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‘No person is above the law': Conn. delegation responds to Trump indictment
NBC Connecticut ^

Posted on 06/09/2023 8:21:13 PM PDT by matt04

Multiple Connecticut delegates are responding to the news of former President Donald Trump's indictment.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal said that "no person is above the law," and Trump should be punished because it doesn't matter how powerful a person is.

"A grand jury has decided to charge former President Trump after an intensive investigation lasting many months. Our justice system has an obligation to pursue the facts and law wherever they lead. Former President Trump will have the same rights as any criminal defendant and the justice system will presume him innocent until proven guilty.”

Representative Jim Himes (D-4th District) also issued a statement about the indictment, calling it a serious matter.

“Having been a Member of the House Intelligence Committee for more than10 years, it is my experience that classified information is generally classified for a good reason, namely that the unauthorized disclosure of information can compromise sources and methods, damage our national security, and cost lives. For that reason, the removal of classified material from a secure space is an exceptionally serious matter, made all the more serious if the individual responsible for its removal does so intentionally and discloses the information to outside individuals."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcconnecticut.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: blumenthal; danangdick; donatedonaldtrump; donatetrump; harassment; persecution; tds; trump
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Oh, look the fake Vietnam vet has come out of hiding.
1 posted on 06/09/2023 8:21:13 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

Blumey the Demoscat Fascist.


2 posted on 06/09/2023 8:22:55 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: matt04

Yeah yeah I know no person is above the law, except Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, the entire Biden family, Barack Obama..I can go on and on and on, oh wait, what do they all have in common, let’s see..oh I know, they are ALL Democrats and Democrats are ALWAYS above the law


3 posted on 06/09/2023 8:24:32 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: matt04

Trump is below the law.


4 posted on 06/09/2023 8:24:34 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Kennedys. Don’t forget Kennedys.

Apologies to RFK Jr., but it’s true.


5 posted on 06/09/2023 8:25:58 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: matt04

Well, except for important Democrats like the Clintons, Obama or Bidens ... the law lets them slide even as they invent stuff against us..


6 posted on 06/09/2023 8:26:08 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“President Obama appointed [in 2009] Ferriero to simultaneously head the new National Declassification Center, which had ‘been given four years to go through 400 million pages of federal documents that remain top secret. They date to World War I.’”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Ferriero


7 posted on 06/09/2023 8:29:42 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (SPENDING STRIKE: No new car/new house/additional gun - No meals out/stock buy/travel/home remodels)
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To: matt04

Only law is above the law.


8 posted on 06/09/2023 8:31:02 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) My dog Sam eats purple flowers.)
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To: matt04

Blumenthal an idiot. Almost all democrat thugs are above the law... Take one look at the big guy and his whore monger son...


9 posted on 06/09/2023 8:32:18 PM PDT by GOPJ (Target, Busch and Disney support sexual mutilation and sterilization of children. Boycott )
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Kennedys. Don’t forget Kennedys.

Man is that ever true.

LBJ had quite a body count too. Plus he broke whatever laws he felt like on any given day, did so for years.

Today one of NASA's most important sites, with more than 3000 employees and 100+ buildings, is named after him.

10 posted on 06/09/2023 8:32:30 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Along with Gyorgy Schwartz.


11 posted on 06/09/2023 8:33:45 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Chgogal

Excellent point.


12 posted on 06/09/2023 8:33:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: matt04

Only the brain dead believe any of this crap. The scary part is the system knows this and they don’t care.
We know. They know we know. We know they know we know. And so on. And it doesn’t make any difference.


13 posted on 06/09/2023 8:34:25 PM PDT by GrumpyOldGuy
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RE: Almost all democrat thugs are above the law.

Right. We’re supposed to overlook that so they can be sanctimonious hypocrites. No dice.

We’re going to remember each one that got away with something.


14 posted on 06/09/2023 8:35:24 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Really?

What about Hillary Clinton (who the FBI let off)?


15 posted on 06/09/2023 8:45:55 PM PDT by Tzimisce ( )
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I guess members of the deep state aren’t persons then.


16 posted on 06/09/2023 8:46:40 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: matt04

Mr. Stolen Valor schools us on the law.


17 posted on 06/09/2023 8:47:28 PM PDT by vivenne
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To: matt04

Quotes from Wikipedia:

Himes was born on July 5, 1966, in Lima, Peru, to American parents. His father, James R. Himes, worked for the Ford Foundation in Lima. His father was also the director of the UNICEF Innocenti Center, a research institute on child development in Florence, Italy. His mother, Judith A. Himes, was until recently the director of board activities for the New Jersey Board of Higher Education in Trenton.

In 1995, Himes began working at Goldman Sachs as a banker in Latin America and New York. He was eventually promoted to vice president.

Himes was appointed commissioner of the Greenwich Housing Authority in 2002, and served for two years as chairman of the board.

Himes was also an elected member of the Greenwich Board of Estimate and Taxation and chaired the Greenwich Democratic Town Committee.

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence gives him a 100% lifetime score for his support of more gun regulations.

Himes voted against H.R. 2397, which was to defund the NSA domestic phone metadata spying program.

In 2016, Himes lobbied the Electoral College to refuse to vote for Donald Trump and to instead elect Hillary Clinton. On December 12, 2016, in an interview on CNN’s New Day, he said he was troubled by several of Trump’s actions. The issue that “pushed me over the edge” was Trump’s criticism of the CIA and the intelligence community.

2008

Shays was the sole Republican congressman from New England, and Himes’s win made New England’s House delegation entirely Democratic for the first time in history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Himes


18 posted on 06/09/2023 8:50:08 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (SPENDING STRIKE: No new car/new house/additional gun - No meals out/stock buy/travel/home remodels)
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To: matt04

Bullshit! Bill and Hillary Clinton are.


19 posted on 06/09/2023 8:51:56 PM PDT by sport
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To: matt04

ARTICLE II
SECTION 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States.


20 posted on 06/09/2023 8:54:16 PM PDT by Brian Griffin (SPENDING STRIKE: No new car/new house/additional gun - No meals out/stock buy/travel/home remodels)
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