Trump's latest eruption underscores the danger of a GOP House

[Nevilledog]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/08/15/trump-fbi-defund-holman-rule/

No paywall
https://archive.ph/i2w2B

Donald Trump spent the weekend raging at the FBI for searching his Mar-a-Lago resort, which he depicted as a “break in” and an “ABUSE,” while charging that the documents recovered there might have been a “plant.” He was joined by many Republicans, who widely denounced the search as a “witch hunt” or political “persecution.”

The apparent position of Republicans loyal to Trump is that any law enforcement activity targeting him is by definition illegitimate, no matter how grave the suspected activity. So a GOP-controlled House next year would likely undermine investigations into Trump any way it can, regardless of what is learned about Trump in the interim.

But the precise nature of this threat is poorly understood. While many have noted that a GOP House could stage phony Benghazi-like hearings, there’s another possibility: using specific parliamentary tools to, in essence, defund the investigators.

Such a tactic could badly complicate efforts to hold Trump accountable and could lead to government shutdowns and other chaos. The prospect is even more dire when you consider that a GOP House would contain a large faction of feral Trumpists who see making Trump untouchable by the law as their highest calling.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. The GOP is doing to the US what Putin did to Russia.

Suck out as much of the nation's money as possible, then make it all legal.
Have GOP lackeys across government who look the other way.

[Pelosi Pepperment]

2. They said it would only take 6 months

To disband the fbi. Apparently some gop folks are saying this.

I thought they were pro police? And law and order?