[Fogest]

He is concerned about the politician of the FBI, yet it has already been used as a political weapon long before Trump's current reign. Did FBI not raid journalists involved in covering the Hunter Biden laptop story and attempt to aid in covering this up? That's one large example of the past politically charged actions from the FBI that occurred prior to Trump against the "right".

It seems that his problem is that he does not agree with it now being used against the "side" he stands with, rather than that he disagrees with it being used politically at all. I'd agree that it often is used for political purposes, but I would not agree that this only started in Trump's current term. It's been used by both sides in this way.

[jmye]

> Did FBI not raid journalists involved in covering the Hunter Biden laptop story and attempt to aid in covering this up?

Did they? Why not just assert what you believe, instead of giving it this weird air of deniability?

Do you believe that the Hunter Biden “story” is similar or dissimilar to firing political and personal enemies of appointees?

[Fogest]

I'd say they are both bad, though I actually view it as worse when going after journalists, especially when it relates to a story surrounding the family of a politician running for president. The FBI also lied to social media companies in order to get them to remove stories about it, despite knowing the story was true: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/testimony-r...

And here is the story about the raid of the journalist: https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/13/raid-veritas-okeefe...

[techpineapple]

I really struggle with equivocating these things, because I’m just going to point out, that both of these stories are incredibly one sided, they hurt Democrats and help Republicans. In fact, looking only in retrospect, I would say the hunter biden laptop suppression was more likely to be a false flag, given who it helped and who it hurt.

But how is it that no matter who politicizes anything, it’s always actually one sides fault. And, like you implied, who cares if Republicans succeed in consistently and repetitively politicizing the FBI, because the Democrats may have done it once in a way that royally backfired. Two wrongs make a right.

But I love how Democrats keep getting punished for the one story that has helped Republicans more than any other of the past decade.

[Fogest]

It's not about one side winning over the other. The problem is that the author of this article is attempting to make it sound like the problem only started when Trump got into power. What I am trying to point out is that this has been a problem for a while, and was a tool used recently to try to aid democrats getting into power and to censor speech on social media platforms under the guise of "misinformation" (despite them knowing it was not).

I personally do view governmental control of speech and attacks on journalists to be pretty severe in the grand scheme of things. I don't want either side to be using the FBI for this, but I don't like the authors non-genuine attempt at making it seem like this is a Trump specific problem. They did not speak out about it before, they only had a problem with it when it impacted them.

[techpineapple]

How did it possibly aid democrats??? They are less popular than ever and Trump won. Every thing the Democrats have been accused of help Republicans. Everything the Republicans are accused of help Republicans.

Trump couldn’t have planned a better tactic than trying to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story if he tried.