Gym's attacks on DA Willis will not work
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/28/jim-jordan-investigation-fani-willis-indictment-of-trump/
Because Rep. Jim Jordan (Ohio) cares deeply about the plight of the unfairly accused, he has launched yet another House GOP effort to protect Donald Trump from prosecution. The Judiciary Committee, which Jordan chairs, is demanding that Georgia prosecutor Fani T. Willis turn over documents related to her indictment of the former president over his insurrection attempt.
Jordan’s game — using House investigations to protect Trump at all costs — is transparent. Yet if he really pursues this to a maximal extent, he will end up forcing many other Republicans to take difficult votes on future subpoenas — aligning them with Trump and putting their reelection at risk — without protecting Trump in any meaningful way.
It’s highly unlikely GOP leaders — despite their public bluster on Trump’s behalf — have any intention of letting things proceed that far. The whole project is almost surely a doomed charade at the outset......
For years now, a leading project of much of the GOP has been to treat Trump’s unprecedented corruption as beyond reproach and accountability in every conceivable way. That strong-arming of the Ukrainian president? It wasn’t extortion, just Trump setting foreign policy. That wide-ranging plot to corrupt the government in so many brazen ways to hijack a second term illegitimately? It was merely Trump exercising his legal options. That incitement of a mob to storm Congress? It was just a protest — or something akin to a tourist visit.,,,,
“I don’t know of any mechanism for Congress to prevent Trump from having to face a jury,” Hashimoto told me. Even if that’s the one thing Trump seems to want to avoid above all.
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