For more than a decade, Democratic party politicians have escaped accountability for their conduct through a series of favorable actions taken by other Democrats and members of the government.

The party has accomplished this in several ways while weaponizing the government against Republicans – particularly President Donald Trump – at the same time.

The easiest avenue to avoid potential prosecution is through presidential pardons. President Joe Biden took this a step further by providing advance pardons to certain political figures who were likely to be the subject of investigations once a Republican president entered office.

The most well-known example is Biden’s own son Hunter, who was convicted on federal firearms charges and pleaded guilty to tax offenses. In the closing days of his presidency, Biden pardoned his son not only for the crimes he had been convicted of and pleaded guilty to, but any crimes he “may have committed or taken part in” between January 1, 2014, through December 1, 2024. Biden had repeatedly said he would not issue a pardon for his son, but went back on his word.

This was not the only pardon of its kind from Biden. Around the same time, he issued similar pardons for former NIH director Anthony Fauci, other members of Biden’s family, and anyone who investigated the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol, most notably U.S. Sen. Adam Schiff, who has been accused of approving the leaking of classified information to smear Trump, Just the News previously reported.

On July 5, 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey cleared Hillary Clinton of criminal wrongdoing for using an unsecure and private email server to transmit classified information. Even though the law said intent is irrelevant, Comey claimed otherwise, saying he found no intentional misconduct and therefore would not charge Clinton.

“[A]lthough there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case,” Comey said at the time.

He gave his speech shortly after then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch met with former President Bill Clinton on a Phoenix tarmac.

When the IRS tried to investigate Hunter Biden’s failure to pay taxes, they were obstructed from accessing evidence, Just the News previously reported. IRS supervisory criminal investigative agent Gary Shapley told Congress in 2023 that the FBI had testimony and text messages that showed Joe Biden likely met with Hunter Biden’s Chinese business partners, but was shut down from investigating.

“Based on guidance provided by the prosecutors on a recurring basis to not look into anything related to President Biden, there is no way of knowing if evidence of other criminal activity existed concerning Hunter Biden or President Biden,” Shapley testified.

In the matter of Hunter, Shapley and another IRS agent, who were later granted whistleblower status, said they had compelling evidence that Hunter failed to pay taxes for years, but were blocked from further investigation. The statute of limitations was allowed to expire on any charges Hunter might have faced for those crimes.

“It was a conscious decision by DOJ to let that run,” Shapley testified. “They could’ve had them extend ’14 and ’15, but they said no […] Letting a statute of limitations expire in an active criminal investigation is not normal.”

In November 2025, Judge Cameron McGowan Currie – a Bill Clinton appointee – dismissed legal cases against Comey and former New York Attorney General Letita James, arguing that Trump’s appointment of Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney was unlawful, PBS reported.

Another federal judge – Obama-appointed U.S. District Judge Lorna Schofield – also dismissed subpoenas against James issued by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York for the same reason, Just the News previously reported.

In a similar fashion, grand juries in overwhelmingly Democrat jurisdictions have also declined to prosecute Democrats, including a grand jury in Alexandria, Va., and Norfolk, Va.

Conversely, grand juries in heavily Democratic New York City indicted Trump on 34 felony counts for payments to porn actress Stormy Daniels after she alleged an affair with the business mogul prior to the 2016 election. The alleged crimes Trump faced were misdemeanors, but Democrats in the state elevated them to felonies by claiming the “hush money” constituted an unreported campaign expenditure.

A New York state jury also determined that Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll by defending himself against her uncorroborated accusations of rape. That same jury determined Trump did not rape Carroll, but still claimed he sexually abused her, even though no evidence exists to support her claim and Carroll claims to not even remember the year the alleged incident took place.

In rare cases, a Democrat will face punishment for weaponization of the government, but it more often than not will be minor.

Kevin Clinesmith, who pleaded guilty to falsifying a document used to continue spying on Trump’s 2016 campaign, faced five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000. He ended up receiving one year of probation and 400 hours of community service.

The judge in the case, James Boasberg, argued that he didn’t believe Clinesmith meant to deceive when he purposefully altered an email showing that former Trump aide Carter Page had worked with the CIA. Clinesmith removed that information, making it appear as though Page had no reason to engage with anyone from Russia, fueling the federal government’s investigation into Trump’s campaign.

“Mr. Clinesmith likely believed that what he said was true,” Boasberg wrote in his ruling, adding, “I do not believe he was attempting to achieve an end he knew was wrong.” The judge claimed that “it is not clear to me that the fourth FISA warrant would not have been signed but for this error […] even if Mr. Clinesmith had been accurate about Mr. Page’s relationship with the other government agency, the warrant may well have been signed, and the surveillance authorized.”

When it was discovered that Joe Biden, as vice president under Obama, kept classified documents in his garage at his home and shared them with an author, he avoided prosecution when Special Counsel Robert Hur said a jury was unlikely to convict. It “would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him — by then a former president well into his eighties — of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness,” Hur wrote in his decision, Just the News previously reported.

“Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,” Hur added.

Conversely, Trump was indicted for storing classified documents at his Florida resort, even though as president he had the authority to declassify those documents.

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