AOC to Johnson and Trump: 'If You Don't Want to Be Prosecuted for Crimes, Don't Do Crimes'

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"Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York ripped into Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Friday night for saying that Republican control of Congress is the only thing keeping President Donald Trump from being held to account for his numerous scandals and abuses of power during his second term in the White House."

"Asked about comments made by the Speaker earlier in the day, Ocasio-Cortez told MS-NOW’s Jen Psaki that Johnson characterized future efforts to investigate or accountability for possible misdeeds or corruption by Trump, his family members, or members of his administration 'as though it’s some partisan witch hunt,' she said. 'But if you don’t want to be prosecuted for crimes, don’t do crimes.' "

"Ocasio-Cortez, often referred to by her initials AOC, had been asked about remarks Speaker Johnson made at the annual summit of the right-wing Faith and Freedom Coalition, a group with close ties to Trump and the Christian nationalist movement that supports him."

“ 'If we lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats—y’all, impeachment isn’t even the real concern,' Johnson told the crowd. 'They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they’ll go after the president’s family, the Cabinet, his donors, friends, half of you in this room will be targeted.' "

"The House speaker added, 'I run the protection program. We’ll take care of you, OK?' "

Continued at link:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-mike-johnson-protection-prograrm

[Blue Owl]

1. Instead, they are getting away with reversing the justice system

Wealthy criminals run free while those who do the right and good thing are incarcerated in private prisons from which they profit from

[Farmer-Rick]

3. The end result of

Of capitalism gone wild. Capitalism promotes criminality.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Now THAT's LEADERSHIP!

A woman with vision and the guts to speak the truth.

Now, where’s everybody else?

[Ponietz]

4. "Gimme the damn ball!"

It isn’t difficult to spot the best players on the field.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Absolutely.

I seldom quote him, but Tweety hijacked the phrase: “Politics is hardball.”

In less than two years, most all of the progress made since Appomattox has vanished, largely IN SILENCE.

[twodogsbarking]

5. Excellent.

[Picaro]

6. This highlights one of the Constitution's worst failures

Mike Johnson openly notes that impeachment is nothing to worry about—because no one will ever be convicted in the Senate.

The 2/3’s majority required for conviction was supposed to encourage stability, sound judgement, and political restraint. In actuality, requiring a super majority meant and means that conviction is effectively impossible.

So, Johnson is not in the least concerned about impeachment, but about the public hearings and Congressional investigations. Those will do damage to the apocalyptic death cult the GOP has become.

That he’s scared of because he won’t be Speaker anymore and won’t be able to adjourn Congress whenever something comes up that the Toddler-In-Chief doesn’t want the public to hear about.

[Fil1957]

8. "The House speaker added, 'I run the protection program. We'll take care of you, OK?' " Really? Why doesn't

Mike Johnson just come out and say "We have a bunch of crooks in the GOP and if we lose the midterms a lot of them are going to jail"?

That's what the midterms are about according to Republicans, apparently -- keeping criminals out of jail.