The Biden administration repeatedly made efforts to eliminate from public conversation those who fiercely and adeptly spoke out against its policies.
From President Donald Trump to his advisors Peter Novarro, Steve Bannon and others, the Biden administration created a weaponized, unequal justice system that chilled speech and attempted to intimidate other would-be critics into self-censorship. When it was not possible to target a political opponent directly for his or her speech, the Biden administration would instead come up with other, pretextual grounds to launch political prosecutions.
President Donald J. Trump
Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed hyper-partisan special prosecutor Jack Smith to target then-former and future President Donald Trump over allegedly keeping classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.
Garland appointed Smith even though Biden himself hoarded documents from his time as vice president. The FBI stormed Mar-a-Lago and then staged a crime scene, even producing its own folders marked “TOP SECRET” for a photo-op.
After Smith indicted Trump, Biden publicly declared: “We gotta lock him up!”
Dr. Ethan Haim
Dr. Eithan Haim, a surgeon at Texas Children’s Hospital, submitted documents (with patients' names and identifying details redacted) to a journalist, according to the National Review. The documents revealed that the hospital was prescribing hormone treatment to young children, sometimes within days of a child claiming to be “transgender,” even though such conduct was banned under Texas law. While publicly denying the procedures were happening, the hospital was billing Texas’s Medicaid program for them, according to the City-Journal.
The Department of Justice indicted Haim for his whistleblowing, claiming he had illegally accessed the hospital’s computer documentation system. In the indictment — and their representations to the grand jury — prosecutors insisted that Haim was working at a different hospital and thus his access to the computer was obtained fraudulently. The prosecutors also claimed that Haim had disclosed patients’ personal information to journalists. In actuality, according to National Review, Haim was working at the same hospital where the procedures were being conducted, and he had redacted the patients’ personal information from the documents before disclosing the hospital’s activity.
The Department of Justice’s indictment of Texas Children’s Hospital whistleblower Dr. Eithan Haim sparked a fierce backlash. In response, the Justice Department urged the court to impose a gag order on Haim. This would prevent him from discussing his case and even from fundraising for his legal defense fund — even though he had already lost his savings defending himself from the frivolous charges.
While trying to gag Haim, the Justice Department put out its press statements and propaganda on the case, even though doing so could prejudice a potential jury.
Peter Navarro & Steve Bannon
Garland’s Justice Department indicted, convicted and demanded extreme penalties for President Donald Trump’s former advisors Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro over the misdemeanor offenses of resisting a congressional subpoena. The prosecutions, which led to each man’s four-month imprisonment, were based on the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voting to hold them in contempt.
The action was a nakedly partisan attempt to silence Navarro, a writer and vocal Trump advocate, and Bannon, a political strategist and popular podcaster, during the 2024 primary elections. Garland's motives became even clearer when, while he prosecuted and imprisoned Bannon and Navarro, Garland was held in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena to produce the video of President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
Roger Ver
Libertarian futurist Roger Ver wrote the book Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC, which accused the government of intentionally trying to co-opt cryptocurrency and use it to push mass surveillance and a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Ver said in an interview with independent journalist Tucker Carlson that just as he began a book tour, he was arrested in Spain on behalf of the Tax Division and the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, which sought to imprison him for over 100 years for alleged “tax evasion.”
Ver told Carlson that the Justice Department accused him of violating the Internal Revenue Service’s byzantine regulations when he reported his possession of blockchain-based speech — even though, as Carlson noted, Ver is “not a U.S. citizen” and “was not a U.S. citizen” for “the period for which he was charged with evading American taxes.” The Justice Department, Ver told Carlson, then attempted to get the Spanish government to keep Ver imprisoned rather than giving him house arrest before his extradition proceedings.
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