EDITOR: The Maricopa County Republican Committee released the following email today. Remember this well, those of you who are registered Independent or Other party, and principled conservatives registered Republican – Maricopa Republicans hereby fully endorse Trump’s criminal behavior and condemn investigating or charging Trump for the crimes he is credibly alleged to have committed. A vote for a Republican – at any level in Arizona – is now a vote for NOT holding public officials accountable for their criminal acts. It is now a vote AGAINST law and order and the application of the rule of law to everyone. It is now a vote for letting American leaders PROFIT by their crimes. It is now a vote to condone CRIMINAL ACTS by the most powerful. If you now vote for Republican candidates at any level, be assured, you are voting for lawlessness and the end of the rule of law in favor of rule by unaccountable despots.
Please note that the vote to support Trump’s criminality was UNNANIMOUS! It WASN”T just a MAGA faction doing this – it was every single member of the Executive Guidance Committee. I have no doubt that if this were a vote of the whole Membership of the Committee, it would NOT have been unanimous. It is now incumbent on those PCs who do not agree with this to make their disagreement plain, public and LOUD, and RESIGN as Republican Party PCs, effective immediately, and announce your resignation to the press.
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EDITOR: Note well that last Whereas clause:
WHEREAS, We demand fair and equal treatment under the law for all and that our system of justice demands that we investigate crimes in search of perpetrators vs. investigating citizens in search of crimes for political gain;”
They clearly don’t actually want any such thing as “fair and equal treatment” for Trump, or they would be all in favor of Trump facing his accusers in court the way that any one of us would if credibly accused of a crime with sufficient evidence for a Grand Jury (probable cause standard) and a charging prosecutor to submit an indictment to a court for trial (sufficient evidence for a reasonable finder of fact to find guilt beyond a reasonable doubt based solely on the evidence submitted to them). They hate the very idea that their dear leader might be treated the same as any other citizen of these United States.
Just how much they don’t mean it is encapsulated nicely in their next clause, “that our system of justice demands that we investigate crimes in search of perpetrators vs. investigating citizens in search of crimes for political gain”. They think that our system of justice demands “we” (they actually mean just themselves and other Republican extremist partisans, of course) investigate “investigating citizens in search of crimes for political gain“. That, my friends, is a threat against every citizen – public official or not – who participates in the prosecution of Trump’s crimes. This is rank intimidation against the Grand Jury members, potential petit jurors in the trial, the investigating police agencies, court staff, as well as the prosecutorial offices and judges involved. That is what I would term – fairly, I think – utterly deplorable.
Every self-respecting conservative who lives in Maricopa County and has considered themselves a supporter of the Republican Party now has some serious soul searching to do. Are you a conservative who supports American core values of the rule of law, respect for our system of justice, and the primacy of our democratic form of government, or do you just support the GOP no matter what? Because you can’t do both now. You have to choose. And there is only one thing to do if you choose real conservatism: vote Democratic until the GOP returns to your values.
The Democratic Party is now the only party standing for those conservative principles. Both parties once agreed on these ground rules: no longer. The Maricopa County Republican leadership has poublically committed the Republican party to support Trump’s lawless behavior and has threatened to ‘investigate’ everyone involved in the prosecution of his alleged crimes.
It’s now your duty to make it plain what side you are on: silence signifies assent.
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These dunderheads go out of their way to lend truth to the tired cliche of how Repugs don’t fall in love, they fall in line. No matter how twisted and treacherous the line is.