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credit: J. Ohman, Sacremento Bee
BC Idonwanna sez: It's where he fits in!
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US Person still wants to know what is keeping the US Justice Department from indicting the most dangerous man to democracy in America. Perhaps Attorney General Garland is waiting until Herr Trumpillini refuses to cooperate with the January 6th Committee. A request for his testimony is probably forthcoming shortly, but it will not be in the form of a subpoena, but a voluntary request. Congressional investigators don't want to give the litigious crime boss another issue to litigate. The former guy knows no bounds of propriety--he reminds
US of former Senator Joe McCarthy. He told reporters on Wednesday that his Attorney General did not want to take responsibility for the coup. He complained, "Look, we also had a chance, but Bill Barr, the attorney general, didn't want to be impeached....I said, 'Look, get impeached. I went up at lot in the polls when I got impeached. You have to get impeached, maybe.' But he was so afraid of getting impeached he refused to do his job," Why this one-man wrecking crew gets a free pass from Swamp politicos is a mystery not beyond
US Person. Perhaps it is that no one in office there is willing to serve their country above and beyond their own personal interests?
Committee members who do not support a referral say it would have no legal standing with the Department of Justice. Maybe not, but such a referral would make it clear to the public that Donald Trump is a criminal grifter and a danger to the Republic. It would also place tremendous pressure on a highly reluctant Attorney General to move forward with a criminal indictment.The crimes involved--conspiracy to defraud the United States and attempting to obstruct an official proceeding--are inherently political, so any criticism of a referral on that ground is superfluous. Foregoing a referral on political grounds will not stop his
anti-democratic supporters in Congress (e.g. Mo Brooks, Andy Biggs and Paul Gosar) from crying foul even if the DOJ brings an indictment on its own. Right now, that development looks unlikely. Once again, the Democrats choke when it counts the most. If Trump gets away with shooting democracy on Capital Hill, then democracy is dead in this country. The date of death: January 6, 202; sorry Superman, so much for "truth, justice and the American way".
