It has been well over a year since I have written a “political” blog. I have written about baseball, football, prejudices, turning 70 & my kidney transplant. In fact, it was October 2020 when I wrote my “last words on DJT.”
But…I can’t hold out any longer…so (with a wink to Keith Olberman)…here goes!
This week, The Department of Justice got a search warrant to search Mar-A-Lago, the “home” of tRump for missing Presidential documents including classified documents. It has now come out that there is a mole in the tRump universe who tipped off the investigators that there were significant documents stored in tRump’s personal home, including in his safe, after he purportedly turned over all of those documents as a result of prior requests. The FBI executed an unannounced, legal search and Republican world went bananas.
“I’ve seen enough,” Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House minority leader, wrote in a statement that he posted online. “The Department of Justice has reached an intolerable state of weaponized politicization.”
Ric Grenell, who served as Mr. Trump’s acting director of national intelligence, said that if the former president were to be re-elected, he must “clean out the FBI and DOJ.”
“If they can do it to a former President, imagine what they can do to you,” the Twitter account for the House Republican caucus wrote.
"At a minimum, Garland must resign or be impeached," Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., wrote. "The search warrant must be published. Christoper Wray [sic] must be removed. And the FBI reformed top to bottom."
“This is what happens in Third World countries. Not the United States,” said the House Judiciary GOP. A Fox News commentator repeatedly called the search “third-world [expletive]” in a viral clip. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) likened it to what happens in a banana republic.
Marco Rubio warned we were on track to become like Nicaragua and added, “Using government power to persecute political opponents is something we have seen many times from 3rd world Marxist dictatorships. But never before in America.”
Trump, overwhelmed with apparent self-pity, rambled in his 340 word statement, whining about the United States becoming a “third-world” country, pretending his other scandals weren’t real, complaining about Hillary Clinton, and marveling at the fact that FBI agents, looking for documents, even “broke into” his safe.
But, do you know what NONE of them, including tRump, said? No one said he was innocent or not guilty.
No one tried to explain why the former guy had those documents in his possession. It was tRump himself who signed into law 18 USC Code 207 so he could go after Hillary Clinton:
Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away any record, proceeding, map, book, paper, document, or other thing, filed or deposited with any clerk or officer of any court of the United States, or in any public office, or with any judicial or public officer of the United States, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.
Whoever, having the custody of any such record, proceeding, map, book, document, paper, or other thing, willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, falsifies, or destroys the same, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years, or both; and shall forfeit his office and be disqualified from holding any office under the United States. As used in this subsection, the term “office” does not include the office held by any person as a retired officer of the Armed Forces of the United States.
So, to all of those supporters that are calling for war, demonstrating ad nauseum, and are indignant over the search warrant, I ask:
Does the law not apply to EVERYONE? Is their lord and savior, Donald Trump, ABOVE the law. “Republicans are the party of law and order” makes me laugh out loud. Why did he not turn over those 12 or 15 boxes of documents that belong in the National Archives when he was asked to do so? It is rumored that the missing documents concerned nuclear weapons! Was he going to monetize them for his own benefit? Was he going to give them to our enemies? What, possibly, could be the excuse for not turning them over after it was found out that he didn’t follow the law to begin with? The last traitors that stole top secret nuclear documents were executed in this country.
And, now, tRump is spreading the conspiracy theory that the FBI has planted evidence. This seems to imply that tRump knows that he should not have those documents and is trying to shift the blame to the FBI.
And as long as I am writing about limitless hypocrisy, the former guy’s past quotes included:
“You see the mob takes the Fifth,” he said. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
Another time, he said, “Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Fifth Amendment. Horrible.”
Yesterday, in a civil trial deposition he took the 5th Amendment over 440 times!
I can understand when people support the Republican Party conservatism…even when I don’t agree with any of their positions. What I don’t understand is how anybody can support this racist, misogynistic, Hitler loving, liar, cheat, crook, piece of garbage.
And The Journey continues…..
