Commentary
The Jan. 6 Show Trial
From the beginning, I decided I would not lower my standards by watching hearings that did not allow dissent from the minority party. I found the comments in blogger Matt Taibbi’s account of the last hearing compelling.
At 9:06 p.m. he noted, “All of this stuff is incredibly politically damaging, but legally? I really want to hear from anyone, even these witnesses, on what laws any of this might have been broken. How can they keep sidestepping this critical issue?”
Earlier, he cited RINO Liz Cheney’s charge of “Trump’s failure to act,” recalling that the committee had been “arguing this inaction constitutes a crime,” but which one. I don’t think “multiple hours” of not doing anything are going to be enough.
“I’m saying what’s the crime, exactly, and what’s the legal argument?” Taibbi wrote. “If they actually plan on trying to prosecute him (and if they don’t that’s nihilism on a level maybe even beyond Trump’s) it’s critical that Trump be charged of something that is already on the books and provable, not some ex post facto contrivance where they’re essentially arguing unfitness and unsuitability and trying to shoehorn it into something like sedition.
“The problem is that if they can’t argue he committed an actual crime, this will be seen by half the population (and more importantly by posterity) as what it looks like, a political prosecution. They can’t prosecute just because he was wildly irresponsible.”
A SIDE NOTE: George Washington University law professor Jonathon Turley, a Democrat, was critical of Cheney’s summation, during which she declared having “confessions” from Trump family members and associations, who have already come forward. In doing so, he believes she played into the criticism of these hearings.”
No Equality Under the Law
While playing golf on Friday, my cart mate said he just noticed on his cell phone that Steve Bannon had been convicted of Contempt-of-Congress, and asked if I was surprised knowing of my conservative leaning. I wasn’t, recognizing that the law doesn’t apply equally for Republicans.
I clearly remember when a federal judge declined to hold former President Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder in Contempt of Congress for refusing toturn over to the Republican majority documents about the failed gun-running operation “Fast and Furious.”
The majority has exposed this contempt citation for what it really is: an extraordinary shameful political witch hunt aimed at trashing an honorable man.” – Rep. Gerald Connolly (D-VA)
Then there were the events that led House Republicans to hold IRS official Lois Lerner in Contempt of Congress for her role in targeting conservative political groups seeking tax waivers.
In her case, a U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia informed the House that he would not bring charges citing that “the Constitution prevents the witness from being prosecuted for contempt.”
Both the Holder and Lerner charges took place in 2014, the year I launched kramerontheright.
The opinionated Bannon, who has been a thorn in the side of the left because of his association with former President Trump, had claimed executive privilege, but that was denied since he wasn’t a White House employee when the January 6 Capitol riots took place.
If he was no longer in the White House on January 6, one can easily assume he is a victim of a witch hunt in the left’s show trial, brought by those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Black Disappointment
It isn’t any wonder why CNN’s black commentator Van Jones noted on air that there is a “special heartbreak” in the black community because “the pain is more intense” there.
The rising gas prices, food prices … it has really walloped the black community in a particular way,“ Jones explained. “The hopes were so much higher.”
In Rasmussen’s July 22, 2022 Generic Congressional Ballot, 27 percent of blacks and 41 percent of other minorities would vote Republican if the election were held that day.
Just 106 days until the midterms. May God continue to bless the United States of America.
