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 former President Donald Trump keeping classified documents there, while President Biden’s own, nearly identical document crimes brought 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 appalling acts: influence peddling, tax crimes, gun crimes, crack, 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!
Also, Trump-coded Peter Thiel backs Polymarket, and Coplan has been photographed looking pally with the prez-elect.
Therefore — and this highlights the deep insanity of today’s Dem elite — he’s guilty of something, and anything goes.
This raid is banana republic stuff, and makes a mockery of the left’s worries that Trump would be weaponizing law enforcement against his foes.
These freaks are fine with political persecution, as long as it’s against people they don’t like.
It’s an ugly look indeed for Biden’s final days in office: His minions are cementing a legacy of lawlessness as he heads off into an ignominious sunset.
