Posted on 06/10/2023 5:01:06 PM PDT by cotton1706
New York Times columnist and the supposedly conservative half of PBS NewsHour’s weekly Friday Brooks and Capehart panel was dismayed that even “supposedly mature and moderate” Republicans were decrying President Trump’s latest indictment as “selective prosecution.” Washington Post columnist and pinch hitter Ruth Marcus went even further, labelling it “sickening.”
Host Geoff Bennett led Brooks with an unrelated question about the trial being held in Florida which would mean the jury pool will be far less liberal than in New York City, “it's harder for him to make a convincing argument that he's being railroaded when it's happening in — on his home turf, as I said?”
Brooks pleaded ignorant, citing is lack of law school experience and turned the conversation back to the political reaction, “If you're running against Donald Trump for president, your job is to take this day and say, ‘see, that guy's not qualified to be president.’ That's like, simple.”
Unfortunately for Brooks that has not happened, “Does Ron DeSantis do that? No. Does Tim Scott do that? No. They're all — they're all jumping on the, it's prosecutive — it's weaponizing the justice system. They're jumping on that, Mike Lee in the Senate. Glenn Youngkin, the supposedly mature and moderate governor of Virginia, he was like ‘selective prosecution.’
Earlier in the show, Bennett had on law professor and former Bush official Jamil Jaffer who argued that it could be possible to compare Trump’s case to Hillary Clinton’s e-mail server. Nevertheless, Brooks continued lamenting about how “he's using this as a political gift, which, for the time being, it seems to be, at least in the Republican Party.”
Marcus then replied that Trump’s reaction was predictable, “But the really sickening thing is what you say about the rest of the party rallying around him.
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Marcus then replied that Trump’s reaction was predictable, “But the really sickening thing is what you say about the rest of the party rallying around him.
Trans-republicans on FR are seething as well.
“Marcus then replied that Trump’s reaction was predictable, “But the really sickening thing is what you say about the rest of the party rallying around him.
Good news today...................”
I wonder what her thoughts were when the entire Democrat party rallied around Bill Clinton.
I don’t know why RINO’s don’t know what is going on here...any of these cases could have been made on any past president....its just nonsense all his files are classified...there are boxes just his white house files...this is just weaponization of DOJ...TDS messes with people’s thought patterns....think if this happened to Obama...they would be riots in the street violence...it would be crazy.
LOL this from the same political party that goes after their political opponents like they do in Venezuela and Pakistan..If Trump should be prosecuted, so should Hillary Clinton for DESTROYING evidence, using bleach bit, hammers to destroy laptops, and Joe Biden, for selling his documents to the highest bidder, for getting a 5 million dollar bribe, half went to Obama
Defund this propaganda outlet already!
We pay for this crap?
More proof that: The only good communists are dead communists...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as possible...
If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...
Pee, B.S.: State run media
PBS...state controlled media...
Just take taxpayer money away. Simple and elegant solution that solves the problem.
Judge should toss the whole case on the principle no harm no foul.
Exactly what it is, otherwise, Hillary would have been given a blindfold, cigarette, and stood against a wall a long time ago.
Unfortunately.
No, your job is to be an American and say INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY, THIS IS NOT PAKISTAN!
Stopped reading right there.
Selective Persecution
Exactly!
It IS Selective Prosecution AND Persecution.
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