic office by a small group of burglars at Nixon’s instigation and the resulting cover-up. Bidengate involves millions of dollars, threats to national security, illegal lobbying by Hunter, possible bribing of the president and his family
and a political coverup that is far more wide-ranging than Watergate.
The Watergate investigation was discovered and pursued by the press-notably the Washington Post and New York Times. No such luck with Bidengate. The nation’s two leading newspapers will claim that they are hot on the trail, but compared with Watergate, their efforts are pathetic, even nonexistent. For Bidengate, whistleblowers and political opponents are doing the hard work. They are, as liberals like to say, “speaking truth to power.” The Fourth Estate is not just on the sidelines, but helping coach the other side. It is the nadir of what once was considered a profession essential to democracy.
The investigation of Watergate turned out to be bipartisan. Republicans joined with Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee to vote to impeach Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, criminal cover-up and more. The writing was on the wall, as a conviction by the Senate was a certainty. Today realistic accusations against the Bidens are ridiculed by Democrats as a “political stunt” along with personal attacks galore.
The Department of Justice and the courts never acted as suspiciously as the DOJ is doing now. Judge John Sirica, a Senate committee and an independent special prosecutor named Archibald Cox fought all the way to the Supreme Court to gather evidence against Nixon. When Cox persisted, Nixon ordered he be fired, leading high-ranking Justice Dept. officials to resign. Just the opposite in the Biden administration; high ranking justice and other administration officials may have be covering the Bidens’ backs.
Nixon was long considered to be slimy. People would ask, “Would you buy a used car from this man?” “Tricky Dicky.”
Biden is granted a virtual pass. “Lunchbox Joe,” A fighter for the middle class. Even though he owns expensive estates, on a senator’s salary. He was so blindly ambitious to be president he boldly plagiarized a British lawmaker’s speech.
And so it continues up to the present moment. After a federal judge today refused to accept a lenient plea bargain that amounted to a tickle on Hunter’s wrist, the New York Times reported:
Congressional Republicans tried to block the plea deal on Tuesday, arguing that it had been tainted by political interference. Republicans have put Hunter Biden at the center of their efforts to attack his father, claiming that President Biden has abused his power during two separate administrations to enrich his family. That effort has produced no evidence of misdeeds by the president. [My emphasis.]
There’s plenty of evidence, circumstantial as Democrats would argue. But if this were Nixon and not Biden under the microscope, you know that the president already would be mounting the gallows.
A compliant press. Office holders seemingly violating their oath. So many links between suspicious Chinese and Ukrainian sources and the Bidens. Hunter’s computer that reveals enough to send him to prison. Selling influence in the nation’s second-highest office. Getting away without paying federal income taxes. And more.
When will it end?