Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is proposing two amendments to an appropriations bill that would defund the various prosecutions of former President Trump.
He is adding to the defense of the former president mounted by Trump allies in the House as they circle the wagons in the face of four indictments.
Clyde, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, on Monday announced plans for two amendments to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) fiscal 2024 appropriations bill that would “prohibit the use of federal funding for the prosecution of any major presidential candidate prior to the upcoming presidential election on November 5th, 2024,” according to a press release.
prior to the upcoming presidential election on November 5th, 2024
They’re not even subtle.
Even if this was added to the bill, there’s no way it would ever reach the president’s desk. And if it did, there’s no way Biden wouldn’t veto it.
This is just somebody signalling his loyalty to Orange Steal so he can swoop in and grab a little of his powerbase when Orange Steal is serving out his golden years in a jumpsuit that matches his spray tan.
I guarantee you, the Biden administration has a planned timeline they want to see this prosecution play out over, and it ends in a conviction before the election. It has contingencies in place for every bullshit delaying tactic conservatives will try to throw at them. He’s going to jail for a very long time, and I’d say the majority of people are starting to wise up to this fact.
Doesn’t even matter.
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)
Republicans have shot his bills down countless times because he’s mostly a prick to everyone. Nobody likes the guy and he’s hardly useful in any capacity to the GOP outside of a warm body who can physically push a “yea” button when they tell him to push it.
He’s like MTG who is from the close by 14th district except more irritating to listen to and less well put together. Pretty much exactly what you’d expect from rural Georgia yet just less pleasant in pretty much every aspect than most Republicans.
Not only that, guy is a well known coward. His usual response to difficult things is to do his best impression of Zoidberging out of the situation. Guy is worthless skin who’d run for cover if someone started popping popcorn.
Thank fuck, I was worried for a bit that they could actually do something
The New Nazis are not very good at this, are they?
If they’re on that team as it is it’s because they’re: greedy, stupid, cowards, or all of the above.
The New Nazi slogan is: “Wah, ich bin ein Kleinkind! Wechsle meine Windel, frau!”
And their mascot is: https://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/phpthumbnails/81/81118/81118_1_600.jpeg?auto=webp
Shouldn’t these clowns be charged with obstruction of justice?
Yes. They won’t though.
Exercising regular congressional powers by introducing legislation that cuts funding to a judicial body, regardless of the intent, isn’t obstruction of justice.
When your sole purpose is to use extrajudicial force to subvert justice, how on earth is that not obstruction? Congress doesn’t have unilateral authority to undermine the law for their own gain.
I remember when the Republican Senate wanted to delay a supreme court justice selection for an entire until after the elections so the American people could have a say.
2 justices later it’s a month before the election and they cram a 3rd down our throats.
Fuck them forever.
This sums up my feelings quite well. These children are fucking self centered.
They also had plans to indefinitely delay supreme court confirmations in case Hillary won the 2016 election.
I really don’t understand Republican politicians at all.
They HATE Trump. They are almost all in record taking about about how stupid and unfit he is.
Trump LOST the last election. He hurt them badly in the last two midterms. He is dragging the party down.
I understand they are too afraid of his cult to go after him, but they could have just gotten out of the way and let him fail.
There second impeachment could have been the end of him.
These criminal charges could be the end of him.
All they had to do was say: “these are extremely serious charges, and we’re reserving judgement until the judicial system delivers a verdict.”
But instead they are pledging to pardon him, pledging to support him even if convicted, and trying to stop the trials.
INSANITY.
The answer is pretty simple. They do not want to set the precedent that any Republican government official, even the President, can be held liable for their crimes. Most were prepared to let him get impeached (but not actually find him guilty), lose his office, and hope he would fall into obscurity. A slap on the wrist and then a return to status quo is perfectly acceptable to them. But to have the audacity to actually bring charges for even blatant crimes? It’s just not acceptable at all. What if this accountability thing carries over to the rest of government? What if they’re actually held to the law? What if they face consequences for violating the law? What if corruption in government starts to actually be investigated and punished? No no, we can’t have that. There won’t be any Republicans left.
It’s not insane at all.
They know that without the cult they lack the numbers to win any election. They, and their positions, are so frail that they bend knee to the absolute worst humanity has to offer for a chance to feel like they aren’t as neutered as they really are. They can’t even just let the Trump boot-lickers fade away, those willful idiots will just not vote - they have to win the scared racist vote, they need the wheezing Nazis, they can’t survive without the religious who have turned away from their god for Trump.
It’s fear, weakness and desperation. It is more sad than insane. Sad and dangerous.
Republicans are driven, first and foremost, by a “fuck you, got mine” ethos. If, with whatever limited mental capacity they wield, they calculate something that tickles their “fuck you, got mine” neuroreceptors, they act.
I mean Obama pardoned someone that literally committed treason to earn points with the LGBTQ community. Politics and politicians, on both sides of the isle, are out for themselves .
Whatabout what your mom does, down by the docks at night?
Dems:
- Benghazi This is stupid, but we’ll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
- Hunter Biden This is stupid, but we’ll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
- Whitewater This is stupid, but we’ll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
- And so on …
Republicans:
- Any charge POLITICAL WITCHUNT!! STOP THE PROCESS! OVERTHROW THE GOV’T!!
The American people get to decide who wins the White House — not Deep State actors who have shamelessly attacked Donald Trump…
Trump made the decision for himself when he committed those crimes.
Lost 2016 by 3m, 2018 lost 41 delegates in the house, 2020 lost by 7m. He’s a political loser, but the republican part wont cut him off cause they got nothing left to entice voters.
Oh look someone wants to defund the police
No no no not like that
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So, Obstruction of Justice?
I’m somewhat amazed we don’t have any “conflict of interest” laws that say “This is clearly corrupt when you’re making laws to attack ongoing judicial activities”
That would require elected officials to act in good faith. Used to be you would want your elected officials to uphold the law even if it conflicted with party interests. Nowadays the law only applies to the minority party.
Remember when life didn’t suck so much?
Revolutionary optimism. The contradictions are intensifying and the system is falling into crisis. We make the world turn, and we will prevail!
Disconnect from the media. Mainstream, underground, social, all of it. The people truly enjoying their lives aren’t posting it to social media, and we know that traditional media feeds on bad news for ratings, so just leave it behind. You can still drop by to update yourself, but constant intake of what we consider news, is not healthy.
So the tough on crime Republicans want to defund the prosecutor?
Lock him too…if Trump is innocent why not get the trial over‽
Nakedly corrupt.
So a blank check for any federal crime
