Home Republicans are reportedly plotting to weaponize their slim majority by interfering within the Fulton County probe into their presidential front-runner and defendant former president Donald J. Trump with an “investigation” that can probably be launched the identical day as he surrenders to be arrested.
On Thursday, the very day Trump is to give up for arrest in Fulton County, Georgia, the GOP-led Home Judiciary Committee is “anticipated to open a congressional investigation into Fulton County District Lawyer Fani Willis as quickly as Thursday,” a supply advised CNN.
With none proof upon which to base this investigation and unclear purview over state investigations, the Republican-led committee is plotting to smell round for any suggestive hints they will promote to their conspiracy-laden base which may clarify, excuse and justify one more Trump indictment as a persecution plot by Democrats. They plan to do that by investigating — despite the fact that Willis has already advised them this didn’t occur — whether or not Willis coordinated with particular counsel Jack Smith and whether or not any federal funds had been used within the state stage probe of Trump.
Investigating DAs who’re prosecuting Donald Trump is what the Home does underneath Republicans. CNN identified that this investigation “mirrors the identical line of inquiry that Republicans used to probe Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg, who indicted Trump in New York for falsifying enterprise data to cowl up an alleged hush cash scheme.”
What CNN didn’t level out is that it’s a crime for Congress to meddle in ongoing prison instances and investigations.
Home Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan was advised when tried to intervene in Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s case towards Trump that it’s a crime for the Home Republicans to make use of the Judiciary Committee to intervene in an ongoing prison investigation or trial.
Rep. Jordan has additionally tried to meddle in Jack Smith’s federal instances towards Trump.
In each situations, Jordan was primarily advised to go pound sand by regulation enforcement.
Republicans falsely decry the weaponization of the federal government as a method to cowl Donald Trump’s many alleged crimes. Weaponizing the federal government means to make use of the federal government’s sources and energy for partisan functions, and that’s precisely what Home Republicans are doing.
The distinction between the 4 indictments of Donald J Trump and all the Home-led probes into these investigations is that there was a mountain of proof in plain sight that all of us watched occur as Trump and his group tried to steal an election. The proof couldn’t be denied. It needed to finally be pursued in an effort to defend the rights of People to have their votes counted.
Moreover, on this occasion, the Home Judiciary Committee is tasked with overseeing the administration of justice throughout the federal courts, federal administrative businesses, and federal regulation enforcement entities. The Fulton County case isn’t in federal court docket. Most of the defendants have, nevertheless, tried to get it moved to federal court docket.
These Home Republicans are usually not working for the betterment of the Folks of this nation; they’re working as political marketing campaign brokers for Trump’s re-election in 2024. On this method, nevertheless, they’re additionally weaponizing the ability of the federal government to harass and intimidate prosecutors who’re engaged on behalf of the Folks.
The truth is Donald J. Trump and his group and a number of other of those Home Republicans tried to steal votes from a majority of the American folks, together with a violent tried riot. There isn’t any protection for this, and it’s reprehensible that Home Republicans are being paid by the American folks to harass regulation enforcement who’re standing up for the American folks.
