 So, a major theme of the right, including the distant right over the past few weeks is that Sam Banquan Freed has just been getting away with it because he donated so much money to the Democrats, and it's not a theme that I've amplified, but it's not something that I've considered very important that I need to discuss, it's not something that kept me up at night, it's not something that I was angry about, I just ignored it, didn't seem like a strong case, and now Sam Banquan Freed is indeed being arrested and charged with fraud. So prosecutors often take a lot more time to build a case than ordinary people think is justified, but you can't just intuit the law, just because it seems like someone's committed fraud doesn't mean that prosecutors have sufficient evidence and have assembled a strong enough case to arrest someone. So, this right-wing paranoia that Sam Banquan Freed was getting away with it because he was a major donor to the Democrats, he was being treated more leniently by Joe Biden's Justice Department, that he'd been given a free pass to commit massive amounts of fraud. All right, well the Justice Department is just going after Donald Trump, but it's not going after Democrats. Well, Sam Banquan Freed is now being arrested and indicted. I think that undercuts that paranoia and that conspiratorial mindset. So yeah, Sam Banquan Freed donated nearly $40 million to Democrats, but there's no evidence that he was going to get away with it. So Tucker Carlson was claiming Biden's Justice Department seems not very interested in the man care order, Sam Banquan Freed. Well, why is that? Maybe it's because Sam Banquan Freed was the Democratic Party's second and biggest donor of this cycle. Right, that's just nonsense of paranoia. Elon Musk said Sam Banquan Freed was a major Democratic donor, so no investigation. Jesse Waters was echoing the same thing, Jeanine Pirro on Fox News. Do we have a two-tiered system of justice? Tucker Carlson said last week Sam Banquan Freed was the second biggest donor of the Democratic Party for hearing the Justice Department is looking into him. He's going to get away with it, said Tucker. Well, he's been arrested as a sweeping eight-count indictment against him. It includes campaign finance violations. Right, it takes time to build white-collar cases. Yeah, Bernie Madoff was arrested shortly after his misdeeds came to light, but the situations are not comparable. Right, Bernie Madoff's scheme was revealed by Bernie Madoff himself. He confessed the whole thing to his sons. He then told the FBI. His sons called the FBI. Two days later, two agents showed up at Bernie Madoff's home and asked whether there were innocent explanations for what Madoff had told his sons. Bernie Madoff replied there was no innocent explanation. Right, on the other hand, Sam Banquan Freed was not anxious to confess. He's repeatedly rejected the idea that his actions amounted to fraud. So why was the arrest of Sam Banquan Freed on Monday suspicious timing? Because he was due to appear remotely on Tuesday to a House committee where Republicans planned to drill him. So now, from the Republican perspective, Sam Banquan Freed was not arrested too late but too early, says this excellent Washington Post article. So there's no real reason to believe the Justice Department is timing all this to help the Democrats.