Dealing blows to whistleblowers who leaked information about the Bidens

In an example of the way the American legal system is being burdened by ordinary people, a $20 million defamation lawsuit was filed Friday night by IRS whistleblowers Gary Shapley and Joe Ziegler against Hunter Biden’s attorney, Abbe Lowell.

First, such a lawsuit typically costs more than $1 million. Second, Lowell is one of the most feared lawyers in the country, and few of his peers are willing to take on him.

The good news is that after several failed attempts, whistleblower defense group Empower Oversight has managed to secure the services of Las Vegas defamation lawyer Mitchell Landsberg, whose clients include billionaire Steve Wynn.

Then there’s the fact that the legal industry has become dominated by aggressively partisan Democratic firms that see no harm in bankrolling legal battles against Donald Trump and his supporters, or giving free legal advice to politically useful Democrats, or bowing to Democratic Party pressure to get rid of politically inconvenient partners. And there’s no shortage of left-wing billionaires willing to bankroll meritless lawsuits, like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, who bankrolled E. Jean Carroll v. Trump.

Conservatives and anyone who doesn’t benefit the Democrats don’t have such deep pockets.

Although Shapley and Ziegler’s lawsuit had a good chance of success, it almost didn’t succeed because they earn modest salaries as public servants and must rely on donors.

“The ugly truth is that whistleblowers typically face well-funded retaliatory campaigns,” says Empower founder Jason Foster, a former chief investigative counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“It’s just not right, so we’ve launched a new crowdfunding campaign on Defendwhistleblowers.com (to) level the playing field. With the public’s help, we plan to mount a strong defense so that retaliators will think twice before making false accusations.”

Shapley and Ziegler emerged from the shadows last year to brief Congress on how the Justice Department had obstructed and slowed the criminal investigation into First Son for five years. Their blistering testimony included allegations that prosecutors tipped off Hunter’s lawyers about pending search warrants, allowed the statute of limitations on the most serious charges to expire, withheld evidence from investigators and prohibited them from mentioning Joe Biden — or his nickname, “The Big Guy” — during witness interviews.

As a reward, their careers were destroyed, IRS executives abandoned them, and their reputations suffered “incredible and malicious damage” when Lowell accused them of illegally disclosing Hunter’s private tax information.

They claim Lowell acted with “obvious malice” in responding to their lawful disclosures of impropriety with false and defamatory statements in the media.

“As whistleblowers, Shapley and Ziegler acted with honor and integrity in disclosing conflicts of interest, preferential treatment, and political motivations that they believed negatively impacted the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s taxes,” their lawsuit, filed in the District Court of the District of Columbia, reads.

The sweet deal between Hunter and Delaware U.S. attorney David Weiss fell apart when Shapley and Ziegler went public with their concerns. Their fears were confirmed when Hunter pleaded guilty this month in California to all the tax crimes he was charged with.

The disclosures that honest IRS investigators made to Congress provide an invaluable record of wrongdoing by bad actors in the federal government. They ensured that Hunter would not go unpunished and provided evidence to prosecute others in the future.

“The truth matters,” Shapley says. “It mattered when I did my duty by blowing the whistle last year. It mattered when justice was served last week. It matters now, as I am forced to defend my reputation against false accusations of wrongdoing. I am not doing this just for myself. I am doing this for all whistleblowers who may be publicly attacked.”

Anti-Trump comic

In a brazen attempt to brainwash young voters in Pennsylvania, a comic book full of lies about the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot targeting Trump was sent to every public high school and library in the key swing state on the eve of the presidential election.

Copies of the first issue of “1/6: Graphic Novel“will be shipped this week, as scheduled Voice of Philadelphiawhich describes it as “speculative fiction in the style of The Handmaid’s Tale.”

The comic, funded by the leftist Kettering Foundation, is set in an alternate universe Washington, D.C., in which Trump’s “uprising” was successful and authoritarian leaders took over the country and began executing journalists.

“It’s very clear to me that the forces that led to this uprising … white supremacy, disinformation — those things are still very much present in our lives,” said Alan Jenkins, the Harvard law professor who masterminded the dirty political ruse. “Philadelphia Inquirer”.

If that’s not election interference, I don’t know what is. There should be some kind of limit on naked political propaganda being forced on students before elections.