This excellent piece from PBS NEWS HOUR reported on with
this headline triggered my post which follows below:
“Trump allies in Congress
leap to defend former president after federal indictment”
That headline follows Trump’s first federal indictment and now two
others have followed with a fourth pending in GA and expected soon since their
Grand Jury starts meeting on August 14 in Atlanta.
Fact: Democrats
have allowed the justice system to run its course regarding the Hunter Biden
investigation. That is a courtesy that Republicans haven't returned when regarding
the now-three indictments filed against Trump.
As noted in the PBS
article: When Trump got indicted, Republicans and Trump attack prosecutors,
the judges, and the entire judicial system. Trump can never be guilty of
anything in their eyes, even now when he currently faces 78 felony charges spread across three indictments
and the fourth pending in GA as I noted above.
In all those cases, Trump has pleaded not guilty while
accusing them of being a politically-motivated witch hunt, including charges
related to claims (1) that he orchestrated a hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the
2016 presidential election, (2) he mishandled 100’s of highly classified
documents at various places, and (3) how he broke the law attempting to reverse
the 2020 election outcome that resulted in the January 6 Capitol insurrection
intended to reverse the EC count in his favor.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)
– who is also a constitutional law professor and legal expert – called the
Biden investigation bumpy saying: “From my perspective, it is the rule of
law and the justice system working itself out the way that it does and,
obviously, it's bumpy and this side or that side doesn't necessarily prefer
this course of events. But our job, I think, as political people is to allow
the justice system to run its course.”
Republicans use the Hunter Biden investigation as an attempt
to pin charges on President Biden, who continues to maintain that he had no
knowledge of his son's business dealings.
For example:
Devon
Archer, former friend and business partner of Hunter Biden testified before the
Comer House Oversight Committee in July saying: “Hunter called his father
many times during business dealings over a 10-year period, never discussing business
deals as Hunter was simply selling the illusion of access to his father.”
Now, and suddenly, but not totally unexpected, this Trump-owned GOP refuses to even believe that from their own witnesses plus the convicted felon (Gal Luft) who fled from that justice after being marketed as a “star witness” by Rep. Comer.
But, boy oh boy, what a flop that turned out to
be. Now too, Comer is silent as a church mouse on all that and the Luft fiasco.
FYI: My recent post on this topic is linked here.
My 2 Cents: Its things like that above which keep the country
divided and on edge and at the boiling point as this GOP complains about without
actually blaming any of it on Trump or themselves.
All this GOP-run House has
done since 2022 is work hard to keep the focus on the DEMS and now the entire
Biden family – as Rep. Comer (R-KY) recently stated.
The GOP motto seems to be: “Do all we can, anything at all, to support and prop up Trump to help him get this revenge on anyone not a Republican” or so it seems for 2024.
That’s all I have right
now on this. It’s plenty and a lot more is yet to come from this Trump-owned
and operated GOP. Be prepared.
Thanks for stopping by.
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