While TrumpWorld maybe in a statre of disbelief and annoyance?
The same CANNOT be said for the other side of the political aisle….
DA Alvin Bragg firedback at House Republicans trying to carry the water for the ex-President…
Democratrs stay quiet, but smile at the other gvuys discomfort and reality check….
And?
An former FBI Director that messed upon on his own and, got himself fired, also is smiling ……
As of Friday morning, the indictment remains sealed, with specific charges against Trump unknown. On his Truth Social platform, Trump has kept up a steady stream of attacks on Bragg in all-caps-heavy posts and condemned the indictment…
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Jordan’s demands of Bragg’s office have drawn sharp criticism from Democrats, who pointed out that the right-wing lawmaker had ignored a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Jan. 6 committee later voted to refer Jordan and other GOP lawmakers who had also defied its subpoenas to the House Ethics Committee.
Update….
MSNBC is reporting the indictmant’s number is for about THIRTY charges ……
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For Democrats?
The wait is OVER?
The ball is rolling?
And Caution…
In some ways, it was the turn of events Democratic voters had dreamed of and some of the party’s lawmakers had long demanded: After years of telling lies, shattering norms, inciting a riot at the Capitol and being impeached twice, Donald J. Trump on Thursday became the first former president to face criminal charges.
“We’ve been waiting for the dam to break for six years,” declared Carter Hudgins, 73, a retired professor from Charleston, S.C. “It should have happened a long time ago,” added his wife, Donna Hudgins, 71, a retired librarian.
But as the gravity of the moment sank in, Democratic voters, party officials and activists across the country absorbed the news of Mr. Trump’s extraordinary indictment with a more complex set of reactions. Their feelings ranged from jubilation and vindication to anxieties about the substance of the case, concerns that it could heighten Mr. Trump’s standing in his party and fears that in such a polarized environment, Republicans would struggle to muster basic respect for the rule of law as the facts unfolded.
“They are going to treat him as if he is Jesus Christ himself on a cross being persecuted,” said Representative Jasmine Crockett, a Texas Democrat from Dallas who worked as a criminal defense lawyer before she was elected to Congress last year. She blasted Republican arguments that the charges were politically motivated, saying, “We knew the type of person Trump was when he got elected the first time.”….
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“There were any number of things that he could have been indicted for, and this was probably the least of them,” he said.
Other Democrats made clear that while they welcomed this indictment, they believed Mr. Trump should be held accountable for far more.
“No one is above the law,” Representative Barbara Lee, a liberal California lawmaker now running for Senate, wrote on Twitter. “Now do the rest of his crimes.”
FBI James Comey has his day….
Former FBI Director James Comey praised the unprecedented indictment of former President Trump by a Manhattan grand jury on Thursday, by tweeting, “It’s been a good day.”
Trump was indicted after Manhattan District Attorney Alivn Bragg had been investigating Trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election.
Comey, who was fired by Trump in 2017 and one of the central figures involved in the Russia collusion case against Trump and the Steele dossier, echoed comments made by other Trump opponents on Twitter….
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