Now that my favourite president, Donald Trump, is going through a 37-count indictment from the feds, I be part of with my brothers and sisters in MAGA, and with all wise Republicans, in saying this: I’m unsure I wish to dwell in a rustic the place a former president can wave round categorised paperwork he isn’t purported to have and say, “That is secret info. Have a look at this,” after which be held accountable for his actions.
I imply, what sort of nation have we change into? One during which federal prosecutors can take “proof” earlier than a “grand jury,” and that grand jury can “vote to indict” a former president for 37 alleged “crimes”? Have a look at all the opposite folks on the market in America, together with Democrats like Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, who HAVEN’T been indicted for crimes on the flimsy excuse that there is no such thing as a “proof” they did crimes. THAT’S TOTALLY UNFAIR!
It’s like Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin wrote in a tweet Friday: “These expenses are unprecedented and it’s a tragic day for our nation, particularly in gentle of what clearly seems to be a two-tiered justice system the place some are selectively prosecuted, and others will not be.”
What sort of nation holds a president accountable for alleged crimes a grand jury expenses him with?
Or as Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn tweeted: “The place are the investigations in opposition to the Clintons and the Bidens? What about equity? Two tiers of justice at work.”
GOP sticking with Trump: Trump indicted once more, and STILL Republicans flock to help him. Unhappy!
TWO TIERS! One tier during which President Trump retains getting indicted by way of each state and federal justice methods and one other during which the folks I don’t like preserve getting not indicted by way of all of the issues Fox Information tells me they did fallacious.
It’s like America has change into a banana republic, so long as you do as I’ve achieved and refuse to lookup the definition of “banana republic.”
A photograph exhibits a duplicate of the indictment of former President Donald Trump and Trump aide Waltine Nauta, introduced by the US Justice Division. Former President Trump was charged with a number of counts in a 49 web page indictment.
Whatever the Trump indictment, it is clear that is all Biden’s fault
And naturally, you understand who’s behind this travesty of justice, proper? It’s so-called President Biden, who’s each frail and senile and likewise a laser-sharp grasp at conducting witch hunts.
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Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a Group Trump volunteer management coaching occasion held on the Grimes Group Advanced on June 01 in Grimes, Iowa.
Certain, they’ll inform you the indictment got here by way of a particular counsel investigation, and that the federal particular counsel statute retains such investigations walled off from political affect. However that’s full nonsense, until we’re speaking about particular counsel John Durham, who was appointed by Legal professional Common Invoice Barr whereas Trump was president and tasked with investigating the NEFARIOUS LEFT-WING CRIMES dedicated within the Trump-Russia probe. Durham was above reproach, and the truth that the New York Occasions reported he “charged no high-level F.B.I. or intelligence official with a criminal offense and acknowledged in a footnote that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign did nothing prosecutable, both” is one thing I’ll ignore.
This can be a WITCH HUNT, and I consider that as a result of Trump mentioned so!
Present particular counsel Jack Smith, however — he’s unhealthy information. I do know this as a result of Trump has mentioned repeatedly that Smith’s investigation is a witch hunt, and I’ve by no means recognized Trump to lie about something.
Take into account, in 2016, Trump mentioned: “I’m going to implement all legal guidelines regarding the safety of categorised info. Nobody can be above the legislation.”
This picture, contained within the indictment in opposition to former President Donald Trump, exhibits containers of data saved in a rest room and bathe within the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Seaside, Fla. Trump is going through 37 felony expenses associated to the mishandling of categorised paperwork in response to an indictment unsealed Friday, June 9, 2023.
So after he mentioned that, you anticipate me to consider he didn’t defend categorised info? Simply because, in response to the indictment, there’s a recording of him holding a categorised doc in his workplace at his membership in Bedminster, New Jersey, and saying to 2 employees members and an interviewer: “See, as president I might have declassified it. … Now I can’t, you understand, however that is nonetheless a secret.”
Winners of Trump indictment: The previous president and Joe Biden. DeSantis? Not a lot.
You name that “damning proof,” I name it, “What about Hunter Biden’s laptop computer?”
Placing Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden in jail? Now THAT is sensible!
Now I can already hear all of the libs on the market whining and saying that if it was Biden or Hillary or Hunter getting indicted, I wouldn’t be saying a phrase about two-tiers of justice or the weaponization of the division of justice or something like that.
The notably non-indicted President Joe Biden.
Nicely, these whiners could be proper, however the distinction is I consider Biden and Hillary and Hunter are all responsible and must be locked up for all times, whereas with Trump, I consider he’s nice and harmless and one of the best president America has ever recognized.
It’s like this: If Hillary bought indicted for homicide, I might say, “Sure, she is totally a assassin. Lock her up.”
But when in some outrageous state of affairs President Trump was indicted for homicide simply because he informed a bunch of folks that he did a homicide, I might say: “HOW DARE YOU CHARGE THIS MAN WITH MURDER WHEN OTHERS IN THE U.S. HAVE NOT BEEN CHARGED WITH MURDER! THERE ARE CLEARLY TWO TIERS OF JUSTICE, ONE IN WHICH MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT, WHO SAID HE MURDERED SOMEONE, IS CHARGED WITH MURDER AND ONE IN WHICH PEOPLE WHO HAVEN’T MURDERED ARE NOT CHARGED WITH MURDER!”
And that, my liberal associates, makes excellent sense to me and my MAGA companions. So be careful. The Trump Prepare’s a comin’.
USA TODAY Opinion columnist Rex Huppke.
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