"Why the lies and crimes committed in the Trump Administration have not been prosecuted as treasonous crimes against the United States is a mystery to me."- Letter writer in Sunday Denver Post, p. 3D
Holman Jenkins Jr., WSJ's No. 1 hack and troll, claims in a recent piece (Why the Biden Laptop Matters Now) that he's: "been wondering when our media, at least those with a long-term hope of authority, would begin clawing back from their Russia collusion disgrace." For Jenkins Jr., the "truth" is all in what a two -bit rag like the New York Post puts out, full stop. As he puts it:
"The laptop story, broken by the New York Post, was everything the Russia collusion story wasn’t: meticulous, transparent, on-the-record sourcing; contemporaneous, documentary evidence that doesn’t depend on a source’s after-the-fact recollection or spin.
A paper of record has one job, to let its readers know what’s true and what isn’t."Of Course There’s Evidence Trump Colluded with Russian Intelligence - Lawfare (lawfareblog.com)
Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Tribe, indeed, memorialized the import of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller's findings from Part 1 of his report: www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
And on MSNBC (All In with Chris Hayes) soon after they came out, e.g. in his words:
"What we have here is a situation where the Mueller report shows without any doubt that a hostile foreign power attacked the United States in this (2016) election. That Donald Trump welcomed that attack, benefited from it and then - the last couple of years - tried to cover it up every possible way."
"As tasteless as the Trump-Zelensky
phone call may have been, in Hunter Biden’s activities while his father was
leading U.S. Ukraine policy Mr. Putin would have seen the kind of oligarchic
corruption he could recognize."
WTF?! Oligarchic corruption? What the hell is he even yapping about? Tasteless? You mean like using the wrong fork at a state dinner? Fuck no! The Trump phone call was an impeachable offense as well as treason and ought to have seen the maggot removed from office by the Senate and tossed into SuperMax, e.g.
And let's not forget the July 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting between five Russians including lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya and three top members of the Trump campaign including: Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner and Paul Manafort. What does little Holman think, they were just all together playing tiddly winks?
Besides, Mueller not only defined a conspiracy in the case of his indictment filed against 12 GRU agents in 2018, but made it public, E.g.
[Read the indictment here.]
Further, the 434-page report issued by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz back in December, 2019, concluded the FBI had an “authorized purpose” when it initiated its investigation, known as Crossfire Hurricane, into the Trump campaign. In doing so, Horowitz implicitly rejected GOP assertions that the case was launched out of political animus, or that the FBI broke its own rules on using informants
Any other doubts from normal people (not Holman Jenkins) that Trump and cohorts were in it up their necks with the Russkies can be eliminated by perusing this document:
“Volume 5: Counterintelligence Threats and Vulnerabilities,”
In his most recent display of rank treason Trump outdoes himself by begging Putin- in the midst of an ungodly campaign of slaughter- to get Hunter Biden's "materials." This despite Putin raining atrocities on Ukrainian citizens, sending millions of refugees west into Europe. But Donald John Trump seems willing to overlook all of that in service of his own perceived interests. Else, why did this beast push an unproven claim about Hunter Biden's laptop asking Putin to help him in his dirty work by: "releasing any information he might have", while adding:
"I would think Putin would know the answer to that. I think he should release it. I think we should know that answer."
Like Holman Jenkins Jr.- he is obsessed with Hunter Biden’s laptop and business doings because it provides fuel to his traitor cult and GOP aspirations to regain power in the midterms. Why else beg the most savage autocrat since Stalin to get the goods on Hunter’s laptop for him?
In the meantime. we need Merrick Garland to clean house at Justice, and halt these specious side investigations from Trumpie U.S. attorney holdovers. These simply play into the traitor's (and GOP cult's) hands as well as FOX propaganda narratives. Thereby undercutting the Jan. 6th Select Committee's work and setting the stage for a debacle in the midterms. We need all the resources focused on one thing only: getting all these seditionists behind bars or expelled from office.
As to why this lot of seditionist Trumpian traitors have not yet been prosecuted - the question posed by one Denver Post letter writer (top of post) - that remains a mystery. But as Janice surmises it is likely because the insurrectionists and their overthrow architects (like John Eastman) are mostly white. If this lot were all black or Muslims we are sure they'd have been locked up in SuperMax or Gitmo in a heartbeat.
— from The New Civil Rights Movement
Excerpt:
A reporter at the Dept. of Justice Friday asked Attorney General Merrick Garland the question that’s been on many minds of late: Why hasn’t former Trump White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows been formally charged with criminal contempt of Congress?
On December 14 the full House of Representatives sent DOJ a contempt of Congress referral for Meadows. Since that time even more damning information has been reported by the press.
The Attorney General was not just unwilling to give a direct answer, he was unwilling to even confirm there was a referral sent to DOJ, a commonly-known fact that is also in the official Congressional Record.
In remarks scheduled the day before the one-year anniversary of the Capitol insurrection, Attorney General Merrick Garland swore that his agency would not let power and privilege shield those responsible for the assault on our democracy.
"The Justice Department," he promised, "remains committed to holding all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law." Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyers, he said, would "follow the facts wherever they lead."
It's now been nearly three months since those remarks, and unfortunately, it's starting to look very much like the elite Republicans who were part of a conspiracy to overthrow democracy are, in fact, too swaddled by status and wealth to be held accountable under the law. Every day, the extent of the conspiracy and the number of high-level GOP officials and activists involved with Donald Trump's attempted coup becomes more clear. Yet the DOJ appears to be doing little, if anything, to charge them with crimes. It's gotten to the point where the members of the January 6 committee are publicly begging Garland to do something.
"Attorney General Garland," Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va said Monday evening, "do your job so we can do ours." Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., concurred by noting that "there is no oversight, and without oversight, no accountability."
If Garland's hesitation comes from a belief that prosecuting coup-related crimes is too "political" to be handled by the DOJ, well, then he needs to be a better student of history. It's not just that dealing with people like Trump and his co-conspirators has always been a part of the DOJ's mission, it's that stopping racist and anti-democratic criminal conspiracies like Trump's attempted coup is quite literally what the DOJ was founded to do.
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