{"id":57373,"date":"2023-07-12T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57373"},"modified":"2023-07-12T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T20:47:34","slug":"gop-holds-another-hearing-to-berate-the-fbi-ends-up-exposing-trumps-cesspool-of-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57373","title":{"rendered":"GOP Holds Another Hearing to Berate the FBI, Ends Up Exposing Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Cesspool of Corruption&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to respond to Republican yowling about the agency&#8217;s investigations into Donald Trump and his ever growing rap sheet of crimes. The former occupier of the White House has already been indicted on over 70 counts ranging from obstruction of justice to mishandling classified documents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=GOP Holds Another Hearing to Berate the FBI, Ends Up Exposing Trump's 'Cesspool of Corruption'%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57373\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to Tweet this article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/jim-jordan-biden-emails.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Jordan, Biden&#039;s Emails\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56937\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Judiciary Committee, chaired by ultra MAGA minion, Jim Jordan, is seeking to slander the FBI for allegedly <em>&#8220;weaponizing&#8221;<\/em> the Department of Justice and persecuting poor beleaguered Dear Leader Trump. This is an objective that Jordan and the GOP have been attempting to pursue, with decidedly disastrous results, ever since assuming their bare majority in the House.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=56328\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New GOP Subcommittee Chair Openly Admits His Only Purpose is to \u2018Make Life Hell\u2019 for Democrats<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The hearing on Wednesday provided Democrats an opportunity to counter the dishonest Republican narrative that federal law enforcement was conspiring to destroy Trump and his anti-American MAGA movement. Among the Democratic representatives who availed themselves of this opportunity was California Rep. Ted Lieu. His well composed litany of the cretinous nature of the Trump administration was both informative and chilling. And he made his points simply by asking Wray a series of simple questions&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Trump adviser Roger Stone was convicted in a federal court, correct?<\/li>\n<li>Trump donor Elliott Broidy was convicted in a federal court, correct?<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was convicted in federal court, correct?<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s former deputy campaign manager Rick Gates was convicted in federal court, correct?<\/li>\n<li>Trump&#8217;s campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos was convicted in federal court, correct?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">During questioning with FBI Director Christopher Wray, House Dems Vice Chair Ted Lieu runs through a list of Trump officials who were convicted in federal court:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6zzpO0zGi\">pic.twitter.com\/N6zzpO0zGi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/therecount\/status\/1679162472819830785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Lieu actually left out a few of Trump&#8217;s most conspicuous criminal cohorts, including Rudy Giuliani, Jeff Clark, Peter Navarro, Steve Bannon, Tom Barrack, Michael Flynn, and Allen Weisselberg. However, he delivered a succinct summary that put the criminality of Trump&#8217;s tenure in perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What these facts show is that we don&#8217;t have a two-tier system of justice. We have one Department of Justice that goes after criminals regardless of party ideology. All of these folks were convicted under the administrations of three separate Republican attorneys general (Jeff Sessions, Matt Whitaker, and Bill Barr). It is not the fault of the FBI that Donald Trump surrounded himself with criminals. Donald Trump brought that on himself. Thank you to the FBI for exposing the cesspool of corruption of these Trump associates.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And therein lies the root of the problem that Republicans have with law enforcement. Even when their own officials &#8211; including Wray himself, a Trump appointee &#8211; administer justice fairly and without political bias, Republicans will revolt if their own members are found to be crooks. That&#8217;s because they care more about their grip on power than about their country.<\/p>\n<p>The undisputed champion of this malicious mauling of American justice is, of course, Trump himself. From his earliest campaign chants of <em>&#8220;lock her up&#8221;<\/em> directed at Hillary Clinton who had never been convicted or even charged with a crime, to his recent lament that Hunter Biden wasn&#8217;t executed for using drugs and not paying his taxes. Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/110696721615287666\">complained<\/a> on his <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57278\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, that U.S. Attorney David Weiss (another Trump appointee) was a <em>&#8220;coward&#8221;<\/em> because he let Hunter off with <em>&#8220;a traffic ticket instead of a death sentence.&#8221;<\/em> But to the GOP it is Democrats who are <em>&#8220;weaponizing&#8221;<\/em> justice. And they will continue to hold these sham hearings even though they inevitably just humiliate themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57206\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scared and Desperate Trump Begs Congress to Save Him From the Meanies Prosecuting His Crimes<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/newscorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/newsie.social\/@NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mastodon<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FBI director Christopher Wray appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday to respond to Republican yowling about the agency&#8217;s investigations into Donald Trump and his ever growing rap sheet of crimes. The former occupier of the White House has already been indicted on over 70 counts ranging from obstruction of justice to mishandling classified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1201,1200,8,16],"tags":[1315,554,1173,1323,123,301,1456],"class_list":["post-57373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-justice","category-politics","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-christopher-wray","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-jim-jordan","tag-justice","tag-republicans","tag-ted-lieu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/jim-jordan-biden-emails.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-eVn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57006,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=57006","url_meta":{"origin":57373,"position":0},"title":"McCarthy Threatens FBI Director with Contempt for Not Aiding His Petty Persecution of Biden","author":"Mark NC","date":"5\/31\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The Republican controlled House of Representatives has rapidly proven that it has no real interest in governing and is utterly unfit to do so. 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