Another in an ongoing series:
Dear Senator McCormick;
I am a constituent of yours and I'd like to ask you a few questions.
I'd like to ask you about the recent indictment of former head of the FBI, James Comey.
On NBC this weekend, former Trump White House attorney Ty Cobb said this:
Well, I think we should be scared to death. First of all, at 30,000 feet, the fact that a man was indicted—someone the Justice Department in the ordinary course of traditional processes investigated and concluded there was insufficient evidence to justify a criminal prosecution—because he was an enemy of the President, and because the President ordered his feckless Attorney General to prosecute him, that should scare us all. Justice Jackson, when he was Attorney General in 1940, made it very plain that targeting individuals, as opposed to merely investigating crimes, was the distinction between America and Third World regimes.
I'll reiterate what Cobb said:
[T]he fact that a man was indicted...because he was an enemy of the President, and because the President ordered his feckless Attorney General to prosecute him, that should scare us all.
Elsewhere in the interview he said:
This is narcissistic vengeance at its core. This is authoritarianism.
On CBS, he said this:
The simple themes are rewriting history. Trump wants to rewrite history so that, you know, the next generation may not know that he incited a violent insurrection, refused to peacefully transfer the power of the presidency after losing an election, stole classified documents and showed them to friends and- and guests at Mar-a-Lago, you know, and that he was a criminal. I mean, he's a convicted felon. All- all anybody involved in those events that offended him, they're- they're in real danger.
The MAGA-GOP for years have been complaining about how President Biden politicized DOJ but, given what this former Trump White House attorney said this weekend, isn't it the case that the real (and dangerous) politicization is occurring right now?
This is America, Senator. When will you stand up and say, "This is not supposed to happen."?
I'll await your answer.
As always, I'll post here whatever answer I get from you or your office, Senator.
