Polymarket FBI raid shows Biden Justice Department has gone full banana republic

The Biden Justice Department has decided to go out the way it came in: as a blunt weapon wielded against perceived political enemies.That, at least, is what the FBI raid against Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan looks like.At 6 a.m.Wednesday, agents stormed his home to demand his phone and other devices.Why?Officially, as part of a criminal probe into the platform for allowing US users to bet on politics via VPN, in contravention of a previous agreement Polymarket made with regulators at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. That’s pretty deep in the weeds for a predawn raid.

Normally, you go to the guy’s lawyers first.In fact, Justice’s record since 2021 dictates seeing this as straight-up political persecution until proven otherwise. One big example: Look at how the FBI splashily raided Mar-a-Lago over Trump’s keeping classified documents there, while President Biden’s own, near-identical document crimes met an insanely muted response.Under Attorney General Merrick Garland, Justice bent over backward to let Hunter Biden walk free, until a heroic judge stopped the rush to give him carte-blanche immunity in an unprecedented plea deal. Despite Hunter’s endlessly, amply documented nefandous acts: influence peddling, and tax crimes, and gun crimes, and crack, and hookers and on and on and on. And suddenly the FBI is leaping into action because  .

..  a betting platform allegedly doesn’t have enough anti-VPN safeguards?How on earth is that an enforcement priority? Coplan’s real sin looks to be running a company that dared to let people bet that Donald Trump would win the presidential election — a market that showed Trump to be ahead even as polling suggested a much closer race with Kamala Harris.That threatened the narrative Democrats were pushing: Criminal! Morning Report and Evening Update: Your source for today's top stories Please provide a valid email address.

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