Conservative ex-prosecutor calls out GOP for not investigating 'sordid' Trump scandal

A conservative analyst wrote in a right-wing publication to chastise Republican lawmakers who have refused to investigate the president of the United States for alleged self-dealing schemes he says make the Biden family's alleged crimes look like a drop in the bucket.

Former prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York and now works as a senior fellow at National Review Institute and a National Review contributing editor, wrote a piece over the weekend called The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE.

In the piece, McCarthy covers the genesis of the scandal that would ultimately emerge last week when it was reported that there was a "secret" and "unprecedented" deal between Donald Trump and a "spy Sheikh."

"It’s a long story, but let’s cut to the chase. In autumn 2024, when it had become clear that he’d likely win back the White House in about six weeks, Donald Trump and his friend Steve Witkoff founded a crypto business called World Liberty Financial (WLF).WLF was (and remains) an ideal vehicle for leveraging political power in search of financial gain," he wrote. "Crypto is shrouded in mystery and intrigue. The public generally doesn’t understand it. The Federal Reserve says just 2 percent of Americans used crypto to pay for something in 2024. The 'value' that investors promote and customers purchase is vague. Hence, a crypto business — whether in tokens, currency, or other iterations — is an ideal way to disguise political payoffs as financial transactions. And, because they have sons who do not hold government positions and could ostensibly run the crypto business, President Trump and his Middle East envoy, Witkoff, would be poised to claim that WLF is a private enterprise, walled off from Trump’s political influence — even though that influence was the magnet for foreign investment and consumer purchases."

Before discussing the "gory details" of the Trump scandal, the conservative wrote, "it’s worth observing that, at National Review, we extensively covered the Biden family business of corruptly profiteering off Joe Biden’s political power and influence. So did congressional Republicans. Indeed, three investigative committees, led by Representative James Comer (R., Ky.), who is still the Oversight chairman, spent hundreds of hours gathering evidence, interviewing witnesses, and threatening to hold President Biden’s son, Hunter, in contempt. House Republicans even opened an impeachment inquiry, which generated a scathing report on the 'conspiracy to monetize Joe Biden’s office of public trust to enrich the Biden family.' The sum generated over several years of Biden self-dealing — 'over $27 million' — flashed in neon throughout the report’s 291 pages. Republicans were especially incensed because the Bidens practiced their harlotry on foreigners — in particular, agents of China. Family avarice, rather than the national interest, drove United States government policy."

He then continued:

"You know what the difference is between the Biden family business and the Trump family business? You’d have to add two digits to the sum of Biden abuses of power, foreign entanglements, and corruption alleged in the report to get near what Trump has raked in just from the UAE. Of course, Trump can’t be faulted for obstructing congressional investigations. There haven’t been any. Comer is busy tangling with the Clintons, the better to take the Epstein heat off a president whose poll numbers have declined as this year’s midterm elections beckon. Now that self-dealing has achieved heights so astronomical that $27 million would barely be a rounding error, Republicans have lost interest."

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