Lessons of History and Trying To Avoid the Same Mistakes

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The former president’s behavior may have invited charges, but the Republicans’ spineless support for the past two years convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality, giving him the assurance that he could purloin some of the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets upon leaving the White House — and preposterously insist that they were his to do with as he wished — all without facing political consequences. Indeed, their fawning support since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has given Mr. Trump every reason to believe that he can ride these charges and any others not just to the Republican nomination, but also to the White House in 2024.

In a word, the Republicans are as responsible as Mr. Trump for this month’s indictment — and will be as responsible for any indictment and prosecution of him for Jan. 6.

Opinion | It’s Not Too Late for the Republican Party (Published 2023)

The G.O.P. needs to have the reckoning with Trump that it vainly hoped would never be necessary.

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The former president’s behavior may have invited charges, but the Republicans’ spineless support for the past two years convinced Mr. Trump of his political immortality, giving him the assurance that he could purloin some of the nation’s most sensitive national security secrets upon leaving the White House — and preposterously insist that they were his to do with as he wished — all without facing political consequences. Indeed, their fawning support since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has given Mr. Trump every reason to believe that he can ride these charges and any others not just to the Republican nomination, but also to the White House in 2024.

In a word, the Republicans are as responsible as Mr. Trump for this month’s indictment — and will be as responsible for any indictment and prosecution of him for Jan. 6.

Opinion | It’s Not Too Late for the Republican Party (Published 2023)

The G.O.P. needs to have the reckoning with Trump that it vainly hoped would never be necessary.

www.nytimes.com

 

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A former federal judge once lauded by the right for his conservative legal opinions delivered a scathing rebuke of the Republican Party for its continued fealty to Donald Trump.

J. Michael Luttig wrote in a New York Times op-edthat the GOP’s “spineless support” has enabled the former president, despite his role in the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and his Espionage Act indictment in the classified documents scandal.

“Indeed, their fawning support since the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol has given Mr. Trump every reason to believe that he can ride these charges and any others not just to the Republican nomination, but also to the White House in 2024,” Luttig wrote.

He called Trump’s arguments that he has the right to hold onto any documents he wants “preposterous,” and called out the party for being ready to hand him the presidential nomination again.

“Building the Republican campaign around the newly indicted front-runner is a colossal political miscalculation, as comedic as it is tragic for the country,” Luttig wrote, adding that the campaign is essentially one running against the U.S. Constitution.

“If the indictment of Mr. Trump on Espionage Act charges — not to mention his now almost certain indictment for conspiring to obstruct Congress from certifying Mr. Biden as the president on Jan. 6 — fails to shake the Republican Party from its moribund political senses, then it is beyond saving itself,” Luttig declared. “Nor ought it be saved.”

Trump’s campaign is doomed to fail, given the large number of Americans who would never vote for him “if for no other perfectly legitimate reason than that he has corrupted America’s democracy and is now attempting to corrupt the country’s rule of law,” he argued.

Luttig, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George H. W. Bush in 1991, “operated behind the scenes at the top of the conservative legal world,” Politico wrote last year.

He advised then-Vice President Mike Pence not to cave to Trump’s pressure to overturn the results of the 2020 election ― advice Pence ultimately heeded.

Read Luttig’s full column in the Times here.

Conservative Legal Icon Rips 'Spineless' Republicans For 'Colossal' Trump Mistake

J. Michael Luttig, a retired federal judge, said the GOP may be "beyond saving itself."

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Black veterans are denied VA health benefits more often than whites, data shows

The VA has launched a new initiative to determine why benefits are doled out at different rates and try to level the playing field for Blacks, women and LGBTQ+ veterans.

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Does the OP even realize that 99.9999% of the "replies" to this thread are the OP talking to himself? Does he need an intervention?

 

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I just wish the end result would be the same. Treat communist POS liberals the same way Hitler treated the Jews.

Communism and liberalism are mutually exclusive.

Thanks for advertising you have no idea what you are talking about.

Just another ignorant parroting of provided talking points.

 

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MAGA Republicans are attempting to have Donald Trump’s impeachment expunged. While Trump’s impeachments are on the record without the inability to remove, it is clear the former president’s sycophants are attempting to placate the man with the brain and intellect of a spoiled toddler. Rep. Lauren Boebert attempted to force Biden’s impeachment. The House voted to refer articles of impeachment of the President to the Homeland Security and Judiciary committees, punting on an impeachment vote that may have been politically difficult for some Republicans.

MSNBC Journalist Garrett Haake confronted Speaker McCarthy about his appetite for impeaching the President. McCarthy responded with a lie. He claimed that Special Counsel John Durham said Trump should not have been impeached. None of Trump’s articles of impeachment fell under Durham’s purview. Garrett Haake called McCarthy out for the blatant lie.

It was refreshing watching a journalist call out a lying politician in real-time. Too often, they just let the politicians lie and sometimes correct the record in the commentary. Haake did his job by challenging the Speaker and then further calling him out in the commentary.

Check out the entire video clip in this post. This is what one should expectin reporting.


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Reporter exposed Speaker McCarthy for lying about Special Counsel statement on Trump impeachment.

MSNBC Reporter Garrett Haake did not allow Speaker McCarthy to get away with the lying statement that Special Counsel John Durham and others said Trump should not have been impeached. Speaker McCarthy, exposed by Journalist Haake. Watch Politics Done...

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Samuel Alito’s Wife Leased Land to an Oil and Gas Firm While the Justice Fought the EPA

A deal made by Samuel Alito’s wife with an energy company paints recent Supreme Court decisions on the environment in a damning light.

theintercept.com

 

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The Supreme Court rejected a radical argument put forth by North Carolina Republicans that sought to give nearly unfettered power over federal elections to state legislatures, with Chief Justice John Roberts and fellow conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett joining the court's three liberals to rule on Tuesday that the claims had no merit.

Had the court accepted the GOP's claims, it would have upended the foundations of over two centuries of constitutional law. Such an outcome would have enabled new gerrymanders in several states and a torrent of Republican-backed voter suppression in many more ahead of the 2024 elections. In a worst-case scenario, it could have even allowed Republicans to rig the Electoral College heading into next year.

Supreme Court rejects radical GOP theory that would shred curbs on gerrymandering

The Supreme Court rejected a radical argument put forth by North Carolina Republicans that sought to give nearly unfettered power over federal elections to state legislatures, with Chief Justice ...

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Supreme Court unfreezes Louisiana redistricting case that could boost Black voting power before 2024

The Supreme Court lifted its hold on a Louisiana case that could force the state to redraw congressional districts to boost Black voting power.

apnews.com

 

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'We're electing idiots': Liz Cheney on whether she would launch independent presidential bid

"The country right now faces hugely challenging and fundamentally important issues," former Rep. Liz Cheney said.

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