Posted on 03/21/2022 8:27:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Not looking good. We can safely say that.
You know, if Trump does win 2024, there’s going to be some
house cleaning > IMO.
He has it pretty well pegged right now.
If they don’t pull a Kennedy on him, he may be able to save
the Republic.
Where are the R’s??? Every republican in Congress should be camped outside the jails.
Instead, other than MTG and a few true Patriots, they seem fine with it all.
I feel so bad for these political prisoners. Our country is rotten in the inside.
“Do you support Pelosi on this issue, the persecution of the Jan 6 protesters?”
Nope, don’t support her on ANY issues, including Ukraine.
It seems provocative in the extreme. It’s not as much of a warning to others as it was designed to elicit an equally extreme response, and they know how ugly they can make it look from what should be a much less comfortable position.
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This is sad. We used to be America.
Biden, Garland, Wray injustice in action.
“Instead, other than MTG and a few true Patriots, they seem fine with it all.”
Are they fine with it all or simply weak men and women vulnerable to blackmail?
In recent years we’ve seen two examples of powerful Republicans brought dow in a strange way that in retrospect seems more like a warning to others to stay in line. The first was former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert who was charged with the crime of structuring bank withdrawals to avoid the law requiring banks to report transactions over $10,000. Hastert was being blackmailed for sexual activities when he was a high school wrestling coach, before he entered Congress. Hastert withdrew his own money from a bank to make blackmail payments, in increments of less than $10,000, to avoid attracting the attention of the government. The bank reported him to the government anyway for a strange pattern of transactions. The government investigators leaked the story of the bank transactions and the bribery to the press. Hastert was tried and convicted of structuring the withdrawals of his own money to circumvent the federal law reporting law. Hastert’s blackmailer was not prosecuted for blackmail, or failing to pay taxes on the blackmail income. This was clearly a targeted effort by forces in the government to publicly destroy Hastert.
Why prosecute Hastert, years after leaving Congress, for withdrawing his own money from the bank, and leaking the sordid details of a blackmail scheme, that wasn’t going to be prosecuted, to the press? Hastert no longer had political office or power so what purpose was served other than reminding vulnerable politicians in office they can be destroyed while in office and years later? The fish, once caught, is always on the hook.
More recently Senator Richard Burr of NC was investigated for insider trading during the early stages of the Covid pandemic when he is alleged to have sold shares of stock based on non public information he was receiving about the pandemic and its economic implications. Burr at the time was Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. The story of the investigation was leaked to the press. Burr stepped down as committee chair and Marco Rubio took his place. In January 2021 the DOJ announced the investigation of Burr was over and no charges would be filed. A few weeks later Burr was one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict then Former President Trump in Trump’s second impeachment trial.
Many senators and congressmen of both parties, including speaker Pelosi, are rumored to have made millions in insider trading but are never prosecuted. Yet suddenly a lame duck senator, who has already announced plans to retire at the end of his term, is investigated and the existence of the investigation is leaked to the press. Even more strange is the fact he resigned his committee chairmanship, but not his seat in the Senate. Why, if he was innocent would he have quit the committee chairmanship? Then Burr votes to convict a president of his own party who carried his state in two presidential elections. Was it coincidental that Senate vote took place only a few weeks after the DOJ publicly announced it would bring no charges against Burr?
Washington DC is a cesspool in which many members of Congress take advantage of insider deals, are involved in sexual impropriety, use campaign funds for personal needs, and take bribes directly or indirectly. Few are exposed, much less prosecuted. When extremely rare press revelations and prosecutions occur they seem to have a bigger purpose than simply bringing a corrupt politician to justice.
Most GOP politicians are strangely silent during a period when the federal government is exercising power in unprecedented ways and the rights of citizens are being trampled. Could it be most of them have vulnerabilities and don’t wish to have the floodlight pointed at their lives?
I, for one, have no doubt.
And as you pointed out, it’s used to make examples of them to warn others to not step out of line, thus allowing the the far more corrupt democrat politicians to continue in the same activities they outwardly condemn in Republicans, unhindered.
To quote Animal house: “You f*ck*d up. You trusted us.”
Over the line, but getting no action on the part of conservatives.
This is why I detest our current Gov. regime more than any foreign enemy. May they rot in hell!!!
The GOP cares more about the Ukraine than their own supporters.
I do not understand the congress and the public allowing this abuse to continue.
Even those who are truly guilty are supposedly due fair and humane treatment while awaiting trial.
Unless the abuse of those accused is stopped and those responsible for it punished, our country and our freedom is history. Over.
Why aren’t there all the videos backed up on private devices? If I take a video, I save it and back up that video on a thumb drive. No one there that day did that? If so, where are all those videos? If Pelosi has 14,000 hours of video, how did she get it? FBI? I guess I don’t understand how Pelosi can legally scarf up all these videos and and hold them.
“Most GOP politicians are strangely silent during a period when the federal government is exercising power in unprecedented ways and the rights of citizens are being trampled. Could it be most of them have vulnerabilities and don’t wish to have the floodlight pointed at their lives?”
You’re right! It all makes sense that way. Unfortunately.
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