Sen. J.D. Vance, the former hillbilly (see: Elegy) and Yale Law School grad, and current U.S. Senator from Ohio — offered up some fighting words from the steps of the U.S. Capitol on the day of former President Donald Trump‘s court date in Miami.
Trump was charged with 37 criminal counts for activities even his handpicked Attorney General Bill Barr characterized “reckless and totally wrong.”
When your own handpicked AG calls your conduct reckless and totally wrong, then you know you’re in trouble. This is what happens when you keep top secret government documents in a spare bathroom at your country club. https://t.co/Wmkike6cS6
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) June 11, 2023
But Vance isn’t fighting the DOJ charges per se. Like many of his MAGA cohorts, Vance is instead waging battle against the justice system that brought the charges.
His incendiary rhetoric is offered to undermine the integrity and authority of the DOJ and Attorney General Merrick Garland — for harboring what Vance views as a systemic political acrimony toward Trump that, in his opinion, has driven a meritless prosecution.
While Republicans and former Trump supporters like Barr and GOP presidential candidate Chris Christie disagree with that narrative and respect the DOJ’s decisions in the latest Trump case, Vance proposes that the so-called “weaponized” Justice Department must be stopped.
“I think what we have to do,” says Vance, “is grind this department to a halt until Merrick Garland promises to do his job and stop going after his political opponents.”
[NOTE: Vance’s accusation neglects that Garland named independent Special Counsels to investigate in both the Trump documents case and the Biden documents case.]
Yes @JDVance1!
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) June 13, 2023
Thank you!
Action is the only way forward.
Stop the weaponized government and hold them accountable! https://t.co/9BNnbVXlQW
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene cheered Vance, sharing and writing in response: “Stop the weaponized government and hold them accountable!”
[NOTE: Greene and her legislative peers like Jim Jordan and James Comer have their own weaponized government vehicle — the House Oversight Committee — with which they have targeted Democrats including President Biden and independent agencies like the FBI. Comer’s House Oversight is not what Greene is suggesting to stop.]
Go yell at the people of Miami that voted to indict Trump you’re such a bootlicker. @JDVance1 such a waste of oxygen and space. pic.twitter.com/QJruhDozZG
— Skyleigh Heinen (@Sky_Lee_1) June 13, 2023
But activist and disabled U.S. Army veteran Skyleigh Heinen drops a harsh truth bomb on Vance’s insinuations about Trump’s indictment. Heinen points out that Vance’s long list of villains — Biden, Garland, DOJ, Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Radical Left and the mainstream media — aren’t the parties responsible for Trump’s indictment.
Because Trump — as Vance the Yale-trained lawyer also knows — wasn’t indicted by any of the vilified figures above, but by a 23-person grand jury in Florida, a red state with a Republican Governor and two Republican Senators.
[Notably, Florida hasn’t elected a Democrat as Governor this century.]
It is a matter of fact, as Heinen observes, that citizens of Florida serving on the grand jury indicted Donald Trump. Trump, if the case eventually goes to court, will also have a jury of Florida citizens — without any federal bureaucrats — decide on his innocence or guilt.
As Chris Christie notes, putting an emphasis on the facts not the politics, that’s as it should be. “Nobody,” Christie writes, “is above the law.”
We don’t get our news from Trump’s Truth Social account. Let’s see what the facts are when any possible indictment is released. As I have said before, no one is above the law, no matter how much they wish they were. We will have more to say when the facts are revealed.
— Chris Christie (@GovChristie) June 9, 2023
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