Two liars during confirmation & far worse today
(AG Pam Bondi & FBI Director Kashyap Patel)
Article highlights below are from ABC NEWS here (edited and formatted to fit the blog).
AG Pam Bondi rejected that Trump's pardons for 1,500 rioters who assaulted police during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol creates a double standard with the administration's aggressive response to violence at immigration
protests in Los Angeles. Bondi said in part: "Well, this is very different. These are people out in California hurting people right now. This is ongoing."
Dem Gov. Gavin Newsom slammed the Trump administration for its actions against his wishes and cited inconsistency in the president's actions, saying: "Trump is not opposed to lawlessness and violence, as long as it serves him. What more evidence do we need than January 6?"
Trump's and other officials' attempts to stoke outrage over videos showing attacks on law enforcement in Los Angeles has been the subject of some mockery on social media with Dems and other critics of the administration posting comparisons to the assaults law enforcement were subject to on January 6, when a pro-Trump mob descended on the US Capitol.
More than 140 police officers suffered injuries during that riot as they were beaten by objects ranging from baseball bats and hockey sticks to rocks and even an American flag. Trump then has since pardoned nearly all of the 1,500 people charged in connection with that assault on the Capitol extended to more than 450 charged with assaulting or impeding officers;
300 of whom still had not had their cases fully adjudicated.
During Bondi's Senate confirmation hearing prior to Inauguration Day, she said she believed any pardons for defendants should be evaluated on a "case-to-case basis" and suggested that she would be opposed to pardons for those accused of assaulting law enforcement officers, saying: "Let me be very clear in speaking to you: I condemn any violence on a law enforcement officer in this country."
Bondi has not publicly commented on Trump's pardons since then.
She now says: "Right now in California, we're at a good point. We're not scared to go further. We're not frightened to do something else if we need to."
FBI Director Kash Patel did notably distance himself during his confirmation hearing from Trump's pardons for the violence on January 6 and the offenders, saying: "I have always rejected any violence against law enforcement. And I do not agree with the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.”
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My 2 Cents: Pretty clear where those two are today: right in line with whatever Trump says, wants, does, or intends to do.
Case closed now as we wait to see what else leads to the end of our American way of life by those two plus whatever new comes from Dictator Don too.
Just that simple to say in my view for what we see Trump, et al of his MAGA lackeys in tow doing that day is very close to day zero.
Stay tuned.
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