If Donald Trump is forced from office prior to the end of his four-year term it will likely go down as one of the most startling collapses in the history of Presidential politics. And while the unfolding investigation has now expanded into the realm of potential criminal conduct led by an unimpeachable special counsel we must…
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Friday linked the timing of Donald Trump’s indictment to Thursday’s announcement by congressional Republicans alleging President Joe Biden was involved in a bribery scheme.
The far-right congresswoman from Georgia suggested that Biden should have been arrested Thursday over the unsubstantiated claims.
Her statement came during a speech Friday after Jack Smith announced the unsealing of a 37-count indictment alleging Trump mishandled classified documents in violation of the Espionage Act. The former president is scheduled to be arraigned in Miami on Tuesday.
Biden dismissed the allegations Republicans leveled against him as a “bunch of malarky.”
“And it is no coincidence that yesterday, when we walk out of the skiff in the Capitol and bring out the most damning credible evidence against Joe Biden, impeachable offenses, and I'll argue this, he should have been hauled out of the White House yesterday in handcuffs, right?” Greene said to thunderous cheers during an appearance at the Georgia Republican convention.
“But instead, what was the news cycle last night? That they have indicted President Trump for mishandling classified documents. You should be outraged.
“Good because I'm with you,” she said to more applause from her audience.
“But let me tell you something, it's going to get worse. It is not going to get better, it's going to get worse because they are going to continue,” she said.
“They don't want you to ever win elections again. They do not want you to ever be able to pick who you want to live in the White House and to run this country or hold any other political office.
“They don't want you in charge. They want to be in charge.”
Donald Trump's former personal valet Walt Nauta could "flip" on Trump, which would result in "lights out" for the former president's legal case, a constitutional attorney said on Fox News on Friday.
George Washington University Law professor Jonathan Turley, who has been a frequent defender of Trump but has recently acknowledged the severity of the legal threat posed by Jack Smith's charges, appeared on Fox to address the question of how things could get worse for the former president, who was hit with 37 counts in the case over classified document handling.
Nauta was also indicted.
The question, according to Turley, is, "Can this get worse? Because it's pretty darned bad," he told the Fox host.
"And the answer is: 'Yeah.' This co-defendant, Nauta, if he were to flip, could really put the lights out on the defense," he said. "This indictment is clearly designed to concentrate his mind again on whether he will cooperate."
Turley added that the "key" for the defense team is that "they've got 37 counts in a 76-year-old client."
"In this deluge, they've got to walk through those counts and not get wet," he added. "They can't have a single count that actually lands with a guilty verdict because these are coming with ten to 20 year maximum sentences."
Some of Donald Trump's most vocal supporters lashed out with violent rhetoric after news broke that the former president was indicted for his handling of classified information, VICE News reported.
“We need to start killing these traitorous f---stains,” wrote one person on the the pro-Trump messaging board, The Donald.
“It's not gonna stop until bodies start stacking up. We are not civilly represented anymore and they'll come for us next. Some of us, they already have," wrote another.
Another person shared an article about Attorney General Merrick Garland's family, prompting one user to reply, “His children are fair game as far as I’m concerned.”
One person wrote that it's time for a "civil war" that the Democrats "have been trying to start for years now."
The 44-page indictment alleges that Trump "endeavored to obstruct the FBI and grand jury investigations and conceal retention of classified documents."
Even some GOP members of Congress apparently encouraged violence.
“We have now reached a war phase,” tweeted Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ). “Eye for an eye.”
And Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) tweeted out a message that a militia expert said was a coded message effectively calling for civil war. "This is scary as hell," said award-winning journalist Jeff Sharlet.
Read the full report over at VICE News.
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