Joe Biden and the Democrats are worried that they cannot defeat Donald Trump in a free and fair election.
But no one could believe how far the Left is willing to go to stop Trump.
And Joe Biden used the FBI to pull this dirty trick to kick Trump off the ballot in 2024.
In a scene straight out of a third-world dictatorship, Joe Biden’s Justice Department ordered the federal police force to raid Donald Trump’s home.
The New York Times reported that the raid centered on allegations Trump kept documents with classified information contained in them at his Mar-a-Lago estate after leaving office.
While the federal government rarely prosecutes cases of mishandling government records – former Bill Clinton National Security Advisor Sandy Berger faced a fine and community service for stuffing documents from the National Archives down his pants to remove them – Democrats quickly pointed to the potential penalties as to why Biden and his political enforcers at the FBI pursued this investigation.
One of the potential sanctions for a conviction on a count of mishandling government records is barring that person from ever holding office again.
18 U.S. Code § 2071 – Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally:
“Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.”
Democrats gleefully considered the possibility that federal prosecution could solve their problem of not being able to defeat Donald Trump at the ballot box.
But there is one problem.
Only the Constitution can set requirements to run for office, and there are Supreme Court precedents that suggest Trump would prevail in any challenge to an effort to use this law to keep him off the ballot in 2024.
Even left-wing New York Times activist Charlie Savage wrote:
But in considering that situation, several legal scholars — including Seth B. Tillman of Maynooth University in Ireland and Eugene Volokh of the University of California, Los Angeles — noted that the Constitution sets eligibility criteria for who can be president, and argued that Supreme Court rulings suggest Congress cannot alter them. The Constitution allows Congress to disqualify people from holding office in impeachment proceedings, but grants no such power for ordinary criminal law.
Joe Biden is taking America to a scary and dark place.
The Biden administration is now openly admitting it will criminalize political enemies and use the threat of jail time to shut down opposition leaders.
Renewed Right will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.