The Spitting and Sputtering House Republican Rage
Their phony indignation over looming Trump indictments
Once again Donald Trump has managed to put his party in a bind, but is his luck running out? The Republican heads of three committees in the House want to investigate the Manhattan Attorney General because he might indict the former President, even though they have no jurisdiction over a state official.
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy did his usual cover my ass balancing act by proclaiming the indictments, which have not yet taken place, are a political witch-hunt, while saying in the same breath that people shouldn’t protest.
I guess he remembers a little bit about Trump rioters being convicted by the hundreds for trying to overthrow the US government. With many more indictments on the way.
The GOP has a big problem with how to respond to the first of many potential indictments of the guy who lost the last election and who, by any standard, appears to have lost his marbles.
And these charges, if they come, are for a classic tawdry case involving a cast of characters straight out of a bad tabloid headline. If the other expected indictments come, which are far more serious, lukewarm Republican Trump supporters are going to find their outrage looking even more contrived.
