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Now my favorite president, Donald Trump, faces a 37 count indictment from the FBII join my brothers and sisters in MAGA, and all sane Republicans, in saying this: I’m not sure I want to live in a country where a former president can wave secret documents that he is not supposed to have and say, “This is classified information. Look at this, ‘and then be held accountable for his actions.
I mean, what kind of country have we become? One in which federal prosecutors can gather “evidence” before a “grand jury”, and that grand jury can “vote to indict a former president” for 37 alleged “crimes”? Look at all the other people out there in America, including Democrats like Hillary Clinton and President Joe Biden, who have NOT been charged with crimes on the flimsy excuse that there is no “evidence” that they committed crimes. THAT IS COMPLETELY UNFAIR!
It’s like Virginia Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin wrote in a tweet Friday“These charges are unprecedented and it is a sad day for our country, especially in light of what clearly appears to be a two-tiered justice system where some are selectively prosecuted and others are not.”
What kind of country holds a president accountable for alleged crimes a grand jury accuses him of?
Or if Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn tweeted: “Where are the investigations against the Clintons and the Bidens? What about honesty? Two levels of justice at work.
GOP sticks with Trump: Trump sued again and STILL Republicans are pouring in to support him. Sad!
TWO BOOTS! One level where President Trump keeps getting sued through both state and federal court systems and another where the people I don’t like don’t get sued by all the things Fox News tells me they’ve done wrong.
It’s like America has become a banana republic as long as you do what I did and refuse to look up the definition of “banana republic.”
A photo shows a copy of the indictment filed by the US Justice Department against former President Donald Trump and Trump aide Waltine Nauta. Former President Trump was charged with multiple counts in a 49-page indictment.
Regardless of the charges against Trump, it is clear that this is all Biden’s fault
And of course you know who is behind this caricature of justice, right? It is the so-called President Biden, who is both weak and senile and also a laser-sharp master of witch hunts.
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Former President Donald Trump greets supporters at a Team Trump volunteer leadership training session held at the Grimes Community Complex on June 1 in Grimes, Iowa.
Of course, they will tell you that the indictment came about through a special counsel investigation, and that the federal special counsel statute shields such investigations from political influence. But that’s complete nonsense unless we’re talking about Special Counsel John Durham, who was appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr when Trump was president and charged with investigating the SHAME LEFT CRIMES committed in the Trump-Russia investigation. Durham was impeccable, and the fact the New York Times reported he “did not accuse a senior FBI or intelligence official of a crime and acknowledged in a footnote that Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign also did nothing prosecutable” is something I will ignore.
This is a WITCH HUNT, and I believe it because Trump said so!
Current Special Counsel Jack Smith, on the other hand – he is bad news. I know this because Trump has repeatedly said the Smith investigation is a witch hunt, and I’ve never seen Trump lie about anything.
Keep in mind, in 2016, Trump said: “I will enforce all laws regarding the protection of classified information. No one will be above the law.”
This image, included in the indictment of former President Donald Trump, shows boxes of records stored in a bathroom and shower in the Lake Room at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump faces 37 felony mishandling of classified documents according to an indictment unsealed on Friday, June 9, 2023.
So after he said that, you expect me to believe he wasn’t protecting classified information? Therefore, according to the indictment, there is a recording of him holding a secret document in his office at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and telling two staffers and an interviewer, “Look, as president, I could have released it.” … Now I can’t, you know, but this is still a secret.
Trump Indictment Winners: The former president and Joe Biden. DeSantis? Not so much.
You call that “damn evidence”, I call it “What about Hunter Biden’s laptop?”
put Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Hunter Biden in jail? THAT makes sense now!
Now I can hear all the libs out there whining and saying that if it was Biden or Hillary or Hunter that got indicted I wouldn’t say a word about bipartisan justice or the arming of the Justice Department or anything like that.
Notably unindicted President Joe Biden.
Well those whiners would be right but the difference is I believe Biden and Hillary and Hunter are all guilty and should be locked up for life while I believe with Trump that he is great and innocent and the best president America has ever has known.
The thing is, if Hillary were charged with murder, I’d say, ‘Yeah, she’s definitely a killer. Lock her up.”
But if President Trump were to be charged with murder in some outrageous scenario just because he told a group of people he had committed murder, I would say, “HOW DARE YOU LET THIS MAN INCLUDE MURDER WHEN OTHERS NOT ACCUSED OF MURDER IN THE US! THERE ARE CLEARLY TWO LAWSETS, ONE IN WHICH MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT, WHO SAYS TO KILL SOMEONE, IS CHARGED OF MURDER AND ONE IN WHICH PEOPLE WHO DID NOT MURDER ARE NOT CHARGED OF MURDER!”
And that, my liberal friends, makes perfect sense to me and my MAGA companions. So watch out. The Trump Train is coming.
USA TODAY Opinion columnist Rex Huppke.
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