Donald Trump, brazenly and repeatedly, tried to get the Justice Department to go after his perceived political foes. As stevebenen writes, we're apparently supposed to believe that Sen. Ron Johnson doesn't remember any of this.
After the FBI executed a court-approved search warrant at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s Republican allies tried to peddle all kinds of odd talking points, many of which dealt with Hillary Clinton. Take Rep. Michael Waltz, for example.
Last August, the Republican congressman from Florida told Fox News, in all seriousness, that after Trump became president, he made a conscious choice“President Trump took that approach. He said, ’You know what, we’re not going to prosecute Hillary Clinton,’”, as if reality had no meaning. The GOP lawmaker added, “[Trump] said, ‘You know what, let’s move on. Let’s move forward.’”
That wasn’t even close to resembling reality, but the line hasn’t disappeared. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin“President Ford decided it was best for America not to pursue prosecution against President Nixon. President Trump pretty much made the same decision and decided not to pursue any kind of prosecution of Hillary Clinton. Joe Biden could have made the exact same decision, but he didn’t.
In other words, as the far-right Wisconsin senator sees it, part of the problem here is that President Biden is a big meanie. Why doesn’t he show the kind of magnanimity that Trump showed when he decided to leave Hillary Clinton alone? At this point, I could take a few paragraphs to explain that Biden has nothing to do with his predecessor’s prosecution — the indictment came by way of an independent special counsel and a grand jury, not the Oval Office — followed by several more sentences about the fact that Clinton wasn’t charged becauseBut that’s not what made Johnson’s comments so striking. Rather, what’s amazing are the events the Republican senator appears to have forgotten.
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