If part 1 “escalated dramatically,” as our producer quipped, then the latest episode keeps the heat on — amiably, of course! Adam Baldwin and I continue our discussion into the double standards at the DoJ, this time with a focus on Joe Biden. It’s taken three years to find out that a previously trusted informant tipped the FBI to possible bribery when Joe Biden was VP, and it took a public campaign by members of Congress to get the information from Christopher Wray. “It would have been easy enough for Joe Biden just to say Release the form,” Adam points out. “He won’t do that because he’s guilty.” I point out that the Operation Crossfire Hurricane operation targeting another presidential candidate got spun up on much less — a bar conversation with a low-level campaign adviser. So why has the FBI dragged its heels for years on Biden Inc?
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Welcome back to our VIP video series “The Amiable Skeptics,” featuring my friend Adam Baldwin! Adam is well-known for his long and storied Hollywood career, starting with My Bodyguard, and especially for his roles in Full Metal Jacket, Firefly, its film sequel Serenity, Chuck, and The Last Ship.
Crossfire Hurricane began with a second-hand tip about a bar conversation with George Papadopoulos, and escalated with the Hillary Clinton-produced Steele Dossier. I bring up the Alfa Bank fiasco as well, which supposedly was the vehicle for Russian payoffs to Donald Trump, but which turned out to be fabricated — and which also appears to have come from Hillary’s campaign operation. And yet the DoJ didn’t hesitate to spin this up into a major code-named operation “just days” after the Papadopoulos tip, I point out to Adam.
Yeah, Adam jokingly replies, “but where’s the money, Fat? I mean, Jack?” More seriously, Adam says that the FBI “have been told not to do anything about it by Biden and by Merrick Garland.” The bigger problem, Adam tells me, is “they have ‘true believers’ that are squirreled away in there at the highest levels, including Director Wray.”
That’s not just a problem for Republicans, Adam warns. “We don’t want to be in a place where when the FBI knocks on our door,” he says, relating a similar argument from Jesse Watters, “we’re wondering whether the agents coming after us are Republican or Democrat.” And while this point doesn’t specifically come up in our conversation, one has to wonder whether we’re already there in the way the FBI persecuted Mark Houck on the pretext of the FACE Act for an alleged crime the local police dismissed first.
There’s a lot more in this episode, including the choice we have in this election. Do we choose to use a politicized DoJ to punish those who abused power themselves, or do we try to fix the problem and restore confidence in federal law enforcement? That’s not an easy question. Be sure to watch it all, and join us in the comments!
