Insurrection Investigation, Con't

Republicans are threatening retaliation for the indictment of Trump regime chancre Steve Bannon, as if somehow the first this House Republicans would do if they took over in 2023 wasn't retaliation.

 

Republicans are rallying around former White House adviser Stephen K. Bannon after his indictment on charges of contempt of Congress on Friday, warning that Democrats’ efforts to force Bannon to comply with what they say is an unfair subpoena paves the way for them to do the same if they take back the House in 2022.

Bannon, like former president Donald Trump, has refused to comply with an order from the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection to turn over records and testify about his actions leading up to the attack, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol trying to stop the certification of President Biden’s electoral college win.

Bannon is expected to turn himself in to law enforcement Monday ahead of a court appearance that afternoon. Democrats and a handful of anti-Trump Republicans argue that the indictment was necessary to enforce subpoenas issued by the Jan. 6 committee to Trump associates who are resisting cooperation and to witnesses summoned by other congressional panels.

Many GOP leaders, however, are seizing on Bannon’s indictment to contend that Democrats are “weaponizing” the Justice Department, warning Democrats that they will go after Biden’s aides for unspecified reasons if they take back the House majority in next year’s midterm elections, as most political analysts expect.

“For years, Democrats baselessly accused President Trump of ‘weaponizing’ the DOJ. In reality, it is the Left that has been weaponizing the DOJ the ENTIRE TIME — from the false Russia Hoax to the Soviet-style prosecution of political opponents,” Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), the third-ranking House Republican, tweeted Saturday.

Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) suggested that Republicans would seek payback if the GOP regained control of the House, signaling that in challenging the doctrine of executive privilege, Democrats were making it easier for Republicans to force Biden’s top advisers to testify before a future GOP Congress.

“Joe Biden has evicerated Executive Privilege,” Jordan wrote on Twitter. “There are a lot of Republicans eager to hear testimony from Ron Klain and Jake Sullivan when we take back the House.” Sullivan is Biden’s national security adviser and Klain is the White House Chief of Staff.

 

First of all, Bannon's indictment for refusing to testify on a seditious conspiracy and the threatened indictment of Biden advisers is not exactly apples and apples, folks. Second, when Republicans help Lois Lerner and Erick Holder in contempt, both of them were cooperating, and Republicans still sent them up for prosecution, which not even the Trump DOJ would do.

Second, Boebert and her goon friends are promising politically-motivated indictments of Democrats for crimes to be created later. Does anyone care that Republicans are openly threatening to abuse power to harm opponents? Isn't that the real story here?

Third, why is this being reported as "but both sides disagree" by the broken media here? Boy, they really want the GOP back in power to sell clicks, papers, and access, don't they?

It's all ridiculous.