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The GOP fires up its vengeance 2024 tour
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In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction, the “R” in the Republican brand might just as well stand for revenge.
In the wake of former President Donald Trump’s felony conviction, the “R” in the Republican brand might just as well stand for revenge. From Trump on down, members of the GOP are launching furious plans to prosecute Democrats at every turn, especially if the man who lost the White House in 2020 can win it back this fall. Trump nodded to the idea when asked about his conviction, which he has persistently, and with no evidence, blamed on President Joe Biden’s administration. “It’s a terrible, terrible path that they are leading us to,” Trump said on the conservative channel Newsmax, “and it’s very possible that it’s going to have to happen to them.” Trump’s allies have taken up that drumbeat with fury. “I’m quite frankly pissed off,” Texas Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson told Newsmax. “President Biden should be ready,” Jackson said, “because on January 20 of next year when he’s former President Joe Biden … I’m going to encourage all of my colleagues and everybody that I have any influence over as a member of Congress to aggressively go after the president and his entire family, his entire crime family, for all of the misdeeds that are out there right now.”
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Texas executed Ramiro Gonzales by lethal injection on Wednesday for a 2001 murder, the state Department of Criminal Justice said, following unsuccessful appeals to the US Supreme Court that argued, in part, he should have been ineligible for the death penalty under state law because he is no longer dangerous.
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