Politics | 2020 Election
Republicans are Inching Toward a Government Takeover with Every Statement They Utter
This is an attempted coup. Call it nothing else.
It was just a week ago that the President was pardoning the former National Security Advisor who pleaded guilty to felonies, basically wiping the slate clean of the crimes the fallen-from-grace official in Trump’s early inner circle had positively confessed to. That case wasn’t ambiguous either. Here we had a man who confessed to the crime who suddenly did a turnabout, replacing his defense team with lawyers he hired from Fox News, suddenly recant his confessions that were made on multiple occasions, facing what seemed to be insurmountable evidence against him.
Judge Emmett Sullivan who handled the Flynn case said of the Flynn case, “I’m not hiding my disgust, my disdain, for this criminal offense,” and also queried whether or not Flynn may have committed treason, even going so far as asking prosecutors if such a crime as treason may have taken place.
Flynn’s fall from grace was anything but, well, graceful. On the Fourth of July, America’s Independence Day, the former military general saluted a debunked (and crazy) Internet conspiracy group, Qanon, by posting a video of himself reciting the slogan, “Where…
