Oh, so do I. But that's an assumption, not a guarantee.
If he's not squeaky clean, the MSM will use that to clobber him and make him out the bad guy who deserves what he gets.
I'm not saying that's right, it's just the way it is.
Maybe that's why the more Conservative DC politicians are wary.
I'd be surprised if they aren't checking into it at the level of staffers, though.
If he’s not squeaky clean, the MSM would have found something on him already.
Remember that this region has a history of the BLM running people off their ranches, for various trumped-up “reasons”.
But whether Bundy is squeaky clean or legally in the right is not the only issue; the issue is that we have an armed federal bureacracy that is so vast, so powerful, so out of touch with the people, and so tyrannical in nature that they fail to recognize (or perhaps simply don't care about) the impact on public trust and popular sentiment incurred by
(i) taking away a mans livelihood by limiting the number of cattle permitted to graze as a condition of renewing his grazing rights on a property his family has stewarded since before there was a BLM
(ii) using their unlimited resources to wear him down emotionally and financially in the courts over a period of decades and finally
(iii) trying to take his cattle through direct force, with a para-military assault under dubious pretenses.
Rand Paul is the only one who has addressed THIS issue ("The federal government shouldn’t violate the law, nor should we have 48 federal agencies carrying weapons and having SWAT teams") as far as I know.
“:If he’s not squeaky clean, the MSM will use that to clobber him and make him out the bad guy who deserves what he gets.”
Not necessarily true.
Cause trouble, insurrectionists shake their fists and brandish their weapons, cuss and pound tables. Look foolish in general. Best way to convince the ‘undecided’ to steer clear of Conservatism which the left has successfully linked to the insurrectionists, willingly I may add.
Marginalize, chastise, demonize then finally criminalize. The insurrectionists fall for it every time.