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Home Republicans are satisfied that the FBI and the Justice Division and principally any regulation enforcement company that has not discovered President Joe Biden responsible of being a world legal mastermind is corrupt – CORRUPT, I TELL YOU! — and in cahoots with Democrats.
However the steaming conspiracy bubbles that bubble up from the right-wing fever swamps are sometimes pierced by details, and a somewhat thunderous came about Wednesday throughout a Home Judiciary Committee listening to with FBI Director Christopher Wray.
The final tenor of questioning of Republican lawmakers on the listening to was: “YOU ALL FOMENTED JAN. 6 ATTACK ON THE US CAPITOL, DIDNYA? AND YOU ALL HATE DONALD TRUMP, DONTCHA?? AND YOU ALL LOVE JOE BIDEN TOO, RIGHT?!?”
“Do you shield the Bidens?” and different actually silly questions
GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz railed at Wray and the FBI for not discovering higher criminality within the actions of the president’s son, Hunter Biden, and for not connecting Joe Biden to the hysterical, evidence-free allegations that the Republicans have fabricated.
‘You do not appear interested by it in any respect, do you? Virtually suspiciously ignorant?” Gaetz requested, sounding like a cartoon villain, solely dumber. “Are you defending the Bidens?”
FBI Director Christopher Wray Listens to Committee Chair Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) throughout a Home Judiciary Committee on Federal Bureau of Investigation oversight on Capitol Hill on July 12, 2023 in Washington, D.C.
It was all only a big load of bullshit, which is smart, because the Home Republicans’ present motto is, “A large load of crap.”
Okay, who let a Republican ask a wise and pertinent query? THIS IS NOT HOW IT WORKS!!
However then, in lower than a minute, one line of questions made all of the GOP hooey concerning the FBI have it on Republicans and be within the sack for Biden poof.
Republican Consultant Ken Buck – sure, a Republican – Wray started asking about his profession.
Buck mentioned, “You may have been nominated by Republican President (George. W.) Bush for the place of Assistant Legal professional Normal within the Prison Division of the Justice Division and you’ve got been confirmed by a Republican Senate?”
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replied Wray: “Sure, unanimously.”
Buck continued, “And also you have been subsequently nominated by Republican President Donald Trump to be Director of the FBI and reconfirmed by a Republican Senate for that place?”
“Sure,” Wray mentioned. “I believe there have been solely 5 votes towards me and so they have been all from Democrats.”
Buck concluded, “Based on Wikipedia, you’re nonetheless a registered Republican, and I hope you do not change sides after this listening to.”
So the Republicans who need it defund and discredit the FBIthose that eagerly dragged the FBI director by way of the mud on Wednesday with absurd accusations based mostly on zero details need you, the American individuals, to consider this: the nation’s prime regulation enforcement company has been weaponized towards Republicans led by a director who’s a lifelong Republican and who reached his present place by being chosen and confirmed in positions by two Republican presidents and two Republican-led senate our bodies.
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Neglect that that is all in protection of former President Donald Trump, a one-term imposter, twice impeached, now dealing with life costs of greater than 70 felonies in two separate instances, with extra costs to return.
Neglect that Hunter Biden was truly charged with two misdemeanor tax offenses and a misdemeanor firearms felony.
Only a fast heads up: AI powered robots will kill us. Okay bye.
Neglect that, regardless of relentless scrutiny, Republicans have yielded nothing that hyperlinks President Biden to his son’s exercise, or the truth that the individual they reported was like a serious whistleblower simply charged with arms trafficking and performing as an unregistered agent for China.
Earlier than you even get into the main points of the conspiracies, it’s important to consider that the FBI director on the heart of all of it is corrupt. And he was appointed first by President Bush after which once more by President Trump! This conspiracy is now an unusually massive footprint shy of Bigfoot.
Poof!
USA TODAY Opinion columnist Rex Huppke.
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