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GOP Civil War Gets Way Hot As Newt Gingrich Engages [1]

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Date: 2023-08-15

Jack Smith has Specially Prosecuted the FPOTUS up to the indictment stage three times this year but it took the sight of an African American WOMAN dragging his sorry name into court action last night to inspire righteous rage in the heart of former, disgraced Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich.

“Congress should cut off funding for SC Jack Smith’s investigation.” That was Gingrich’s call to action last night on FOX as a District Attorney in the State of Georgia who was clearly not Jack Smith indicted 16 people including an ex-president on a host of notorious, nasty charges including the RICO Act and forgery. This was by far the most satisfying list of crimes and criminals indicted this Insurrection season and Special Prosecutor Jack Smith did not have anything to do with it

I cropped the white guy out of the picture because Newt and his audience were only seeing prosecutors of color last night.

Understand that to cut off funding for Jack Smith’s investigations the man who was chased from the Speakership in shame wants House Republicans to shut down the government in September. He should know better than anyone else the damage a shutdown will inflict on his Republican Party. Romantics like to think he resigned from the shame of banging his own staffer, 25 years his junior, but no, it was the shutdown, the impeachment and the resultant pain at the polls in 1998 that took his scalp. It took the sight of true sons and daughters of his beloved South dragging his spirit animal to justice last night and jail soon enough, to make his kettle-bomb blow.

Meanwhile, far below the radar another powerful force within the Republican Civil War issued an equal and opposite call for action.

Washington (CNN) — Nearly a dozen Republican-appointed former judges and high-ranking federal senior legal officials on Monday endorsed the January 2, 2024, trial date proposed by special counsel Jack Smith in his 2020 election interference criminal case against Donald Trump. The amicus brief was submitted to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia as a project of the Democracy 21 Education Fund in the January 6, 2021, case against Trump.

An Amicus Brief is an editorial tool wielded by very influential members of the Judicial fraternity. The list of signatories to this flaming call to hasten justice is a honor roll of former Republican legal icons. These are not names that would get celebrated in the pages of The Daily Kos but they are all heroes of the conservative Right. They reflect and represent the Federalist Society, the Star Chamber that enforces America’s class code and they are calling for the head of their former King. Importantly, they want that head as soon as possible. Why?

You might want to order pizza and beer ahead of March 5th 2024 because by the 6th the GOP Presidential nominee will be in the bag.

In an effort to have some primary influence on the largest economy in the world, the 5th largest economy in the world, California, moved it’s primary to March making this upcoming Super Tuesday, the Superest Tuesday EVER. Judging by all current polling if you’re name is Trump and you are not already in prison you will probably clinch the nomination by 9PM Pacific Standard Time that same day.

With the basketful of deplorables composing today’s Grand Old Party being in prison might not be enough to scotch a Presidential campaign but naive old barristers can dream.

Currently there are only three trials on the 2024 Trump schedule. A civil rape case in January won’t land him in jail and will probably give him a bump with the MAGA bros. Manhattan DA Melvin Bragg is next up in March, after Super Tuesday, plus it’s a black Manhattan DA and financial crimes, another bump in the polls for the Donald. If Judge Cannon deigns to keep her June trial date with Jack Smith she might as well be trying Jefferson Davis in 1866, only Jefferson Davis may be the Republican presumptive nominee.

The only hope for sober GOP faithful is a fever-dream scenario in which Donald John Trump is found guilty of high crimes tantamount to treason in court by February 2024. Then a coalition of billionaires can mount a heroic effort behind a perfect Republican candidate… Ron DeSantis, Greg Youngkin… Vivek Ramiswarmey? I jest, there is no Robert Kennedy out there to save their souls… unless well maybe that is their hope? Keep in mind, fever-dreams.

Over the past 60+ years the Party of Lincoln has slowly boiled down into a noxious roux of mean and greed and opportunism that leaves no good options left on the menu. Reds are now fighting Reds with baseball bats and broken glass for the remnants. Hopefully the Federalist Factions will team with the Billionaires to keep the lights on in the US government but the Racist Rebel factions will not go quietly to the gallows. September will bring this horror show back to the Capital and Democrats need to carefully protect our Nation from the cross-fire. Watch Fani Willis and Jack Smith and take notes.

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