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Moderate House GOP member: "I trust the system"
CNN ^ | 3/31/23 | Annie Grayer

Posted on 03/31/2023 3:35:57 AM PDT by cotton1706

While a number of Donald Trump’s Capitol Hill allies have been quick to defend the former president and criticize the indictment, one moderate Republican told CNN he trusted the legal system.

“I believe in the rule of law," said Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska. "I think we have checks and balances and I trust the system.”

Bacon said it was important to let the process play out.

“We have a judge. We have jurors. There is appeals. So I think in the end, justice will be done. If he’s guilty it will show up. But if not, I think that will be shown too,” Bacon told CNN.

Bacon stressed that his statements were not about whether he supported a Trump indictment or not, but about protecting the legal system.

“It’s not that I support or not support it. I just think our system works and I’m not going to question it. I don’t like the attacks on the overall legal system,” he said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Nebraska
KEYWORDS: 0backstabber; cuck; cuckservative; donbacon; elections; nebraska; rinoclown; surrendermonkey
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To: cotton1706

Don Bacon is a moron.


21 posted on 03/31/2023 4:02:29 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: cotton1706

Congress has the power to declare Martial Law. I think they should. As Popeye says, “that’s all I can stand, I can’t stand no more!”


22 posted on 03/31/2023 4:03:34 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist (Those who give up some freedom for some liberty deserve neither.)
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To: cotton1706

“Moderate Republican” == “RINO” == “Traitor”


23 posted on 03/31/2023 4:04:07 AM PDT by sipow
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To: cotton1706
Trust the system

People said the same thing about Mike Nifong who, for political purposes alone, had three Duke lacrosse team members arrested when there was NEVER any evidence they'd committed a crime.

Trump's indictment is the same thing writ large.

DA Mike Nifong goes to jail

24 posted on 03/31/2023 4:04:30 AM PDT by Locomotive Breath
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To: cotton1706

Deep State’s lackeys are outting themselves.

Fine by me.


25 posted on 03/31/2023 4:07:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: noiseman

Unfortunately the alternative plan has been gutted by years of marxist tampering.
We cannot fix this with the constitution because the enemy thinks its a useless piece of paper.
The failsafes have been removed.


26 posted on 03/31/2023 4:09:06 AM PDT by GranTorino (Bloody Lips Save Ships.)
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To: cotton1706

“I think our system works”

LOL

I hope you get the help that you need


27 posted on 03/31/2023 4:12:43 AM PDT by Freedom4US
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To: cotton1706

There is no evidence of these checks and balances so far.


28 posted on 03/31/2023 4:13:04 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: cotton1706

Quisling.


29 posted on 03/31/2023 4:17:30 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: TTFlyer

I have been pounding this drum for several years.


30 posted on 03/31/2023 4:18:10 AM PDT by Howie66 (Let's Go Brandon!!)
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To: TTFlyer

Exactly. And those Republicans here who don’t see through their never Trump glasses are also part of the problem. Uncharted waters and guess who they come after next!


31 posted on 03/31/2023 4:18:36 AM PDT by TermLimits4All (Voting booths don't matter. Results are already baked and we're just useless pawns. )
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To: cotton1706

So some anonymous RINO.

Totally credible. LOL!


32 posted on 03/31/2023 4:19:54 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: cotton1706

It’s shocking someone this naïve or stupid can be in power. Maybe he’s corrupt which would make sense.


33 posted on 03/31/2023 4:20:21 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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Does he bother to read the news into what’s happening?


34 posted on 03/31/2023 4:21:24 AM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: cotton1706

Trust the system? What?

YOU can trust it if you want. I don’t think the “system” has shown itself to be TRUSTWORTHY.


35 posted on 03/31/2023 4:22:32 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: cotton1706

Politics in Washington DC is now at about the same level as a “professional” tag team wrestling match with one side the “good guys”,
naively playing by the rules, and the other side the dirty, scheming, rule breaking bad guys.

In Washington one political party professes to believe in the system and vows to play by the rules while the other political party laughs
at them and runs amok with their ill gotten power.


36 posted on 03/31/2023 4:23:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro ( Michael Byrd: "Well, Somebody had to do it - Babbitt wasn't gonna' shoot herself!")
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To: cotton1706

Left and right do not trust the system. That is why it is going to collapse.


37 posted on 03/31/2023 4:27:37 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (This is the end of the Republic....because we could not keep it.)
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To: Recompennation

In NYC, there’s no way Trump escapes a conviction. Change of venue to another county is needed.


38 posted on 03/31/2023 4:29:46 AM PDT by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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To: cotton1706

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska is now Rep. Don Toast of Nebraska.


39 posted on 03/31/2023 4:30:43 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Wow, they shut down FOX News pretty quickly!)
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To: cotton1706

Can we please elect some fighters?


40 posted on 03/31/2023 4:32:57 AM PDT by ArcadeQuarters (You can't remove RINOs by voting for them!)
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