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House Republican aims to defund Trump prosecutions until 2024 election

Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.) is proposing two amendments to an appropriations bill that would defund the various prosecutions of former President Trump.

He is adding to the defense of the former president mounted by Trump allies in the House as they circle the wagons in the face of four indictments.

Clyde, a member of the House Appropriations Committee, on Monday announced plans for two amendments to the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) fiscal 2024 appropriations bill that would “prohibit the use of federal funding for the prosecution of any major presidential candidate prior to the upcoming presidential election on November 5th, 2024,” according to a press release.

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prior to the upcoming presidential election on November 5th, 2024
They're not even subtle.
- It's so... Disappointing that they're rallying behind this decrepit, puss filled slug.
  
  It’s because they are guilty of shit too, and they are afraid of their shit coming to light as well
- Doesn't even matter.
  Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-Ga.)
  Republicans have shot his bills down countless times because he's mostly a prick to everyone. Nobody likes the guy and he's hardly useful in any capacity to the GOP outside of a warm body who can physically push a "yea" button when they tell him to push it.
  He's like MTG who is from the close by 14th district except more irritating to listen to and less well put together. Pretty much exactly what you'd expect from rural Georgia yet just less pleasant in pretty much every aspect than most Republicans.
  Not only that, guy is a well known coward. His usual response to difficult things is to do his best impression of Zoidberging out of the situation. Guy is worthless skin who'd run for cover if someone started popping popcorn.
  
  Let's hope not, or if so let's hope it's very hard to prove... If Biden has all that planned, it would suggest executive interference and politically motivated prosecution. Don't get me wrong, Trump needs to crash and burn, just saying...
Shouldn't these clowns be charged with obstruction of justice?
- Yes, but spoiler alert: they won’t.
I remember when the Republican Senate wanted to delay a supreme court justice selection for an entire until after the elections so the American people could have a say.
2 justices later it's a month before the election and they cram a 3rd down our throats.
Fuck them forever.
- Not before an election. During an election. Early voting had already started.
- This sums up my feelings quite well. These children are fucking self centered.
- They also had plans to indefinitely delay supreme court confirmations in case Hillary won the 2016 election.
Dems:
Benghazi This is stupid, but we'll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
Hunter Biden This is stupid, but we'll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
Whitewater This is stupid, but we'll sit through all these dumb ass hearings and waste money to appease these shitheads
And so on ...
Republicans:
Any charge POLITICAL WITCHUNT!! STOP THE PROCESS! OVERTHROW THE GOV'T!!
I really don't understand Republican politicians at all.
They HATE Trump. They are almost all in record taking about about how stupid and unfit he is.
Trump LOST the last election. He hurt them badly in the last two midterms. He is dragging the party down.
I understand they are too afraid of his cult to go after him, but they could have just gotten out of the way and let him fail.
There second impeachment could have been the end of him.
These criminal charges could be the end of him.
All they had to do was say: "these are extremely serious charges, and we're reserving judgement until the judicial system delivers a verdict."
But instead they are pledging to pardon him, pledging to support him even if convicted, and trying to stop the trials.
INSANITY.
- The answer is pretty simple. They do not want to set the precedent that any Republican government official, even the President, can be held liable for their crimes. Most were prepared to let him get impeached (but not actually find him guilty), lose his office, and hope he would fall into obscurity. A slap on the wrist and then a return to status quo is perfectly acceptable to them. But to have the audacity to actually bring charges for even blatant crimes? It's just not acceptable at all. What if this accountability thing carries over to the rest of government? What if they're actually held to the law? What if they face consequences for violating the law? What if corruption in government starts to actually be investigated and punished? No no, we can't have that. There won't be any Republicans left.
- It's not insane at all.
  They know that without the cult they lack the numbers to win any election. They, and their positions, are so frail that they bend knee to the absolute worst humanity has to offer for a chance to feel like they aren't as neutered as they really are. They can't even just let the Trump boot-lickers fade away, those willful idiots will just not vote - they have to win the scared racist vote, they need the wheezing Nazis, they can't survive without the religious who have turned away from their god for Trump.
  It's fear, weakness and desperation. It is more sad than insane. Sad and dangerous.
- It's theatrical for their stupid base. They have to come up with "evidence" that Biden bad, democrats bad. What better way than to find super scary "evidence" and making up shit that never happened to go along with the grift?
- You got some level headed replies so I'm going to put on my conspiracy hat. He is the Russian pick. He also gets along well with China. That is who the career Republicans are really afraid of crossing. You can talk all the shit you want as long as you vote for the right things. Including keeping trump in power.
- Republicans are driven, first and foremost, by a “fuck you, got mine” ethos. If, with whatever limited mental capacity they wield, they calculate something that tickles their “fuck you, got mine” neuroreceptors, they act.
- Chelsea Manning? She was a whistleblower...
  
  Whatabout what your mom does, down by the docks at night?
Get fucked. Orange traitor is going to jail no matter what happens in the federal cases.
- Lost 2016 by 3m, 2018 lost 41 delegates in the house, 2020 lost by 7m. He's a political loser, but the republican part wont cut him off cause they got nothing left to entice voters.
So, Obstruction of Justice?
- Also? They should Rico-ize the insurrection charges and scoop up all these traitors,
Oh look someone wants to defund the police
- No no no not like that
How does everyone healthily cope with all this modern day political stuff?
It feels hopeless sometimes... All of it. Cost of living, social divisions, unbelievably unprofessional everything from cops to politicians, safety, mass shootings, education, jobs, jobs that pay, medications, unhealthy-food/water, weather....
I get caught in the loop easily. And in my personal reality, yeah I have it better than a lot of people in this world.... But it's like it doesn't mean anything because in this culture I feel like ...cut off from soul and the essence of what life is.
- Just remember this is all temporary, the universe is enormous and nothing we stupid humans do matters. One day we'll be gone and it will be like we never existed.
  
  This. I look forward to this. Almost every day.
- Volunteer with your local voting groups and get people registered to vote
I'm somewhat amazed we don't have any "conflict of interest" laws that say "This is clearly corrupt when you're making laws to attack ongoing judicial activities"
- This would require some sense of personal accountability, which is clearly missing amongst many of our so-called leaders.
- That would require elected officials to act in good faith. Used to be you would want your elected officials to uphold the law even if it conflicted with party interests. Nowadays the law only applies to the minority party.
  
  Just to clarify, you realize that republicans are actually in the minority, right? barely, but they're fewer voting republicans than there are voting democrats
So the tough on crime Republicans want to defund the prosecutor?
Nakedly corrupt.
It sounds like an effort to obstruct justice in furtherance of an indicted criminal enterprise.
The boot licking is strong with this one.
the only defense for him
So a blank check for any federal crime

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