By David Kamioner | December 28, 2019
Joe Biden, the former vice president and a 2020 Democrat primary frontrunner [1] right now, threatened in an interview on Friday with the editorial board of The Des Moines Register [2] to obstruct justice when he said he would not honor a subpoena if one were issued to him in the Senate trial of President Donald Trump.
That effectively means he would be ignoring a subpoena issued by a court — whose judge would be the chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Related: Trump Ready for Any Senate Trial [3]
This abuse of the power of his position as a leader in the Democratic Party was accompanied by, in typical Biden fashion, a bragging of his wish to manipulate the system to his own benefit.
“What are you guys going to cover?” said Biden to the editorial board. “You guys are going to cover for three weeks anything that I said. And [Trump’s] going to get away.”
The above direct quote is a blatant admission that apart from any sense of due process, constitutional reasoning, or justice, Biden is only worried that negative news coverage of his possible misdeeds would result in a presidential acquittal.
And worry he should.
From his highly questionable interference in the Ukrainian legal system to remove a prosecutor who was targeting the corrupt energy firm that employed his completely unqualified son — another move he bragged about — to this refusal to answer a legally binding subpoena if it is issued to him, Joe Biden colludes with fellow Dems in a cover-up so multi-layered that previous political scandals pale in comparison.
He’d be lucky to leave the court without a pending indictment.
The effect of his testimony in the case against the president?
At least he got that one right.
Those are only his legal worries.
His political situation is even worse. Biden’s continued gaffes and confusions portray him to a rebellious and youth-oriented Dem primary voter base as befuddled and an out-of-touch remnant from a past era.
In the same interview with the Register’s editorial board, Biden also oddly claimed, “The guy [the president] violated the Constitution. He said it in the driveway of the White House. He acknowledged he asked for help.”
There is no public record of President Trump’s admitting to violating the Constitution while in the driveway of the Executive Mansion or any other structure.
Nor is there any part of the U.S. Constitution that stipulates “asking for help” violates the law, its articles, or the presidential oath of office.
It is thus no wonder Biden has not been endorsed by former President Barack Obama — or can nail down even close to a majority of the Democrat primary electorate.
While generally devoid of proper ideological judgment, even they can recognize a train wreck when they see one.
This piece originally appeared in LifeZette [4] and is used by permission.
Read more at LifeZette:
‘It’s No Longer Nancy Pelosi Calling the Shots’ in Her Caucus, Says Steve Scalise [5]
‘Where’s Hunter?’: He and Wife Missing from Joe Biden’s Family Photo [6]
John Bolton Has a New Career: Going After Donald Trump [7]