The indictments of Letitia James and James Comey echo a chilling moment from the “Army-McCarthy Hearings” in 1954, when U.S. Army counsel Joseph N. Welch told Senator Joseph McCarthy, “Until this moment, senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.”
When President Trump orders these indictments and the lackeys in the Department of Justice oblige; when Attorney General Pam Bondi refuses to answer questions from Democrats at an oversight hearing; and when FBI Director Kash Patel refuses to answer questions about the cushy prison transfer of serial sexual child abuser Ghislaine Maxwell, I wish attorney Welch were here to ask his famous question of everyone in Trump’s Cabinet.
They are all complicit in allowing a clearly diminished president to stay in office and use the position to get revenge on people who called him to task for his many crimes.
Mark Wieting
Palolo
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