The Biden administration has been accused of numerous instances of “lawfare,” that is, of using the legal system to persecute and intimidate political opponents and dissidents, in many cases jailing Americans who disagree with far left policies.
The latest example was highlighted last week by journalist Christopher Rufo, who published an article in the City Journal. Rufo revealed, after speaking with a whistleblower and nurse at the Texas Children’s Hospital, Vanessa Sivadge, that doctors there had been committing Medicaid fraud, thereby forcing taxpayers to pay for transgender surgeries for minors.
The FBI then showed up at her house at the named whistleblower’s house, allegedly threatening to make her unsafe.
“They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI,” said Sivadge, speaking to Rufo.
Sivadge revealed that two of the hospital’s most prominent doctors, Richard Roberts and David Paul, were falsifying Medicaid records in order to make the taxpayer-funded program pay for transgender surgeries and treatments for minors, despite Texas law forbidding the use of taxpayer funds for transgender procedures.
She even saw evidence that the doctors were pressuring parents into accepting gender transitions for their children.
After she spoke with Rufo, two FBI agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, appeared outside her house.
The agents were caught on video by a security camera on Sivadge’s door, asking to be let inside to speak with her about things going on at the hospital.
The video ends when the agents go inside, which is when Sivadge says that she was threatened.
Sivadge is far from the only person to face threats or prosecution from the Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI, and her situation is far from the most severe.
During President Joe Biden’s time in office, numerous people have faced legal penalties after disagreeing with the regime’s far-left policies.
President Biden’s political persecutions have included numerous prosecutions, armed FBI raids on pro-lifers, and, most famously, the widely ridiculed conviction of his primary political opponent, former Republican President Donald Trump.
Sivadge is not even the only whistleblower from the Texas Children’s Hospital to face persecution by the Biden regime.
In 2022, the hospital announced that it would shut down its gender clinic for minors following public outcry and a suggestion from the Texas Attorney General that the gender transition of minors constituted child abuse and thus violated state law.
After that announcement, the hospital continued gender treatments for minors as young as 11 — this time in secret.
That fact was revealed by a hospital surgeon, Eithan Haim, who felt morally obliged to expose the hospital’s ilicit practices.
After he blew the whistle on his employer, Haim was approached by federal agents and was later threatened with prosecution by Tina Ansari, a federal attorney.
Earlier this month, Haim was officially charged with four felony counts of illegally obtaining confidential patient information.
He has pled not guilty, but the verdict has not yet been delivered.
Biden and his Attorney General, Merrick Garland, have made prosecutions and persecutions of political dissidents commonplace since the early days of his administration, when his DOJ focused its efforts on hunting down anyone related to the protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, which Democrats have consistently labeled an insurrection.
According to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s office, 1,424 people were arrested and charged in connection with the protest as of May, although not all of them were ultimately convicted.
The number nevertheless represents over a thousand political opponents of the Biden regime facing charges for “insurrection” despite video evidence that authorities allowed protesters into the Capitol.
According to the release, 541 people have been incarcerated, and 884 have been convicted following their trials.
The Attorney’s Office also bragged that 145 defendants have been sentenced to up to 151 months, over 12 years, in prison.
Following the protest, it was revealed that the Biden Administration was holding some of the protestors in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours per day while they were awaiting trials.
The decision to hold untried U.S. citizens in solitary confinement even drew criticism from some Democrats.
In addition to going after January 6th protestors, Biden, who claims to be a devout and practicing Catholic, has led his DOJ in a crusade against pro-life activists.
In 2023, a progressive pro-lifer, and member of the Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising (PAAU) group, drew the Biden Administration’s attention.
Elise Ketch is a vocal advocate for pro-life causes and was previously arrested while protesting peacefully in Washington, D.C., although she was freed shortly thereafter.
After sparking the DOJ’s interest through her activism, she became the subject of an FBI inquiry.
FBI agents appeared at Ketch’s family home, asking her mother about her whereabouts.
The agents refused to explain the reason for their visit other than telling Ketch’s mother that they wanted to talk with her, and that she wasn’t in trouble.
“We would tell you all the information because, like I said, she’s not in any trouble, but just out of respect for her, we’d like to speak with her first,” said the FBI agents.
The FBI never followed up on the visit, and Ketch was not charged with any crimes.
She believes that the FBI may have intended to intimidate her out of her pro-life activism by their visit.
“This weaponization of our government institutions protects the abortion industrial complex, and it reinforces that we must disrupt these unjust power structures,” said Ketch, speaking to the Daily Signal.
Despite recieving a visit from the FBI, Ketch has fared far better than other pro-lifers who were noticed by the DOJ, many of whom were not lucky enough to avoid prosecution.
In 2022, numerous FBI agents, in more than a dozen vehicles, converged on the home of Catholic pro-life activist Mark Houck.
The FBI agents surrounded the house with guns drawn before arresting Houck in front of his wife and several children.
Houck, who routinely protested peacefully outside of abortion facilities and often brought his 12-year-old son, was charged for allegedly shoving a belligerent abortion activist who was shouting obscenities at Houck’s son while approaching him aggressively.
Initially, Houck was forced to pay $10,000 bail and was barred from the sidewalk outside the abortion clinic. He was eventually acquitted in June 2023.
Another politically prosecution against pro-life activists, sparked by a peaceful protest in 2021, did not ultimately end in acquittal.
That prosecution began with the arrest of 11 pro-life protestors, who peacefully prayed in front of the door of an abortion clinic.
The protestors were charged with violating the Clinton Era Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) act, for blocking access to the clinic.
As they did with Houck, FBI agents arrested the 11 with numerous agents and guns drawn.
Armed agents raided the home of Chester Gallagher, who was 73, while he was away, and questioned his neighbors before arresting him later on.
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Video shows that a similar raid was carried out against Paul Vaughn, another man who attended the protest.
Following a lengthy legal process, which was not concluded until the start of this year, six of the protestors were convicted, and now face up to 10.5 years in prison along with $260,000 in fines.
The protestors’ sentencing hearing is scheduled for July.
One woman convicted for the protest, Heather Idoni, 59, claimed that she spent 22 days in solitary confinement.
Earlier this month, Biden’s DOJ made headlines again for sentencing a 75-year-old pro-life woman, Paulette Harlow, to two years in prison for a 2020 violation of the FACE Act.
Harlow currently has numerous health issues and uses a wheelchair.
She was the last of ten people to be sentenced in that case; one of the other convicted pro-lifers is Harlow’s 74-year-old sister.
The Biden Administration has never shied away from prosecuting everyday Americans, and has even taken action against people for social media posts.
A Maine veteran became the subject of an investigation by the Secret Service after he posted jokes about Biden on social media.
The man sparked the attention of the Secret Service when they decided that he had made statements of “unusual interest” towards the Biden family.
These statements included some insults and a post joking about Biden wearing “Depends,” a brand of adult diapers.
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The Secret Service knowingly pursued that investigation, based on a joking social media post, despite only having the authority to investigate citizens who have made credible threats.
After extensively investigating the man, and acquiring numerous personal details, the Secret Service discovered no threats, and the man did not face any criminal charges.
After Biden took office, another X user, Douglass Mackey, was sentenced to seven months in prison for “conspiracy against rights,” after he made posts obviously satirical posts during the 2016 election.
In the posts which led to the conviction, Mackey told Democrat voters that they could vote over text message, something which was deemed a conspiracy against their rights, because voting over text is not, in fact, a valid way to vote.
Accounts aimed at telling Trump voters they, too, could vote by text do not appear to have resulted in any investigations, despite considerable social media attention at the time and after.
He was not convicted until 2023, seven years after making the online statements.
As Biden was busy cracking down on pro-lifers, whistleblowers, and everyday Americans, state level Democrats were following his lead by cracking down on people opposed to the Pride movement.
Earlier this month, a group of Washington teens were arrested after they drove electric scooters across a pride flag mural, which was painted on the street, leaving tire marks.
After police hunted down the teens, one of them, Ruslan Turko, the only one over 18, was charged with felony first degree mischief.
Those charges are normally reserved for vandalism that causes over $5,000 in damage or causes damage to emergency vehicles or airplanes and carries a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison.
In Florida, police initiated a manhunt in search of someone who left tire marks on a rainbow flag painted on the street.
Biden’s DOJ has also been busy attempting to prosecute media personalities, former Trump associates, and the President himself.
In 2022, Alex Jones, a prominent media personality who has been critical of the Biden Administration, was fined $965 million in a defamation trial.
Jones had previously called into question the truth of the Sandy Hook school shooting, alleging that distraught parents who appeared in news coverage of the mass shooting were crisis actors. He was ordered to pay the an unprecedented sum in restitution to the victims families, a payment that may cause his far might media platform, InfoWars, to enter bankruptcy.
Earlier this month, Steven K. Bannon, a prominent conservative media personality who served as an advisor during the Trump Administration, was ordered to report to jail following a 2022 Contempt of Congress conviction.
Bannon was convicted after refusing to provide a deposition and documents relating to the January 6 protests.
His sentence was stayed in 2022, pending an appeals process. His appeal was subsequently rejected, and he has been ordered to report to prison for a four-month sentence beginning July 1. Whether Bannon will actually serve jail time may hinge on an upcoming vote in the House of Representatives to reject the legitimacy of the congressional committed that originally subpoenaed Bannon.
A similar fate befell Peter Navarro, who directed Trump’s Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.
Navarro was also sentenced to four months in prison after failing to provide documents related to the January 6 protests.
The conviction of Trump is, of course, the most famous of all of Biden’s “lawfare” prosecutions.
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At the end of May, Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a New York trial which largely focused on hush money payments made to an alleged former mistress from before he became president.
The trial is widely believed to be politically motivated, and sparked national outrage from Trump supporters and other Americans who saw it as an example of Biden’s weaponization and abuse of the law.
Despite consistently weaponizing law and federal agencies against political dissidents since the start of his regime, Biden has maintained that it is Trump who intends to take legal action to oppress Democrats if he wins re-election.
At the same time, Biden’s allies in the Democratic Party and the corporate media have fear-mongered that Trump may seek reprisals against those government officials responsible for the campaign of lawfare.
This is what dictators do. Keep voting democrat for much worse. Look at what Maine has become under democrat reign. I dont even recognize it anymore and I was born here brought up here.
The Texas Children’s Hospital should have “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here” posted prominently at the front entrance.
The Texas Children’s Hospital should have “Abandon hope, all ye who enter here” displayed prominently above the entrance.
And the Eagles’ “Welcome to the Hotel California” should be playing on a loop, so that these eerie lines sink in:
“You can check out any time you want, but you can never leave.”
Actually, the whole verse seems apropos
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
“Relax,” said the night man
“We are programmed to receive
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave”: