Letter: Lawfare – Part 2

George Wilhelmsen
Posted 1/23/25

If you need an example of how some people are treated with kid gloves and others are prosecuted/persecuted, you need to look no further than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was storing classified information on her personal email server.

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Letter: Lawfare – Part 2

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Dear editor,

If you need an example of how some people are treated with kid gloves and others are prosecuted/persecuted, you need to look no further than former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was storing classified information on her personal email server. This is specifically prohibited by government laws. Yes, she was prosecuted after destroying the server and trying to destroy the evidence. Forensic scientists were able to extract the information and corroborate the crime.

What was Hillary Clinton sentenced to? Nothing. The judge determined that she was “careless” and “did not intentionally mean to do this. Perhaps we should all try using that argument the next time you are pulled over for speeding – “I’m sorry officer, I was careless and I didn’t intentionally do this so you should let me off.” (Citation: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/05/484785586/fbi-recommends-no-charges-for-hillary-clinton-in-email-server-case )

How about Hunter Biden? The Justice Department slow-walked the indictments for so long, the statute of limitations expired on some charges. When the charges were eventually brought and convictions seemed to be forthcoming, after steadfastly denying that he would pardon his son at least five times, with his White House spokesperson adding an addition five times denying that he would pardon his son, President Biden gave the strangest and most expansive pardon on record, for crimes charged or uncharged in a strangely odd time period. This time period happens to coincide with Hunter Biden landing a board of directors job with a foreign energy company (Burisma) in which he had neither the knowledge or experience to have been qualified for that job. It must be good to be a Biden.

Contrast that with the case brought by the DA of Atlanta, Georgia, Fani Willis and her lawfare against Trump. Never mind that she was alleging that he committed election fraud in a federal election – a charge the Justice Department felt was not worth pursuing – but bringing the charge at the state level while invoking the Georgia state Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) statute to make a specious case. This tied up numerous people associated with and including Trump. Some of the many people charged in this case took plea agreements to avoid having their names and families dragged through the mud.

This case is currently on hold, as DA Willis was cited for misconduct and has been removed from the case. DA Willis is appealing her removal from the case. Why is DA Willis so intent on prosecuting this case? Lawfare is sadly the answer.

Why were all these cases and more (including some state efforts to keep Trump off the state ballot) brought at the same time? It isn’t because Trump is a bad person – some of these cases are so specious that people have made a living writing about how their theory stretches the laws in ways that have never been done before.

This is what Trump and his allies consider Lawfare. It is a focused effort by the party in power to knock out a competitor. It’s wrong in every sense of our legal system and must stop.

This is provided in an effort to provide some semblance of balance. While some people appear to be able to stand in a burning building and not see or smell smoke, others of us can clearly see what is being done, and the double-standard that appears to be applied, and find it disturbing. One must suspect that if it was someone other than President-elect Trump at the point of this writing who was under the judicial microscope that these cases would not have been ever brought.

-George Wilhelmsen, Rochelle