No One is Above the Law

The PAC Perspective by Ted Flint

It is so gratifying to watch these anti-Trump officials go down one by one. Let us start with NY Attorney General Letitia James. Ms. James ran on a platform of getting Trump. To now hear her speaking out against anyone who would “weaponize justice for political gain,” is laughable.

The attorney general, who successfully brought a civil fraud case against Trump last year and leads multiple lawsuits challenging his administration's policies, was indicted on a federal charge of bank fraud for making false statements to a financial institution. According to reports James is also accused of housing her fugitive grandniece, Nakia Thompson, and her three children, inside her Virginia home since 2020! Court documents show that this is the same home at the center of James’ own indictment. Prosecutors allege James made false statements to the bank to acquire a more favorable mortgage rate. Thompson has a rap sheet a mile long. She has been arrested numerous times, twice for assaulting police officers. Other charges include burglary, grand larceny, and child-endangerment-related traffic offenses. So much for James’ claim of being a “watchdog for justice” and “protecting the rule of law.”

Predictably, James is accusing President Trump of political retribution. No, it is holding the powerful accountable, as she put it in her pursuit of getting Donald Trump.

Then, we have John Bolton, a longtime establishment insider who has served in previous administrations, including as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and as National Security Advisor in Donald Trump’s first term, facing an 18-count indictment accusing him of mishandling classified information. If Trump can be faulted for anything, it is for making Bolton a part of his cabinet. It was a bad fit from the beginning. Bolton is hawkish on projecting U.S. military power, which is in sharp contrast with the President’s America First foreign policy which seeks to keep the United States from being dragged into perpetual no-win wars.

Bolton is accused of sharing hundreds of pages of notes that included sensitive national defense information he had taken in meetings with other government officials and foreign leaders or from intelligence briefings. Authorities say Bolton used a personal email account and messaging platform to share with his wife and daughter some information classified as “top secret.” In August, the FBI searched his Maryland home and his office in D.C. Bolton is accusing the President of using the Justice Department to go after his enemies, but the fact is the inquiry was well underway by the time Trump assumed office in January.

One would think a Yale-trained attorney would honor his legal duty not to share classified information without authorization, especially given the various nondisclosure agreements he had to sign, or his past slams of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's Signalgate. The fact that someone named to such a sensitive position would write a tell all book to malign the president who appointed him speaks to his lack of moral character.

 Former FBI Director James Comey is accused of lying to a Senate committee about whether he authorized a leak of classified information to the media. Comey claims he is innocent.

The charges against Bolton are the most serious as they involve possible violations of the Espionage Act. The irony in that James and Bolton are accused of the very crimes of which they claimed Donald Trump was guilty is rich indeed. Trump’s detractors can call it political payback, or retribution, or the president attacking his political enemies, but it is no such thing. It is justice. Everyone deserves a presumption of innocence. But in the cases of Comey and Bolton, if they are found guilty, Washington will have two fewer alligators in the Swamp.