The GOP's strategy for protecting Trump? Target the prosecutors

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Attacking the prosecutors is the new GOP go to tactic

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On Saturday morning, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy referred to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg — who would lead a potential Trump indictment in New York — as a “radical DA who lets violent criminals walk.”

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That’s rich coming from McCarthy, whose Bakersfield-area district in California records more violent crime than many major U.S. cities. The issue of crime and corruption in Bakersfield is so bad that it was the subject of a Hulu docuseries produced by Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback turned activist. And as my colleague Hayes Brown explained well Saturday: McCarthy and federal officials barely have any power to influence local prosecutors. The House speaker would do well to read a handbook on his legislative powers. Maybe he missed orientation.

Nonetheless, McCarthy wasn’t alone in the attempted deflection.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise of Louisiana joined McCarthy, falsely claiming that Bragg “refuses to prosecute violent criminals” and whining that the DA is engaged in a “political vendetta” against Trump.,,,,

All of this tells you everything you need to know about the Republican Party’s pro-Trump protection racket. When they don’t like how the game is going, they attack the referees.

[jcgoldie]

1. projection is Trumps oldest trick

No Puppet! No Puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!

[Irish_Dem]

2. Isn't this obstruction?

[republianmushroom]

3. Nailed it

an outrageous abuse of power by a radical republican speaker of the house.
Who is directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used
to preserve state our laws.
The cost of the speaker ship, still having to suck up to trump.

[gratuitous]

4. When your position is indefensible

Question all terms, deny all facts, challenge all precedents, and assail all institutions. Then whine and moan about how persecuted you are.

[Grasswire2]

5. I see huge coordinated effort this morning to say that Bragg concealed..

...600 pages of exculpatory information.

Multiple twitter entities claiming this, loudly, perisistently.

The bat signal to flood the zone with shIt was locked and ready to roll this morning.

[malaise]

6. From the party of lawlessness and

disorder.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. +100!