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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Scott Perry- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-07-28

We opined this time in 2021 how it was pretty clear how far gone Scott Perry is that he would cite “replacement theory” as if he was sitting in for Tucker Carlson on the floor of the House…. that Perry was clinging to Donald Trump like a life preserver keeping him afloat when in reality Trump is a loadstone tied around his neck.We had no idea how true that was… because since we last checked in, things have heated up around Rep. Perry that there became the serious possibility of seeing him brought up on charges of seditious conspiracy. There are many avenues that Donald Trump explored to subvert American democracy, and what level of coup he was willing to attempt. While the attack on the Capitol itself was the most glaring one… there was also spreading lies about election fraud, and frivolous lawsuits to overturn the results to consider.



But one of the more devious and sinister plans was thought up by Scott Perry, and that was to install an absolute sycophantic toady named Jeffrey Clark as the new head of the Dept. of Justice, and Clark would investigate all the “voter fraud” that people as relatively scrupulous as Bill Barr (low bar to clear, pardon the pun), thought were “bulls***”, because they WERE.



But Perry surmised that if Trump seized control of the Dept. of Justice, he could get its backing to help reject American democracy and work towards installing him as an authoritarian dictator for life. The last vestiges of honor and service over at the DOJ threatened a mass walkout that would blow up in Trump’s face, and Clark was humiliated to his face by other high-ranking DoJ officials and Trump lawyers at the White House.



For his part in coming up with the plan to install an unqualified catspaw within our government’s top law enforcement organization, Perry ended up getting a subpoena from the Jan. 6th committee, the FBI seized his cellphone in August of 2022, and it is now known that he made hundreds of phone calls to people within the executive branch of the government regarding the attempts to reinstall Donald Trump as dictator in late 2020, including Trump himself, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, and the worst lawyer to ever weigh in on White House business, Jeffrey Clark.



Whether or not he can win re-election again in 2024 when there will be, in theory, even higher Democratic turnout might be irrelevant. Scott Perry could end up in a prison jumper if Special Counsel Jack Smith drops indictments for Jan. 6th on Donald Trump and everyone, including Perry, before he has the chance.

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