Posted on 06/10/2024 10:25:42 AM PDT by RandFan
Some Senate Republicans are expressing concerns over former President Trump’s calls for political vengeance after the 2024 election, warning that retaliatory prosecutions will lead the country down a bad road.
The Senate GOP’s top leaders — Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Whip John Thune (S.D.) — have shown no desire to embrace Trump’s calls to prosecute senior Biden administration officials or his longtime nemesis Hillary Clinton.
And some GOP senators are pushing back against conservative colleagues who want to freeze Justice Department funding or defund special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal prosecutions of Trump.
They don’t want to stumble into a government shutdown by waging war over the Justice Department’s budget or taking other retaliatory steps favored by Trump’s allies.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) says he thought Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s (D) case against Trump was “an unjust prosecution.”
But he’s concerned about Trump’s vow to retaliate with politically motivated prosecutions from his own Justice Department if he’s elected in November.
“This is not the direction we want this country to go,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Folks,
there is a difference between retaliatory prosecution and real criminal prosecutions.
The Hill may as well be Media Matters.
Well put! The non-politician Trump may have been naive about the depth of the SWAMP, but I'm sure he has learned after some bad choices he made in his appointments. The man is not stupid.
Maybe Mitch should be arrested for his illegal money.
Trump: doing the job the GOPe is too cowardly to do.
Since when is justice defined as vengence? Is it only when it appliee to DemonicRats that break the law to take down Trump and MAGA?
He’s repeatedly said his only revenge is winning the election.
I know of no good reason to continue the federally funded employment of Jack Smith.
Far superior DoJ career employees are probably paid at about 1/4th his rate.
Everytime you see the word “vengence” used in this context replace it with “justice”. They are destroying the language, again.
No, it is justice we are seeking.
We're already down a bad road. Trump's just playing catch-up.
“When did Trump do that? First I’ve heard of it......all I’ve heard is libs saying it.”
...Yes, I agree. The only thing I heard him say during the Dr. Phil interview was that passing his agenda to fix the US (aka Making America Great Again!) would be his idea of revenge... No wonder their heads are exploding!
SOMEONE PUT MITCH’S TESTICLES INTO A JAR A LONG TIME AGO.
I DO NOT THINK HE HAS MISSED THEM YET.
HE is checking it twice-——
Prosecution of political criminals in BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES is NOT VENGEANCE ! They are outlaws. Outlaws are thrown in prison or hanged. Doing anything short of that encourages anarchy and more crime.
“Some Senate Republicans are expressing concerns over former President Trump’s calls for political vengeance after the 2024 election, warning that retaliatory prosecutions will lead the country down a bad road.”
Because the slippery banana republic road the leftists have put us on is grand so far.
Lying Theiving Criminal Government applies to individuals in both parties.
It’s to stop them from being able to do what they are doing.. Being nice doesn’t work. J
I thought W took that approach and it didn’t work really.
The cowardly GOPee looking for a place to hide before the fight starts. A bunch of worthless bums.
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