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NEW: GOP bracing for Trump indictment soon after Election Day
The Hill ^ | 10/31/22 | BY ALEXANDER BOLTON

Posted on 10/31/2022 2:57:34 PM PDT by RandFan

Republican aides and strategists privately expect Attorney General Merrick Garland to pursue an indictment of former President Trump within 60 to 90 days after Election Day, predicting the window for prosecuting Trump will close once the 2024 presidential campaign gains momentum.

Republican aides on Capitol Hill and veteran party strategists emphasize they don’t have any inside information on what Garland might do, but they say the attorney general is under heavy pressure from Democrats to act and the deadline for pursuing an indictment is fast approaching.

GOP aides also warn that an indictment of Trump by the Biden administration would further polarize the nation and likely strengthen Trump’s support from the Republican Party’s base as the former president and his allies would frame the Department of Justice’s prosecution as a political witch hunt.

“A couple of weeks after the election, I assume that Garland will indict Trump,” said one veteran Republican aide, expressing a sentiment shared by several other GOP aides and strategists.

A second Republican aide warned an indictment “could actually end up helping the [former] president politically.”

“People have been talking about splintering support and dampening enthusiasm among Republican voters for him. An indictment could actually galvanize and reunify Republicans around him,” the aide said, predicting the Republican backlash to an indictment would be stronger if Garland brings an indictment later in the 2024 election cycle.

“There’s a substantial risk in waiting,” the source added.

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


TOPICS: Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alexanderbolton; arrestgarland; fakenews; gopclubforum
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To: thinden

PS - should have added, that 2 more years of the criminals in charge will likely put many good Americans over the edge into actions that will not be desirable if you get my drift.


61 posted on 10/31/2022 5:23:21 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Never worry about anything. Worry never solved any problem or moved any stone.)
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To: little jeremiah

Yeah. I gotcha


62 posted on 10/31/2022 6:04:55 PM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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To: GreyFriar

Loving America and the American people.


63 posted on 10/31/2022 7:03:50 PM PDT by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: RandFan
People have been talking about splintering support and dampening enthusiasm among Republican voters for him.

"People"

64 posted on 10/31/2022 7:07:34 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Rocco DiPippo

I hear ya, but right now I’ ve got my head buried up social ‘truth’ media.
Can’t see straight for some reason, ?


65 posted on 10/31/2022 7:16:56 PM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: RandFan

The Shrill is on a DNC/NWO/globalist/RINO roll, today!


66 posted on 10/31/2022 7:18:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: little jeremiah

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


67 posted on 10/31/2022 8:12:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Williams
You're correct. And while leftist filth and their filthbag enforcers continue destroying the lives of all who oppose them, decent people allow them to do it without consequences. That is the only reason they get away with it and indeed continue "upping the ante" as they taunt us, gaslight us and spit in our faces and they will do so, unimpeded, even after Trump is indicted and arrested.

Now it's time to interrupt this comment with a commercial break for some extremely pertinent Solzhenitsyn: "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward."

So yeah, as Americans continue "paling with terror" the feces-flecked leftist juggernaut will roll on and on and on until it halts at the execution pits.

68 posted on 11/01/2022 1:50:19 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo (I)
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To: A strike
Why do Americans seem to be so slow on the uptake about the criminal prosecution/persecution of political enemies by the Democrats ?

Because the telescreen constantly tells them how bad Trump is, and how throwing him into the DC dungeon is the only way to save the country from becoming another Nazi Germany.

69 posted on 11/01/2022 1:59:05 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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To: Fresh Wind

b,B,But the telescreen is TRUTH


70 posted on 11/01/2022 3:13:26 AM PDT by A strike (LGBFJRoberts)
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To: A strike

Of course. It’s the Ministry of Truth that controls it.


71 posted on 11/01/2022 5:15:12 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Fox News is CNN-Lite.)
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