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Sidney shore does lay it out. I put a tiny little toe in the ocean with this post:

Watch for more of this stuff -- Philadelphia District Attorney Krasner impeached amid violent crime spike
[...]Most certainly no major bills will be passed. Republicans will spend their time throwing wedge issues at Democrats and building mistrust of the system. Since Jordan is one of the most rabid of Trump people obviously he will waste everybody's time and money running Benghazi-type shows.
[...]Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House
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And this one

Watch for more of this stuff -- Philadelphia District Attorney Krasner impeached amid violent crime spike
P - "Watch Obama's closing message to voters in Philadelphia CNN[
"Respect, common decency, telling the truth, believing in science, the idea that every vote should count, and the idea that the person with the most
votes wins...nothing to do with political correctness or being too woke... fundamental values...honesty fairness, opportunity, hard work""
P - With this stuff -- Related:: [...]Judiciary Republicans hint at investigation into FBI, DOJ if they retake the House
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P - Possibly somewhat related: Trump is out for vengeance — and to protect himself from prosecution
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All here -- https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170482814

Just added emphasis there as Sidney sets Trump's vengeance plan out clearly.

Now back yours

Sidney plunges headfirst and blessedly naked into the cold, cold waters of Trump's "denier" House. In reading
his article you gotta think he was muttering to himself, " Lay it all out, Sidney. Hang it all out for others to see!"

Ok, to out now some of your - Trump is now effectively in control of the US House of Representatives

Sidney Blumenthal

Kevin McCarthy will be a mere stooge – that is, until he’s replaced by someone even more Trumpist
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McCarthy surely knows that the cruel Republican culture war is hypocrisy. When it comes to Trump’s handpicked senate candidate from Georgia, Herschel Walker – who is facing a runoff election with senator Raphael Warnock, and who allegedly paid for girlfriends’ abortions, allegedly abandoned both his legal and illegitimate children, and allegedly engaged in violence against his ex-wife – McCarthy has maintained radio silence.

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"McCarthy will obediently issue blanket approval for House committees to launch a thousand inquisitions
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His passivity in the face of vice is the price he willingly pays to sustain the virtuous sheen of the culture war. While he advances himself through each cowardly act, his performance does not inspire confidence from his own cohort, who see through the cellophane man. He must dance faster and faster just to stand still.

McCarthy will obediently issue blanket approval for House committees to launch a thousand inquisitions. Democratic groups engaged in voter turnout efforts will be investigated. Democratic attorneys who defend voting rights will be targeted. Progressive nonprofits involved with elections and criminal justice will have their nonprofit status challenged. Secretaries of state who have frustrated Trump election deniers will be pressured. Biden administration officials, from national security to homeland security, will be subpoenaed to scandalize their policies. Military and humanitarian aid to Ukraine, already assailed by the Republican pro-Putin caucus, will be squeezed. No “blank check”, McCarthy has said.

Corporations and banks that invest in green energy, or adopt diversity and equity policies, will be pressured. Tech platforms will be hauled before the klieg lights for depositions on alleged political discrimination against conservatives, to intimidate them into following the example of Elon Musk, who attended McCarthy’s private political retreat in Wyoming this past August. (“Elon believes in freedom. Elon is an entrepreneur. Such an American success story,” McCarthy said .. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/3605110-elon-musk-featured-at-kevin-mccarthys-gop-retreat-in-wyoming/ .)

The subpoenas will fly. And, quite predictably, the House will manufacture a conflict over the federal budget to shut down the government in an attempt to enforce its draconian policies, as Republicans have done before as a tactic against Bill Clinton in 1995 to 1996 and against Barack Obama in 2013.

Then the House may impeach President Biden – and possibly Vice-President Kamala Harris, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, among others. The writer Barton Gellman recently laid out .. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/republicans-investigate-possible-impeachment-joe-biden/671859/ .. the coming strategy in the Atlantic. “McCarthy wants to oversee subpoenas and Benghazi-style hearings to weaken the president ahead of the 2024 election, not issue a call for Biden’s removal,” Gellman writes. “But there is little reason to think that McCarthy can resist the GOP’s impulse to impeach once it gathers strength.”


‘Jim Jordan released a dense 1,050-page compendium of conspiracy theories – 1,050 rabbit holes he promises to go down.’ Photograph: Michael Conroy/AP

Gellman further quotes Ted Cruz, from the senator’s recent podcast, pressing for Biden’s impeachment, “whether it’s justified or not”, as payback for Trump’s two impeachments. Like many Republicans, Cruz uses the word “weaponize” in the same way that Republicans have adopted the word “grooming” to accuse public school teachers of trying to turn children transgender. “The Democrats .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/democrats .. weaponized impeachment,” said Cruz. “They used it for partisan purposes to go after Trump because they disagreed with him. And one of the real disadvantages of doing that … is the more you weaponize it and turn it into a partisan cudgel, you know, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

After the January 6 committee is disbanded, the House judiciary committee will paint a bull’s eye on the Department of Justice (DoJ). The committee will act as Trump’s team for the defense. As the investigations circling Trump close in, from the fake electors’ scheme to the Mar-a-Lago archives theft, Trump and his allies will intensify their charges that the justice department is “weaponizing” the law. Jim Jordan will claim that the DoJ is unfairly persecuting Trump while failing to investigate properly the “Biden crime family”, only beginning with Hunter Biden.

The House Republicans will demand the internal documents and sources in every case the DoJ is pursuing about Trump. When the justice department refuses to hand over materials from ongoing investigations, subpoenas will be issued for them, and when the DoJ invariably declines – because to comply would violate the law and all of its protocols – contempt charges will be filed against attorney general Merrick Garland, his deputy, Lisa Monaco, and individual prosecutors. The dismissal of those contempt filings will have no bearing on the House proceeding to the impeachment of Garland, Monaco, et al.

The point for the Republicans will not necessarily be to remove Garland, which would be highly unlikely, but instead to discredit any justice department case against Trump as politically motivated, to portray Trump as the victim, and to rouse the Republican base. Most importantly, the judiciary committee interference would attempt to severely cripple the investigations.

If this sounds like conjecture, consider that Jim Jordan wrote to Merrick Garland .. https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Garland-re-responsiveness-politicization.pdf .. and the FBI director, Christopher Wray .. https://republicans-judiciary.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/2022-11-02-JDJ-to-Wray-re-responsiveness.pdf , on 2 November – a week before the election and under the letterhead of the judiciary committee, as if he were already the chairman – demanding information and sources in current cases involving Trump, extremist militias and far-right figures.
President Donald Trump is embroiled in multiple legal battles that cast a shadow over his reelection run.

Trump is running for president again – but these legal battles might stand in the way
Read more > https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/nov/15/donald-trump-us-president-run-legal-battles

In his lengthy list of requests, he asked for “all documents and communications between or among employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of Justice, and the executive office of the president referring or relating to classifying or reclassifying domestic violent extremism cases, for the period of January 1 2020, to the present”; “all documents and communications referring or relating to the decision to seek a search warrant for President Trump’s residence”; and “all documents and communications referring or relating to the use of confidential human source(s) in connection with the search of President Trump’s residence”. Jordan followed up by releasing a dense 1,050-page compendium of conspiracy theories – 1,050 rabbit holes he promises to go down.

If McCarthy exhibits the slightest queasiness, commits another of his trademark gaffes that reveal too much of the truth, or is simply not militant enough for Trump, his speakership will become unstable. The jackals already surround him, and there is a ready alternative waiting in the wings to replace him. Elise Stefanik, adored by Trump, seamlessly transmogrified from moderate to Maga, emerging as Trump’s defender during his first impeachment. “A new Republican star is born,” Trump tweeted. The 38-year-old congresswoman’s ambition is a raging fever.

Your - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/nov/17/donald-trump-kevin-mccarthy-republicans-house-of-representatives