Don't Shoot

First, I have to say I ventured into a theater for the first time in a few years last night to see the new Spider-Man movie and it was truly stunning. My son and I both think it is one of the best superhero movies ever done and, just as a stand-alone film, it is incredible.

Now, please don’t shoot. I’ve just been around the block a few times and want to note something.

A whistleblower has come forward with some pretty damning accusations against the White House, IRS, and Department of Justice, among others, about the Hunter Biden affair. The whistleblower claims both a massive cover-up and a massive effort to stymie the investigation into Hunter Biden.

I’m going to meditate more on the accusations and want to explain why.

The whistleblower statement is so on the nose, so damning, and so precise in describing exactly how I’d envision a coverup that it confirms every single prior and does not challenge any of my priors.

In my long experience and time in politics and law, it is so good at telling me exactly what I want to hear and so damning of the bad guys that my spidey sense is going off that it just might be too good to be true.

I’ve just gotten so used to seeing this stuff blow up in all our faces that I feel like we have to be being played because, wow, this stuff is so damning. It implicates the President, the Attorney General, the FBI Head, etc., like in a movie script.

And then I think about all the accusations the GOP trotted out a month or so ago, and only afterward did we learn that, actually that whistleblower can’t be found. This, at least, has partially gotten the attention of the New York Times. That’s actually a big deal given how dismissive they have been, and though they try here, they cannot dismiss everything. Clearly, Hunter Biden claimed his father was with him when texting a Chinese businessman, and it seems clear some of his messages were not handed over to investigators. So there are some truths still to be uncovered, some of which are so damning the Times cannot dismiss them. But then there is the entirety of what was released.

I’ll put it to you this way — if this stuff is true, Biden, Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, and many others should be carted off to prison. But also, that’s exactly why it seems to be telling me what I want to hear, which suggests it is too good to be true.

So I’m going to take a cautious approach on this one. Don’t shoot. I will move slowly and not take it all at face value because I’ve been down this road too many times. I want to believe it is as described, but so too did Democrats with Alexander Vindman and the Steele Dossier — the stories were all so perfect, so neat, and so tidy.

I was an early adopter of the lab leak theory, but I’ll my time on this. And, who knows, maybe all our priors about the level of corruption within this White House will prove to be true. If so, indicting Trump really was a terrible move for Team Biden.