Column: A normal political party would have thrown a loser like Donald Trump under the bus by now. The Republicans are choosing to chuck the rule of law instead.
A normal political party would have thrown a loser like Donald Trump under the bus by now. The Republicans are choosing to chuck the rule of law instead.
After Trump trumpeted — in all caps on social media on Saturday — that he was going to be arrested Tuesday, House Republicans immediately began flexing their power to interfere on his behalf. Ignoring the fact that any charge against him would be a grand jury’s doing, Republicans, echoing the former president, attacked the Manhattan district attorney overseeing the case, Alvin L. Bragg, a Black Democrat, as a far-left rogue prosecutor.
Right. Recall a boast last summer of McCarthy’s ally, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, the Judiciary Committee chair who spearheaded the letter to Bragg: Back then, anticipating the probes he’d open against Biden once Republicans won a House majority, JordanThat will help frame up the 2024 race, when I hope and I think President Trump is going to run again. And we need to make sure that he wins.”Marjorie Taylor Greene leverages power with her ‘own the libs’ antics.
In his Saturday morning post predicting his arrest, Trump urged his followers to “PROTEST, TAKE OUR NATION BACK!” How could Republicans not immediately flash back to Trump’s exhortations ahead of Jan. 6, 2021? But instead of ignoring him — or, better yet, admonishing him — McCarthy endorsed Trump’s fury.
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