John Gotti is a Catholic and a good family man. He's not a politician, but a successful businessman who understands how to get things done. Sure, he's not perfect, but he's all about traditional values, and he hates the sanctimonious Libs as much as I do. I love that guy, and he loves people like me.
Has he done some shady things on the side? Who hasn't? Why is the FBI picking on him? The FBI has hated him from the beginning, and they've rigged the whole system against him. They hate him because we love him. And so what if took the fifth yesterday over 400 times. Why should he cooperate with a corrupt system that is persecuting him for no good reason?
Is the spirit of Marco Rubio's comment about the events in Mar-a-Lago on Monday so far from this?–
“The F.B.I.’s actions, less than three months from the upcoming elections, are doing more to erode public trust in our government institutions, the electoral process and the rule of law in the U.S. than the Russian Federation or any other foreign adversary,” Mr. Rubio said in the letter [to the FBI]. (Source)
No, Marco, it's you and other Trump wannabes who are eroding trust in our in our institutions by refusing to allow a perfectly legal process to play out. You know it, and you don't care what real harm you are doing.
Why do people like Rubio defend this guy? Why say anything at all? We all know that Rubio will have to eat his words sooner or later, so why does he feel the need to say something so baseless and untrue? Is it simply something so feckless as seeing in Trump a charisma that they lack and feel that their future success depends on mimicking it? Are these guys really so craven and stupid?
I've said it before–if you want to understand GOP intentions, just listen to what they falsely accuse Democrats of doing. It's an infallible guide to predict what they would do if they were in a position to do it. That's why they must be kept out of power.
As Peter Baker points out in the same article excerpted above–
Mr. Biden has not publicly demanded that the Justice Department lock up Mr. Trump the way Mr. Trump publicly demanded that the Justice Department lock up Mr. Biden and other Democrats. Nor has anyone knowledgeably contradicted the White House statement that it was not even informed about the search at Mar-a-Lago beforehand, much less involved in ordering it. But Mr. Trump has a long history of accusing adversaries of doing what he himself does or would do in the same situation.
His efforts to politicize the law enforcement system have now become his shield to try to deflect accusations of wrongdoing. Just as he asserted on Monday that the F.B.I. search was political persecution, he made the same claim on Wednesday about the New York attorney general’s unrelated investigation of his business practices as he invoked his Fifth Amendment right to avoid testifying because his answers could incriminate him.
“Now to flip the script and falsely claim that he’s the victim of the exact same tactics that he once deployed is just the rankest hypocrisy,” said Norman L. Eisen, who served as special counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during the first Trump impeachment. “But consistency, logic, evidence, truth — those are always the first to go by the board when a democracy comes under assault from within.”
We know that Trump has no moral compass and will say and do whatever will advance his interests no matter who else gets hurt, but we're learning from Republicans that they admire his success and seek to imitate him in almost every respect. While I feel evermore confident we will never see Trump in office again, we won't be rid of the people whose souls he has corrupted for a long time coming.
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