Four criminal indictments of Donald Trump have ignited his followers and spurred his House Republican allies to try to use the upcoming government funding deadline of Sept. 30 as leverage to undermine the prosecutions.
The bad news for them: A government shutdown wouldn’t halt the criminal proceedings against the former president.
Trump’s indictments in New York and Georgia would not be affected, while his federal indictments — for allegedly mishandling classified documents and for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection — are criminal matters that have been exempted from shutdowns in the past. The Justice Department said in a 2021 memo that in a shutdown, “Criminal litigation will continue without interruption as an activity essential to the safety of human life and the protection of property.” The Justice Department’s plans assume that the judicial branch remains fully operational, which it has said in the past can carry on for weeks in the event of a funding lapse.
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As a result, Republicans are looking at ways to insert provisions in government funding legislation that would hinder federal and state prosecutors who have secured indictments of Trump, based on unproven claims that he’s being politically targeted.
It’s scary how much most Republicans don’t give a shit about anything, they have no shame or anything remotely close to decency.
They accuse Democrats of foul play, and scream and shout about ti, even when there is nothing there, and we have evidence Republicans do 10 times worse.
It’s insane that the Trump campaign in 2016 shouted lock her up about Hillary for having used the wrong mail account in some cases. Yet they have no problems with Trump doing 100 times worse, stealing documents, and using secret communications channels to talk to Putin for christ sake.
Trump supporters are traitors to USA and democratic values.