Tag: GOP attack on the rule of law

Trump’s Big Lies About the FBI

The following article by Joe Conason was posted on the Creators.com website May 22, 2018:

Arguing with Donald Trump and the president’s most fervent supporters is usually a wasted effort. If they truly believe his paranoid whining about “the deep state conspiracy” to oust him, they’re not much interested in facts or logic.

Trump’s increasing efforts to promote confusion over the origins and conduct of the Russia investigation nevertheless deserve to be refuted. So do his repeated complaints that he is the victim of a political scandal even worse than Watergate.

He can continuously bamboozle his Fox-befuddled followers because the Russia saga is complex and convoluted — and because they all live in his world of “alternative truths.” It is not the real world that the rest of us inhabit. Continue reading “Trump’s Big Lies About the FBI”

GOP leaders’ complicity grows as their members undermine the rule of law

The following commentary by the Washington Post Editorial Board was posted on their website January 25, 2018:


Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on Capitol Hill on Thursday. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

A FOREIGN power interfered in the 2016 presidential election. U.S. law enforcement is trying to get to the bottom of that story. Congress should be doing everything possible to make sure the investigation can take place. Instead, to protect the president of their party, who may or may not be complicit, Republican leaders in Congress are allowing and encouraging the baseless slander of the investigators.

It is a new low for the leadership, and one that could do lasting harm to the nation.

Cravenness in the Republican leaders’ response to Donald Trump is nothing new. During the presidential campaign, few stood up to his nativism and ugly ethnic slurs. Since he became president, even fewer have stood by their previous commitments to U.S. leadership abroad and fiscal responsibility at home. As he has trampled long-established norms, such as releasing annual tax returns, we’ve heard not a peep from the Article I branch. Continue reading “GOP leaders’ complicity grows as their members undermine the rule of law”

GOP feud with FBI ratchets up

The following article by Katie Bo Williams was posted on the Hill website January 24, 2018:

The knives are out for the FBI on Capitol Hill.

Conservative lawmakers from four separate committees are raising alarm bells about a tranche of missing text messages between two FBI agents assigned to the investigation into Russia and President Trump’s campaign, saying it calls into “further question the credibility and objectivity of certain officials at the FBI.” Continue reading “GOP feud with FBI ratchets up”