Some of the most important goals for President Donald Trump’s second term in office will be ones that we had hoped he would achieve during his first term. Unfortunately, swamp draining is a marathon and not the sprint that we had expected. For example, Trump is well on his way to destroying what’s left of the mainstream media. CNN now has 500,000 nightly primetime viewers, compared to 16 million who tuned in for the last GOP debate in 2016. That’s incredible.
Another goal we’d really like to see accomplished is the abolishment of the “two sets of rules” that currently dominates our broken system of justice in America.
I’ve talked about the two-sets-of-rules standard a lot here. A US Navy sailor sends a selfie picture to his girlfriend that accidentally shows a tiny portion of the engine room on his submarine, and he goes to prison and loses his military career over it. Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton sacrifices four years’ worth of classified intelligence to Communist China on her bathroom treason server, and “no reasonable prosecutor” will take up the case. Two sets of rules.
Snorty Biden gets a cushy $50,000 a month no-show job with a Ukrainian gas company. Nothing to see there! But if Donald Trump asks someone to investigate that little arrangement, he gets impeached for it. Two sets of rules.
Here’s another hot tip for Republicans in the House:
Snorty Biden has a $2.5 million mansion in Beverly Hills. According to the real estate website Zillow, Snorty paid just $16,000 for the home. That seems like a sweetheart deal. Anyone feel like looking into that? Anyone?!
Have a seat and dig in, because now we have another example of the “two sets of rules” principle, hot off the presses.
Back during the Mueller witch hunt, which ultimately proved that Russian collusion was a myth, an attorney named Jack Burkman was trying to dig up dirt on Robert Mueller. Burkman is a conservative activist and honestly, he seems a bit shady. Whatever, though.
Burkman was talking to women who had worked with Robert Mueller in the past to try to see if Mueller is a possible sex criminal like Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, Kevin Spacey and other important Clinton donors. (Three of Kevin Spacey’s accusers have turned up dead in the past few months. Really?! Come on!)
At one point, Burkman announced that he was planning a press conference with a woman who had some serious accusations against Mueller. Ring a bell? This was also in the middle of the #MeToo hysteria that backfired badly on the Democrats.
Burkman’s next door neighbor was an FBI agent named Mark Tolson. He’d been a career agent at the FBI. Tolson’s wife had done some work for Burkman at some point in the past, and she just so happened to have Jack Burkman’s email password. Uh oh.
When Burkman announced that he was about to hold a press conference that would destroy Robert Mueller’s reputation, guess what happened?
FBI Agent Mark Tolson got into Burkman’s email account and snooped around. Then he sent screenshots of Burkman’s emails to a reporter, and provided that reporter with the password to Burkman’s email account. You know, just like any standup, totally honest and integrity-filled G-man would do!
Amazingly, the unidentified reporter never accessed Burkman’s email account and never reported on the incident. However, Agent Tolson got caught red-handed.
Tolson broke into Jack Burkman’s email account, made copies of various emails and then disseminated that private correspondence to other people.
Let’s pause for a moment to remember what happens to everyday people when they get caught breaking piddling, inconsequential laws that should be minor misdemeanors at most. Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is spending the rest of his life in prison for forgetting to fill out a piece of paperwork. Trump associate Roger Stone is facing life in prison because he could not remember the exact details of an email chain from three years ago. That’s how people like you and me get treated by the Justice Department when we don’t follow the exact, black letter of the law.
FBI agent Mark Tolson was just sentenced for the crime of unlawfully accessing Jack Burkman’s emails and disseminating those private materials. His motive, as he explained to the judge, was to “protect Director Mueller.” (Sheesh, what a lapdog. He wasn’t “Director” Mueller any longer – he was a Special Prosecutor.)
The judge sentenced Tolson to seven days in jail. Imagine what would have happened if you or someone like Donald Trump, Jr. had been caught doing the same thing to Gloria Allred or some other liberal activist attorney. Two sets of rules.
Here’s hoping that President Trump will overturn that abomination in his second term.
